News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Vincent Graham, a/k/a “Shawn" and “Mac," 35, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock to 320 months in prison and six years of supervised release for sex trafficking by force, fraud ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding more than $6.6 million to fund research into improving disaster resilience. Eleven organizations will receive 12 grants to conduct research into how earthquakes, wind and fire affect the built environment to inform building designs, codes and standards to help those structures better withstand such hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, DE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two contractors - Enerfab Process Solutions & Fabricated Products Inc. and Industrial Services Group Inc. - for exposing employees to fall hazards after a fatal injury at a Delaware Port of Wilmington worksite in January 2019. The companies face $687,619 in penalties.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
Release: Summary:The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has added Scotland, a region within the United Kingdom, to its list of controlled risk regions for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). APHIS is taking this action after confirmation of classical ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced MIGUEL ANGEL GIERBOLINI, 27, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 84 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging CHRISTINA ROCHELLE ANGLIN, of Burnsville, North Carolina, with six counts of failure to collect and pay over employment taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: The former CEO of the Israel-based company Yukom Communications, a purported sales and marketing company, was found guilty yesterday for orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors in the United States and worldwide by fraudulently marketing approximately $145 million in financial instruments known as “binary options.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A former Toledo resident was indicted in federal court for allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 from her employer and using it to gamble and pay for electronics, airline tickets and other personal expenses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Pocatello Field Office (PFO) will renovate Goodenough Creek Campground between Sept. 3 and Dec. 2, 2019, to enhance recreational experiences for the public. The campground will be unavailable for use during this time period to ensure public safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, 32, a Romanian national, pled guilty yesterday to an indictment charging him with conspiring to steal bank customers’ account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) by using skimming devices that were secretly installed on bank ATMs in the Capital Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mobolaji Tina Stewart, 58, of Laurel, Maryland, pled guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which she caused the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program to be defrauded out of more than $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Files Notice to Seek the Death Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two brothers from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, were charged in federal district court with Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Theft of a Firearm was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC -Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Congressman Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) sent a follow-up letter to Administrator Howard Elliott of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) requesting an update on where the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Vincent Graham, a/k/a “Shawn" and “Mac," 35, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock to 320 months in prison and six years of supervised release for sex trafficking by force, fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant Collected More Than $400,000 Meant for Individuals And Families in Need of Temporary Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CLETUS JONES, 39, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BAYRON MARTINEZ-RODRIGUEZ, age 28, a native of Honduras, was sentenced on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 after previously pleading guilty to illegally using a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for four armed robberies of local businesses committed during a month-long crime spree.
