News from August 2019
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) health advisory regarding the use of e-cigarettes...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE- Josias Garcia, 25, of Columbus, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on Tuesday to 16 years in federal prison for hostage taking, transportation of illegal aliens, smuggling, drug possession, firearms, and witness intimidation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gary Zeitvogel, 45, of Gates, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum term of 5 years imprisonment, a maximum term of 20 years imprisonment, a period of supervised release of at least 5 years and up to life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Winyontis Quavari Gordon (29, Ocala) to 16 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Gordon had pleaded guilty on May 16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury handed down an eight-count felony indictment charging Kenneth Morris with bank fraud and theft of union assets, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor Management Standards (DOL OLMS) Supervisory Investigator Kenric Michel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Jovan Demetrius Fredericks (40, Ocala) to 25 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. A federal jury had found Fredericks guilty of the offenses on March 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew Bulovsky, 25, Lodi, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to seven years in prison for distributing child pornography. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Bulovsky pleaded guilty to this offense on May 15, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: 10:00 a.m. Journey from Past to Present: Shoshonean People and Neighboring Tribes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem- talk presented by Laine Thom.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Christopher Helm, 30, of Kirkwood, MO, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison and lifetime supervised release for Possession of Child Pornography. Helm appeared before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Sacramento, Calif., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sex trafficking of six victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Samuel F. Baez, 37, of Haverhill, Massachusetts was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and possessing heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Colombian man was sentenced today to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Jonathan Hipps (34, Warner Robins, Georgia) guilty of mail fraud, concealment of material facts from a federal agency, and providing a false document to a federal agency. Hipps faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 4, 2019. Hipps had been indicted on Jan. 16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Tennessee health care executive was sentenced to 42 months in prison yesterday for her role in a $4.6 million kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based physician’s assistant was sentenced to seven years in prison today for his role in a scheme to unlawfully distribute prescriptions for thousands of oxycodone pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Behzad Pourghannad pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to export carbon fiber from the United States to Iran between 2008 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice is pleased to announce the fifth expansion of the Tribal Access Program (TAP), a program providing federally recognized tribes with enhanced ability to access and exchange data with the national crime information databases for both criminal justice and non-criminal justice purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: David Sommers, 64, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, three years of supervised release including six months of home detention, and to pay $250,000 in restitution for trafficking protected turtles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Texas woman who managed aspects of an international program at an Ohio-based adoption agency pleaded guilty today for her role in a scheme to corruptly facilitate adoptions of Ugandan children through bribing Ugandan officials and defrauding U.S. adoptive parents and the U.S. Department of State.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: LABELLE, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Twins Twins LLC for exposing employees to amputations at the company's facility in Labelle, Florida. The tortilla company faces $81,682 in penalties.
