News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Fausto Isidro Meza-Flores, also known as “Chapo Isidro," has been charged in a superseding indictment with a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States. Meza-Flores, a Mexican national who is believed to currently reside in Mexico, is the leader of the Meza-Flores Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO), a major drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Discharged Army Vet Claimed PTSD Benefits from Fake Tour in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years and seven months (151 months) in prison on his conviction of distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the Beltzhoover neighborhood in Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Carolina Liquid Chemistries, Inc. (CLC), was sentenced today to pay $50,000 for selling adulterated medical devices, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI) Special Agent in Charge Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Spokane Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Thursday against Darrel Kieth Higginbotham, 53, of Fernley, Nevada, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, CT- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exit and storage hazards at a store in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The national discount retailer faces $208,384 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Evaded Payment of More Than $160,000 of Federal Income Tax From 2009 Through October 2019, by Concealing Proceeds of a Law Suit Settlement and Failing to File Individual Income Tax Returns from 2005 Through 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 100 fewer cures. Storm clouds on the horizon. 88% reduction in number of drugs brought to market in California alone. This is Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing scheme, and it will have devastating effects for Americans relying on innovative new medicines for hope.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: CLEVELAND - ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cleveland special agents and partner agencies brought charges against 47 accused child predators in 2019, as part of the agency's ongoing international effort known as Operation Predator. The arrests represented an increase of nearly 10 percent from 2018 and accounted for nearly 20 percent of all of the office’s investigative work.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Five individuals and an attorney have been charged with defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of over $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. The indictment alleges that four sisters, one of their daughters, and a lawyer worked together...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: The lead defendant in a drug-smuggling ring that attempted to traffic methamphetamine through the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport was sentenced this afternoon to 16 years and 8 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: A Brownfield doctor who prescribed drugs without legitimate medical purpose was sentenced today to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $70,000 in restitution following an investigation by the DEA, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a Rock Island, Ill., man, Justin Michael Kellett, 36, to 15 years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Kellett was ordered to remain on supervised release for five years following his release from prison. Kellett has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in April 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released an updated version of their bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2019 and announced that an agreement was reached to fund critical, expiring health care programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for supplying cocaine and other controlled substances to individuals in Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: American Bakers Association . “We applaud the dedicated leadership of Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander, for this vitally important step towards solving the vexing multi-employer pension challenge.". The American...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man convicted of abusive sexual contact was sentenced on December 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 100 fewer cures. Storm clouds on the horizon. 88% reduction in number of drugs brought to market in California alone. This is Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing scheme, and it will have devastating effects for Americans relying on innovative new medicines for hope.
