News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that SAMUEL RAY LUCK, age 41, a resident of Raceland, Louisiana, was convicted yesterday by a Federal Jury for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By State Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 2118, the Iran Ballistic Missiles and International Sanctions Enforcement Act. This bill would authorize sanctions on Iran’s development and financing of ballistic missile technology and address the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: The former Field Operations Manager for the City of Detroit Building Authority overseeing the demolition program in Detroit and a former executive at a Detroit demolition firm pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud in connection with the Detroit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - Billings resident Chad Allen Beres admitted methamphetamine trafficking and firearm crimes during a hearing today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Lied About Drug Use When He Purchased the Gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Mario Recinos, 27, a citizen of Guatemala last residing in Central Falls, R.I., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - SANDRA RAVEN, age 53, a resident of Laplace, Louisiana, pled guilty Thursday, April 4, 2019 to one count of wire fraud before the Honorable Barry W. Ashe. Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL RICHO, 37, of New Haven and formerly of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: EM Assistant Secretary Anne White recently viewed progress in EM’s cleanup at the Hanford Site. Following is her report on the trip.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Bogota, Colombia, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to violate federal robbery laws. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Scott W. Brady, FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Jones, and Chief Robert T. Amann of the Northern Regional Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ANTONIO CARLOS DE GODOY BUZANELI, 57, to 240 months in prison for his role in a $150 million investment fraud scheme involving Brazilian factoring. BUZANELI, who entered his guilty plea on April 19, 2018, was sentenced today...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Adams county, Ill., man, Skyler M. Durbin, 24, of Payson, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins for arraignment on child pornography charges. An initial trial date was set for June 4, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough. Durbin was ordered to remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND - Jimmie Powers, 67 years old, of Monticello, Indiana, was sentenced, on April 2, 2019, by District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on his plea of guilty to health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today discussed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on “Squawk Box" on CNBC and “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas" on Bloomberg TV ahead of the Committee’s third hearing so far this year on drug pricing. Five PBM executives from Cigna Corporation, CVS Health and CVS Caremark, Humana, OptumRx and Prime Therapeutics will serve as witnesses. Video of the interviews can be found below.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank joined the Department of Justice’s observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A woman was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison for defrauding the state’s unemployment insurance program out of more than one-half million dollars by using stolen identities to submit dozens of bogus claims for “employees" who supposedly worked at sham companies.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of U.S. Rep. Ross Spano (R-FL) from today’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit hearing entitled, “Every Life Counts: Improving the Safety of our Nation’s Roadways":
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Sparks, Nevada, man who posed online as a teenage boy to coerce a teenage girl to send nude photos of herself to him was sentenced Monday to 12 and a half years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on April 1, 2019, Catalina Taboada (age 47), of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal court to 21 months of imprisonment for willfully preparing false income tax returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2). Taboada agreed to pay $571,800 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
