News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Miami, Florida, yesterday returned a two-count indictment against Hialeah Police Department Officer Jesus Manuel Menocal Jr, 32, for depriving two women of their civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Dewayne Yates, 28, of Picayune, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 96 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a $1,500 fine, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for robbing more than half a dozen credit unions - including two additional credit union robberies he committed while he was out on bond awaiting trial on federal bank robbery charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced today April Nicole Pitchford, 31, of Mint Hill, N.C., to 30 years in prison, followed by 30 years of supervised release for producing child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Pitchford was also ordered to register as a sex offender after she is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Todd Andrew Leasure, age 45, of Orange Beach, Alabama, to six months of home detention as part of five years’ probation, for the federal charge of making false statements in connection with the number of hours he worked on a contract at the National Security Agency (NSA). Judge Hollander also ordered Leasure to pay restitution of $150,001.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced that Representative Ami Bera has been named Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation and that Representative Joaquin Castro, the full committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 10-count indictment charging ANTHONY TEIXEIRA, 50, of Danbury, with wire fraud offenses related to an embezzlement scheme. The indictment was returned on Dec. 11, 2019, and Texiera was arrested yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces an Arrest for Threatening Interstate Communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs today announced awards of more than $333,000,000 to help communities affected by the opioid crisis. $1,261,995 will help public safety and public health professionals in Niagara, Erie, and Monroe Counties in the Western District of New York to combat substance abuse and respond effectively to overdoses. An additional $13,000,000 will fund related efforts across New York State.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Over $1.2 Million Will Support Efforts to Combat Drugs and Crime in the Northern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the sentencing on Dec. 12, 2019 of EMMANUEL PRIVA, age 39, a citizen of Haiti, for charges stemming from a visa fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced PRIVA to 27 months in prison and ordered the forfeiture of PRIVA’s house, automobile, and funds seized from ten bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging OLGA MARINA FRANCO DEL-CID, 35, with illegal re-entry, identification document fraud, and false representation of social security account number.FRANCO DEL-CID will appear on these charges on Dec. 16, 2019, at 2:00 pm before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: $2,076,810 Will Support Efforts to Combat Drugs and Crime in the.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Three men, Syed Hoque, 24, of Brooklyn, New York, Tharushan Nirmalachandran, 30, of Ile-Bizard, Quebec, and Aijtharan Raveendran, 29, of Toronto, Ontario, have pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Maxine Waters, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court agreeing to review cases for President Trump’s financial records...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal. “We’re in this Committee room likely for the last time in 2019, and yet so little has been done by the House Democrat majority during this last year. “Let’s run through the list. “The bipartisan work on lowering drug prices has been abandoned. “Instead of working toward...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Donald L. Robison, 57, Ballwin, MO, was sentenced to 75 months in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Robinson was fined $125,000 and remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. He appeared today before U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALVARO JOSE MEZA-GONZALEZ ( MEZA-GONZALEZ), age 39, a native of Nicaragua, was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2019 after previously pleading guilty to illegally using a Social Security number to obtain employment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: America's Conservation Enhancement Act will reauthorize or establish several important government wildlife conservation programs.
