News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Norfolk man with the armed robbery of a Sprint Store in Colonial Heights.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN LAMBERT, a/k/a “Eric Pope," pled guilty this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud consumers of legal advice and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd Robinson (619) 546-7994 and Kareem Salem (619) 546-8904.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: FBI Releases New Videos, Announces $20,000 Reward for Information About Arsons at Area Chabad Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Kesselring Site Environmental Remediation Services, Demolition and Removal Services of Facilities (Contaminated), Waste Management Services, and Regulatory Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for taking pornographic photos and video of a 7-year-old victim.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Florida - Master Maintenance Inc. has been recognized by Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) employment compliance program called IMAGE at a recent ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Adam Gordon (619) 546-6720 and Matthew Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) sent a previously unreported letter to Natalie Jaresko, executive director of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), on Aug. 2 urging the Board to investigate BDO Puerto Rico, the firm contracted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Garnett James Lloyd, Jr. age 48, of Morganton, North Carolina, was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to a count charging violation of 18 USC Section 2261A(2)(b), Cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Charles Elegalam, age 31, formerly of Washington, D.C., currently an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), Waymart, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on August 5, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to possession of contraband by inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Innocence Lost National Initiative and Operation Independence Day 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: NIAGARA FALLS, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents TONIGHT Tuesday, August 6th at the Annual Crime Night Out sponsored by the Niagara Falls Block Club Council to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event. The event will be held at St Paul's Lutheran Church at the corner of 18th and Cleveland in Niagara Falls.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will speak and answer questions at the National Press Club’s Headliners Luncheon. Chairman Cummings will discuss the Committee’s investigations to root out waste, fraud and abuse, and address issues that matter most to the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Department of Justice announced today the FBI-led recovery or identification of 103 child victims and the arrest of 67 sex traffickers through Operation Independence Day. This initiative - a revamping of a previously successful program - was executed during the month of July through 161 operations conducted nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Jabari Monson, 32, of Merced, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute controlled substances, and Saudia Monson, 39, also of Merced, pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Travel Act, using the mail and internet to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We are extremely concerned by the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") inadequate response to the recent abrupt closures of multiple institutions of higher education. Three major collapses of for-profit college chains, including those owned by Education Corporation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN BROWN, a/k/a “BI," pled guilty today to participating in a murder in connection with a drug crime for his role in the Aug. 2, 2009, murder of Derrick Moore in the Bronx. BROWN pled before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: (DICKINSON, N.D.) - A volunteer for the Bureau of Land Management North Dakota Field Office was found deceased Sunday at the Schnell Recreation Area near Richardton. The Stark County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the unattended death, but the preliminary findings are consistent with a lightning strike.
