News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cameron Fox, 35, of Rocklin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 20 years in prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform; Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations; and Congressman Michael Cloud (R-TX), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jamie Ervin, 49, of Springfield, Massachusetts was sentenced on Wednesday to 27 months in prison for bank fraud and identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Emeka Nnawuba Opened Bank Accounts with Fake Identities and Laundered More Than $2,000,000 in Fraud Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Oscar A. Fajardo, 50, a legal permanent resident in the United States and a citizen of El Salvador, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to transporting an illegal alien within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Former Sheriff of Philadelphia Sentenced to Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Hector Medina, age 37, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl resulting in the Death of another person. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced Medina to a 15-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: AUBURN, NY- Harriet Tubman National Historical Park (NHP), in partnership with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), will hold a naturalization ceremony on the grounds of the National Park Service’s legislative partner, Harriet Tubman Home, Inc., at 180 South Street on August 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that GEOURVON KEINELL SEARS, age 21, pleaded guilty today to a one-count bill of information for damaging government property in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1361.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Aug. 1, 2019- Due to decreasing fuel moistures, increase in temperatures, and increased fuel loading due to late season rains in the Kaweah River drainage, along with current moderate-high fire danger and entering into the hottest part of the year, fire danger is even more of a concern. Therefore, Stage 1 fire restrictions will be effective at noon on August 5, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting the National Tribal Energy Summit, “Tribal Energy: Powering Self Determination " in partnership with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Sept. 24-26, 2019, at the Westin Washington City Center in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Warren Griffin, II, 50, of Lancaster, Kentucky pleaded guilty today, before Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, to joining with Clarence Michel, Jr. in a $15 million tax fraud scheme. As part of this plea agreement, Griffin agreed to pay $2.8 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Former Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Company, a Real Estate Investment Trust, Have Pled Guilty and Are Cooperating with the Government’s Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Today's Sentencing Marks The Third Illegal Firearm Case This Week Involving A Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Crime Subcommittee Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA), Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and House Judiciary Vice Chair Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding information regarding the Department’s policies that prohibit the use of grant funding for survivors of human trafficking to access critical legal representation to clear their criminal records.and below.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement ahead of the end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, expected tomorrow:
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA -- At 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday, July 31, Death Valley National Park received a report of a potential plane crash in the western portion of the park near Rainbow Canyon. Responding rangers reported scattered debris and seven visitors with non-life-threatening injuries.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service announced today $1.657 million in grants to 16 Indian tribes and 15 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that former Philadelphia Sheriff John Green, 72, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to sixty months’ imprisonment, one year supervised release, forfeiture of $76,581, and a $17,500 fine by United States District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service announced late Wednesday that the accused leader of a sophisticated human trafficking and narcotics distribution operation in Detroit was arrested this evening in Monroe, Michigan.
