News from December 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
Release: SYRACUSE, NY - A Onondaga County, New York, woman was caught by Transportation Security Administration officers with a.380 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets in her carry-on bag today at Syracuse-Hancock International Airport. The incident took place just one week after a Florida man was caught with a loaded gun at the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman 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 | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that William Keith Jones, age 59, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on Jan. 23, 2019, to four counts of income tax evasion. Senior United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A suspended pharmacist has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, PA, on charges of obtaining controlled substances by fraud, misbranding of drugs, and health care fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced it is seeking the public’s assistance to develop a list of national park lands that would benefit from new or increased access routes. This effort advances the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (S.47), which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in March 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CESAR RUBEN YLLESCAS, 45, a citizen of Peru last residing in Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 10 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based perpetrators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK GIOVINCO was convicted yesterday of conspiring to commit extortion and racketeering offenses with members and associates of the Genovese Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra following a six-day jury trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to twenty-four months in prison for stealing more than eight hundred thousand dollars from the federal government U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Joseph Ashton, former Vice President of the UAW’s General Motors Department, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other UAW officials to engage in honest services fraud by taking $250,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a UAW vendor and to conspiring to launder the proceeds of the scheme announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Devontez Bobo, 26, of Omaha, was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for transportation with intent to promote prostitution, distribution of cocaine, and felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system. Bobo was ordered to serve three years on supervised release after the completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael J. Blake, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was arrested today and had an initial appearance after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Wheeling on Dec. 3, 2019, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: This morning Reuters published a story that raises concerns about the upcoming 2020 Census. Even though this story, as published, contains inaccuracies and outdated information, we are looking into every aspect of it and are taking all concerns seriously. We presently believe that the story relies on several assertions made by people without the knowledge or context to speak authoritatively.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Presque Isle woman pleaded guilty today in Bangor to passing counterfeit money, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Gregory Doneal Mack, 56, of Charlotte, appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to preparing false tax returns while working for a tax return preparation business. The owner of the tax preparation business, Sean Dalton Williams, 48, of Charlotte, previously pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting the preparation of a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Gloucester man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Leah M. Stevens, 32, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a final rule that promotes work for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement today in support of this rule, which promotes self-sufficiency and encourages Americans to seek and secure gainful employment...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSTON, PA ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Railcare - based in Wilmington, Delaware - for confined space hazards after an employee fatality in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The railcar service provider faces $551,226 in proposed penalties.
