News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: A 66-year-old Seattle resident was indicted today by a grand jury for being a felon in possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. PARK QUAN was arrested July 29, 2019, after FBI agents investigating one of his roommates in connection with a data theft, served a search warrant on...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Jorge Delgado-Macias (44) to 40 months in federal prison for being an alien unlawfully in the United States in possession of a firearm and for aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Bilal Al-Rayanni, also known as Bilal Kassim Alawdi, 28, a Yemeni national and resident of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, was charged on August 8 in a two-count superseding indictment with providing and attempting to provide material support to Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as Ansar al-Shari’a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged a Columbus man with multiple crimes related to the sexual exploitation of minors. The man allegedly chatted with minor females on Instagram, Snapchat and other social media sites and requested that the girls send him videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CYNTHIA HOLDER, a former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB") Inspections Leader and KPMG Executive Director, was sentenced today to 8 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that RICHARD JOSEPHBERG was sentenced to 42 months in prison for evading hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for the calendar year 2011 and willfully failing to file tax returns for the calendar years 2013 through 2015. JOSEPHBERG previously pleaded guilty to these crimes before U.S. Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan, who imposed today’s sentence.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Mike Enzi (R-WY) praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal regarding the water quality certification process. The proposal would reform implementation of the water quality certification process under section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge Grant Mendenhall in coordination with LaPorte County Prosecutor John Lake announced that Michael Christianson, age 50, of LaPorte, Indiana was charged with transportation of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers who have not already done so to submit their 2018 OSHA Form 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces Recovery of Missing Child.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Hot Springs, Ark. - Hot Springs National Park has received finalized negative results of Legionella bacteria testing at the Quapaw Baths and Spa. Preliminary test results, which were reported in an earlier press release, suggested Legionella growth, resulting in a recommendation to close water services...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found James John Edwards (37, Brevard County) guilty of possession of child pornography. Edwards faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and must forfeit a computer and a one-terabyte hard drive that was used in the commission of the offense. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jerrod Doolin, 37, of Lancaster, Kentucky, was sentenced yesterday to 156 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Karen C. Caldwell for conspiracy to distribute heroin and carfentanyl and distribution of carfentanyl resulting in serious physical injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Recovered Crack, Cocaine, PCP, Fentanyl, and Firearms During Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) announced that Jorge Garrido, 45, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced by U.S...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Top foreign policy leaders in the Senate and House today called on the administration to reverse its reported plan to cancel more than $4 billion dollars in funding for American diplomacy and development efforts. Senators James E. Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Production of Child Pornography and Receipt of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: On Wednesday, August 21st, the National Park Service will host a volunteer service day at Montezuma Well to remove invasive plants. Johnson grass, a highly invasive species, has increasingly been a problem in the pasture at Montezuma Well. Our natural resources team will be removing the grass in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A federal criminal complaint was unsealed today charging two defendants with placing a hoax bomb at the Deschutes County Courthouse on July 29, 2019.
