News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. retail trade sales increased for the entire retail trade sector (NAICS 44-45) by 4.0 percent from $4,851.8 billion in 2016 to $5,046.9 billion in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that NICHOLAS ROTUNDA ALLEN, age 39, an inmate in Jimmy Autry State Prison in Pelham, Georgia, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 371, for his role in perpetrating a grand jury fraud scam and victimizing a resident of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: El Dorado County Couple Indicted for Tax Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released today draft changes to the Groundwater Banking Guidelines for Central Valley Project Water. The guidelines, originally published in 2014, outline when Reclamation may approve banking and recovering of Central Valley Project water outside of a contractor’s service area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Deepak Deshpande (41, Dublin, California) to life in federal prison for enticing a minor to engage in sexual conduct, and 30 years’ imprisonment for production of child pornography. Deshpande had pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: The Defendants Defrauded Victims, Some of Whom Were Elderly, of more than $5.7 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig, a Washington-based lawyer, with making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine from the Department of Justice, National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit (FARA Unit).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Thursday, April 10, 2019, Paul Eugene Thomas, 38, of Portland, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and distribute marijuana and maintaining drug involved premises, and one count of money laundering for his role in a vast conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Portland to Virginia and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana remind all Hoosiers that the deadline for filing federal income tax returns is Monday, April 15. Although the filing season is nearing the end, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division work year round to protect the integrity of our nation’s tax system by investigating and prosecuting individuals who violate the tax laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Former CEO Convicted of Defrauding Food and Drug Administration and Distributing Adulterated Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Two former executives of a Springfield, Missouri-based charity and a former Arkansas state senator have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a multi-million-dollar public corruption scheme that involved embezzlement, bribes and illegal campaign contributions for elected public officials...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Saheed Jamal Grant, 21, of Asheville, was sentenced to 180 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the sentencing.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Improvements are coming to make parts of River View Trail more accessible.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig, a Washington-based lawyer, with making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine from the Department of Justice, National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit (FARA Unit).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for aiding and abetting the commission of two armed bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ERNEST TERRELL MCKOY, 31, of Dunn, NC, to 144 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ERNEST TERRELL MCKOY, 31, of Dunn, NC, to 144 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY--In observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. today recognized victims of crime and an organization that works tirelessly to assist those who are victimized. Honored today were.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Eric Dewayne Leak, 41, of Raleigh, N.C. pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in connection with a bribery scheme involving college athletes.
