News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Defendant Stole Monthly Payments from Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau completed the release of its 2020 Census platform (tagline and logo) for 12 languages in addition to English. The “Shape your future. START HERE." platform is incorporated across Census Bureau outreach and partnership awareness materials and will become more visible as the 2020 Census advertising campaign launches in January 2020. The creative platform will help guide outreach efforts planned by states, local communities and nonprofit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -William W. Seelbach, of Fort Meyers, Florida, was sentenced today to three years probation for tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 1, 2019, Harry Keilholtz, 54, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in federal prison following convictions for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking.
By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Warrensburg, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Building upon the trend of the past few years, the report notes that the vast majority of U.S. fish stocks were at sustainable population levels in 2018, and the number of U.S. fish stocks subject to overfishing remains at a near all-time low. The report also documents a newly-rebuilt stock, smooth skate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: A federal jury yesterday convicted a Pinson man of two counts of possession of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine powder, and cocaine base, also known as “crack" cocaine, with the intent to distribute, and one-count of possession of a gun in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E, Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Spokane Man Sentenced to 17 Years.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Taos Field Office will be conducting an abandoned mine safety project near Golden, New Mexico, August 3-16, 2019. The project is designed to safeguard approximately 20 hazardous abandoned mine openings throughout the 1200-acre New Placers Mining District. This work includes shafts, adits, subsidence areas and other physical openings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Federal grand jury sitting in Lexington has indicted a former employee of the Kentucky Commission (now Office) for Children With Special Health Care Needs, on charges arising from allegations of theft from that agency. Diana Baker, 53, of Louisville, was charged with one count of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and four counts of theft from the state agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly escaped from prison in Puerto Rico in 1994 while serving a 40-year sentence for second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with Il Pomod’Oro Restaurant in East Lyme to resolve allegations that the facility did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Hampton man today on charges of use of a firearm resulting in death, drug conspiracy, attempted possession with intent to distribute ecstacy, and felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of the transnational criminal gang MS-13, or La Mara Salvatrucha, was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with RICO conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - On Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, after a four-day trial, a Binghamton jury found Daniel M. Passero, Jr., of Herkimer County, guilty of receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Kevin M. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Freddie Curtis, 31, of Southeast Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison for escaping from the Hope Village Halfway House, located in Southeast, Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Former Ohio County Magistrate Harry A. Radcliffe, III, was sentenced today to four months incarceration to be followed by two months of home confinement for tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was arrested this morning and charged in federal court in Worcester with possession and distribution of child pornography.
