News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Charges Arise Out of Scheme to Defraud Bank in Deming, N.M.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 20 New York counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Albany, Cattaraugus, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, Montgomery, Orange, Otsego, Rockland, Schenectady, Schoharie, Steuben, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: A Wisconsin woman pleaded guilty today to a national-security crime related to her support of a foreign terrorist organization, announced United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Yesterday, a doctor who previously worked in Stuart, Florida, was sentenced to prison after having been convicted by a federal jury of committing repeated acts of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that on April 12, 2019, Kendarius Devan Lucious of Citronelle, Alabama was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person before Chief Judge Kristi DuBose. Lucious is a felon...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canadian national pleaded guilty today to five wire fraud charges for defrauding investors in a $5 million Ponzi scheme in which he pretended to be a successful beverage entrepreneur with close ties to well-known business executives and NBA stars such as Stephen Curry and Shaquille O’Neal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a physical security school has been indicted by a federal grand jury for defrauding a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program dedicated to rehabilitating military veterans with service-connecting disabilities and for making false statements to the VA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Antoine D. Johnson, Jr., 28, of East St. Louis, Illinois, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Johnson had been charged in a federal indictment with one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2019 and faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Oscar Ivan Salazar-Avalos (Salazar), 29, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to six years and nine months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is excited to host John and Brenda Nejedlo of GeoAstroRV as monument volunteers from April 30-May 28, 2019. John and Brenda are travelling the country in their RV and volunteering their astronomy knowledge at national park sites across the Midwest. GeoAstroRV will give both daytime and nighttime astronomy programs every day, weather permitting, during their stay at Homestead National Monument of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A total of nineteen individuals have been indicted in two separate indictments for conspiracy to distribute Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Marijuana in the Western District of Tennessee. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited UHS of Denver Inc. - doing business as Highlands Behavioral Healthcare System and based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado - for failing to protect employees from violence in the workplace. The company faces penalties of $11,934.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - As the anniversary of the 2018 Kīlauea eruption nears, staff at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continue efforts to repair and reopen trails and roads, assess and monitor unsafe areas, and welcome the public back to a landscape forever changed by last year’s epic volcanic activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: (San Juan, PR) - The US Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, the PR Department of Family Affairs, the Office of the Ombudsman for the Elderly and AARP Puerto Rico, have joined efforts to create a media campaign to educate the general public on the prevention and reporting of elder abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brittany Baker, of Elk Garden, West Virginia, has admitted to her involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Texas Couple Each Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Forced Labor and Related Offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park (NHP) is seeking applicants to fill two expired seats on the Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission. The Commission, composed of seven volunteer citizens appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, represents the public and works collaboratively with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: WOMAN FACING FEDERAL DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGE ARISING.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a ribbon-cutting today on its newest and largest solar energy array. The nearly 15,000 panels cover the equivalent of 11 football fields and are expected to produce more than 8 million kilowatt-hours of energy in the first year, accounting for about 4 percent of the campus’s energy consumption.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeannie Irene Stegner, age 52, of Valley View, Texas, was sentenced to 1 year probation and ordered to pay $1000.00 in restitution for Theft From Gaming Establishments On Indian Lands, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1167(a). The charges arose from an investigation by the Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
