News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Little Rock man was sentenced for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded a government program intended help non-profits, municipal agencies, and disadvantaged businesses. Mark Gregory Jackson, Sr., 62, of Little Rock, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Brian S. Miller.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding a competitive oil and gas lease sale on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. The agency will offer 142 parcels for lease totaling 271,404.25 acres in Elko, Eureka, Nye and White Pine counties in Nevada. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wyoming County dentist, Christopher Bereznak, age 50, was convicted on Aug. 13, 2019, on eight counts of distributing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, after a seven-day trial before United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The Signal Mountain Summit Road and area in Grand Teton National Park have been temporarily closed due to reports of visitors feeding bears, and bears bluff charging park visitors and staff.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to Republican Federal Election Commission (FEC) commissioners blocking an investigation into the National Rifle Association (NRA) and donations from Russian nationals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Thursday, Aug. 16, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging Tower & Son Exterminating, Corp. and its owner Wilson Javier Torres-Rivera for violations of FIFRA, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: After 2006 deportation, defendant illegally reentered the United States with mutilated fingerprints in effort to evade law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JASON MICKEL ELCOCK, a/k/a “Prezzi," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 57 months in prison for engaging in a decade-long scheme to steal personal and financial information from tens...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: SAFFORD, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Safford Field Office is planning a road improvement project that will improve public access within the approximately 23,000 acre BLM managed Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA) and surrounding areas. The NCA is popular for a myriad...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident with an extensive criminal history of sex offenses against children was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison followed by lifetime supervision for possession of 550 images and 27 videos of child exploitation.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued a statement in response to a report by the State Department Office of Inspector General finding violations of personnel policies and political retribution against State Department employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Duke Jimenez, 36, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of production and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 42 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised released by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Aug. 1, 2019, Kevin Ryan Upshaw, Jr., 32, of San Carlos, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 30 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. Upshaw had previously pleaded guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Lazaro Juarez-Martinez, age 30, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty on Wednesday to illegal re-entry into the United States, and was immediately sentenced to time served (110 days in jail).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Byron Cobb, aka Tone, 39, of Cheektowaga, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell woman was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with embezzling approximately $182,000 from a veterinary hospital that employed her.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - 2nd Chance, PLLC (“2nd Chance"), a substance abuse treatment center in Lexington, has agreed to pay $200,494 to resolve civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits causing the submission of false or fraudulent claims to the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A seizure warrant and forfeiture complaint were unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that Oil Tanker “Grace 1," all petroleum aboard it and $995,000.00 are subject to forfeiture based on violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), bank fraud statute, and money laundering statute, as well as separately the terrorism forfeiture statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the conviction of Richard Bernard Grundy, III, a 30-year-old resident of Indianapolis, and four members of his drug trafficking organization on drug trafficking charges. The convictions resulted from a three-week trial that occurred in Evansville, Indiana. Grundy and his associates were convicted of all charges filed in the case.
