News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Four Texas Men Charged with Bribery Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 5, 2019, United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo sentenced Mario M. Valentine, age 35, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, to 64 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, for money laundering and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- Henry A. Bruce, formerly of Farrell, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced again in federal court to 10 years (120 months) in prison on for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) revamped “Medicare for All" plan...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today one of the largest health care fraud schemes in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and the Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James Moody today sentenced Okechuwku Desmond Amadi (39, Garland, TX), a/k/a Desmond Amadi, to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering. As part of Amadi’s sentence, the court also entered a forfeiture order of $833,625 against him, representing the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct, and ordered Amadi to pay $1,358,500 in restitution to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Warren County, New Jersey, man has been convicted of receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Mike Kelly (R-PA), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA), the top Republican on the Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), and bipartisan members of the Oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Guillermo Torres-Acevedo, 23, of Batavia, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transporting a minor across state lines for sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two Corpus Christi residents have been ordered to federal prison following their conviction for conspiracy to sell crystal methamphetamine and using firearms to facilitate that crime, announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will. R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Ray Green, 30, and his girlfriend at the time, Julie De Los Rios, 28, pleaded guilty Jan. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing a false tax return.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of Transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Arthur Greaves, Jr., 19, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in District Court before Judge Curtis Gomez, to possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Former Lake Charles Police Officer Indicted for Using Excessive Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An MCI-Cedar Junction inmate pleaded guilty on Monday, April 8, 2019, in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The twelfth defendant to plead guilty in a large international counterfeit credit and debit card fraud scheme was sentenced Tuesday to eight years and two months in federal prison for his involvement in the multimillion dollar conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Christopher McCarty, age 44, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, and a fine of $7,400.00, for one...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Democrats are releasing their plans to effectively eliminate private health insurance in favor of a national, single-payer system that would take away personal choice and freedom -- further expanding Washington’s control over Americans’ health care decisions. The Democrat plan would make private and employer-sponsored health coverage illegal, forcing Americans into a one-size-fits-all, government-run health care program.
