News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by providing military equipment parts that were not what he had contracted to provide and illegally accessing technical information because he was not a United States citizen, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JODI ZILS GAGNE, 43, of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $169,000 from individuals for whom she served as a court-appointed conservator.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) raising additional questions about a secret Memorandum of Understanding executed with Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). The Chairman executed the MOU unilaterally and did not first obtain approval for this measure through a vote of the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BRYAN BOARDMAN, a/k/a “Boon," 25, for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of two individuals. FRANKLIN JACKSON, a/k/a “Frankie," 23, also pleaded guilty on April 18, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin. Both defendants entered their guilty pleas before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to 40 years’ imprisonment for convictions of producing child pornography and receiving child pornography online, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Ontko, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Eagle Rock resident was arrested this morning on federal fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a scheme that sold “ancient slag," a mining waste byproduct that supposedly contained precious metals.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally trafficking live water monitor lizards from the Philippines.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Transuranic waste processing involves characterization at the waste generator sites, transportation to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), waste handling, and emplacement 2,150 feet below the desert floor in the WIPP repository.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - For some residents of southeastern New Mexico, 20 years is too long ago to remember. They have always seen trucks heading to EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
Release: PITTSBURGH - A California man was the second traveler who was caught with a handgun by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) security checkpoint yesterday, April 22, hours after a West Virginia woman also was stopped with a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: MANHATTAN - DEA New York Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced today criminal charges against Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc., one of the 10 largest pharmaceutical distributors in the United States; Laurence...
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We write to express our serious concern over the Administration’s recent announcement that it will drastically cut U.S. assistance to the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This assistance supports efforts to address the challenging economic and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 16, 2019, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned an eight-count indictment against Damion Knox, 34, Darnez Turner, 30, Jeremiah Johnson, 23, and Papa Diop, 23, all of Detroit, Michigan; Joshua Cooper, 37, Virgil Crawford, 45, Jessica Bouvier, 30, Stephen Bouvier, 38, Jama...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016 (IRAA).
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: DALLAS, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) have renewed an alliance to help protect construction industry employees in the Rio Grande Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: An Oregon aluminum extrusion manufacturer has agreed to pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defense, and others to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a 19-year fraud scheme that included falsifying thousands of certifications for aluminum extrusions provided to hundreds of customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In our continued efforts to stop the supply of illegal drugs, make our communities safer and protect the lives of our children, DEA and our law enforcement partners constantly monitor drug trends, demand shifts and drug supply increases. As such, our criminal intelligence networks...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Cody Clines Adkins, 36, of Jackson was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to serve a total of 720 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography and possessing images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
