News from April 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and a group of colleagues in introducing legislation to prevent thousands of people from losing their health care coverage after a federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s Association Health Plans...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A three-time deported illegal alien from Mexico, previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter, pleaded guilty Monday to illegally entering the U.S. for a fourth time.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be hosting its popular annual pruning workshop on Friday, May 3 in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Kelderhouse farm, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. Turn onto Port Oneida Road and follow the signs to the workshop site.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Bobby J. Woods, 50, of Stillwater, MN, and Alan Johnson, 64, of Collinsville, IL, were sentenced to a year and a day in prison and probation, respectively, for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. They appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry. In addition to the sentences, the Court ordered them to pay restitution in the amount of $746,293.13.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: · Americans continue to see and feel the benefits of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities today announced criminal prosecutions against several Chicago-area defendants for a variety of alleged tax schemes. With the arrival of Tax Day, the prosecutions serve as a reminder that individual taxpayers are responsible for the contents of their own return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, the seventh and final defendant was sentenced in connection with a bribery conspiracy to smuggle narcotics and other contraband into New York City prisons. Carl Noel, a former correction officer employed by the New York City Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Jeffrey Bernard Harris, age 40, of Selma, Alabama, was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months this week after earlier pleading guilty to one count charging a violation of 18 USC Section 922(g)(1), Prohibited Person (felon) in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -A 49-year-old Mexican national has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to keep Wichita police from investigating illegal poker games, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for sex trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On April 15, 2019, Chevez McCray, 35, of Morristown, Tennessee, and Hector Mendez-Sales a/k/a Oswaldo Sanchez, 34, a citizen of Guatemala residing in Talbott, Tennessee, were sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Jimmy Davis, 41, of St. Croix, has been found guilty after a jury trial in the St. Croix District Court of one count of Possession of Cocaine and one count of Aggravated Assault and Battery, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. The jury trial lasted a total of five days, commencing on April 8, 2019, and concluding on April 12, 2019. An additional charge was dismissed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Seven Individuals of Castillo’s Drug Trafficking Organization Have Already Been Convicted.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Oregon District, Upper Willamette Field Office will hold a public meeting on the Shotcash Timber Sale Project on May 9, 2019. It will be conducted at the Mohawk Valley Community Grange, located at 93727 Marcola Road in Marcola, OR, from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Haitham Eid Habash, aka Eddie Habash, 55, of Hawthorne, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for his role in supplying synthetic drugs to wholesale internet drug traffickers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Habash was also ordered to forfeit over $193,000 in proceeds derived from drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Former Co-Owner of Long Island Company Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid of Millions of Dollars for Medical Supplies Never Provided to Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Chris Minarcin, 34, formerly of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 76 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine and possessing over 500 grams of cocaine with the intent to distribute the drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEV. - A monthly study released today by the Bureau of Reclamation indicates this winter’s plentiful snowpack will benefit the Colorado River Basin through increased runoff to crucial reservoirs. With the improved hydrology, Lake Powell’s operation for water year 2019 will shift to a balancing release of up to 9.0 million acre-feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson, Nevada, resident who pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
