News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Sarah Norton, 38, of Jewett City, Connecticut was convicted at trial of attempted enticement of a minor and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor arising from her interactions with a 14 year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Ten former National Football League (NFL) players have been charged in the Eastern District of Kentucky for their alleged roles in a nationwide fraud on a health care benefit program for retired NFL players.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Central Plateau Cleanup Contract that will provide a variety of services at the Hanford Site, to Central Plateau Cleanup Company LLC located in Aiken, SC. The Central Plateau Cleanup Company LLC members are AECOM Management Services, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Homestead, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Tammy Fox, 49, of Carrolton, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of wire fraud related to her former position as Office Manager of Explosive Professionals Midwest, Incorporated, also known as ExPro Midwest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A grand jury has returned an indictment against five members of a drug-trafficking organization for conspiring to distribute significant amounts of narcotics through an open-air drug market in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Thursday, a federal jury convicted Marcela Heredia, 46, of Riverside, of seven counts of wire fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of making a false tax return, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former Richmond Hill police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for luring teen girls to meet him for sex.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other body tissue for soldiers who have lost arms in battle, children who need a new heart or liver, and many other people with critical needs. Today, medical professionals can graft cells from a patient, deposit them onto a tissue scaffold, and insert the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, Cyrus Phyfier, 51, of Montgomery, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for multiple drug and firearm related charges, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris, United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Hal Taylor and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 10, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment against Maurice Tolbert (age 40) of Milwaukee and Richard Tolbert (age 36) of Chicago, charging them with a series of robberies of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Sarah Norton, 38, of Jewett City, Connecticut was convicted at trial of attempted enticement of a minor and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor arising from her interactions with a 14 year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Johnson, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP - A twice-removed Salvadoran national was sentenced Nov. 18 to 30 months in federal custody. The sentencing of Jose Ruiz-Alvarado, 52, follows a February 2019 indictment for illegal reentry, a charge initiated after his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for immigration violations.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General sent a letter to Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, announcing the initiation of an audit of the $400 million border wall construction contract the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded to Fisher Sand and Gravel Co. Thompson requested the review last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Chief United States District Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced DEMETRIS SEAN ROBINSON, a/k/a “Bo Bo," 27, of Whiteville, North Carolina, to life imprisonment plus 10 years to be served consecutively, followed by 5 years of supervised released. ROBINSON was ordered to pay $40,302 in restitution.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: This morning, the House will consider H.R. 19, a Republican amendment to Speaker Pelosi’s radical and partisan drug pricing scheme. Unlike H.R. 3, the Lower Costs, More Cures Act (H.R. 19) encourages innovation of new cures, promotes low-cost options for patients, and improves transparency and accountability.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JERRY RAY CRAINE, 37, of Perkins, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing a firearm after a misdemeanor conviction of domestic violence, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2019, which runs from Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Carol Michaelson, a formerly licensed real estate agent, pleaded guilty today to defrauding her clients by faking property sales, forging contracts and deeds, and then pocketing her victims’ money.
