News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on various counts related to firearms stolen from the National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch (NFAD), United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Dalton L. Webster, age 27, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Aggravated Sexual Abuse. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Webster to 121 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Webster will begin a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - De’Asion Malik Coleman, 21, and Marquise Tyrelle Sharpe-Tall, 21, both of Charlotte, were sentenced to prison today on carjacking and firearms offenses, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Coleman to 130 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Sharpe-Tall was sentenced to 141 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Philip Hooge announced today the lifting of the 13-knot vessel speed limit at the entrance to the East Arm and around Sturgess Island. Recent surveys indicate that humpback whale concentrations have shifted away from the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Leader of Conspiracy to Illegally Unlock Cell Phones for Profit Extradited from Hong Kong.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) received a response from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig regarding Grassley’s May 2, 2019 inquiry on a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s report that found the IRS was inconsistent in determining willful noncompliance by IRS staff members.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Andres Fernandez (37, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Sobczyk, 43, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud, was sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $82,066. He also forfeited $33,991.41.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Vladimir Kuznetsov, a Russian national, with illegally exporting, attempting to export and conspiring to export firearm parts and accessories from the United States to individuals in Russia. Kuznetsov was arrested this morning in Dingsman Ferry, Pennsylvania, and will make his initial appearance this afternoon in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for distributing a mixture of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Christopher Tyler, 27, previously admitted that on Aug. 29, 2018, he exchanged text messages with a female in Charleston...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Streamwood man has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge and admitted enticing a 16-year-old boy to produce sexually explicit videos of himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Norwood Jewell, the former Vice President of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (“UAW") and the highest official in the UAW’s Chrysler Department was sentenced to prison today based on his conviction for accepting bribes from high-level executives of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (“FCA" or “Fiat Chrysler"), announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Josue Balbino Ruiz-Reyes, age 25, of Adelphi, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamines and to using, carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Heather Downs, 33, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." She pled guilty on Oct. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former bank branch manager at Wells Fargo pleaded guilty today to one felony count of bank fraud for using his position to help launder proceeds of a tax fraud and identity theft scheme that used false identities and bogus Republic of Armenia passports to fraudulently obtain $14 million in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Ryan Fitzgerald Dalley, 44, of Soda Springs, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 17 years in federal prison for continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to launder money, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered that Dalley be placed on supervised release for ten years following his prison sentence. Dalley pleaded guilty on June 25, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON–Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Kevin K. McAleenan, departed Guatemala City last Thursday after engaging in several productive meetings to increase collaboration and partnership across a number of initiatives to confront irregular migration in the Northern Triangle region. During his ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with R.E.E. Inc., which owns and operates McDonald’s restaurants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. The settlement resolves a claim that the restaurants R.E.E. operated violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens when verifying their work authorization.
