News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Everett, Washington, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s ICE raid in Mississippi...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve will return the Denali Park Road to normal operation beginning at 5 a.m. on Friday, August 9, 2019. Crews have spent the day assessing various critical points along the road and believe the road is in a stable condition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Puerto Rico man was charged today by a federal grand jury in Worcester with cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to use explosives to kill and injure others.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - Bobby Dewayne Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national residing in Lawrence was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office is seeking volunteers to assist at the American River Water Education Center.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: LIBERTY ISLAND, NY: The National Park Service (NPS) announced today the release of the food and beverage, retail, and event services prospectus at Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. The prospectus is for a 10-year concession contract opportunity and is available on the NPS website at.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Christopher Kauffman, 37, of Summerville, South Carolina was charged in a criminal Information with filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Woodbridge man with straw purchasing two firearms in November 2016 and then giving those firearms to a Boston man.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Today, officials from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, the United States Attorney's Office, Middle District of Louisiana, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and many other local, state and federal partners, convened in Baton Rouge, LA to initiate the National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gary T. Holliday, 50, a former training supervisor and policy analyst for the District of Columbia Department of Human Services (DHS), was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme in which he defrauded the agency of more than $400,000 in temporary assistance benefits meant for needy District residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Morgan County man who faked his death pled guilty today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Rod Owens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man who traveled to the Philippines and had sex with minor females there was sentenced to over 84 years in prison today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced FRANCISCO GONZALES-DIAZ, 29, of Mexico on July 20, 2019 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Gonzales-Diaz was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days to allow for deportation proceedings. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigated this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man who traveled to the Philippines and had sex with minor females there was sentenced to over 84 years in prison today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Chavarria possessed guns in furtherance of his drug trafficking, storing one gun under a 3 year-old’s bed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Caddo Parish School Board member pleaded guilty today for his role in an anabolic steroid distribution scheme. Mike Mosura, 44, of Bossier City, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Today, a Sherman Oaks, California native, Robert Shapiro, 61, was sentenced to a total of a total of twenty-five years in in prison by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga in Miami, Florida after previously pleading guilty to orchestrating and leading a massive investment fraud scheme, in which more than 7,000 victims suffered financial losses, as well as tax evasion. Shapiro is the former owner, president, and CEO of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC (“Woodbridge").
