News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 28-year-old Laredo native has admitted to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 135 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), along with Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security and Trade Ranking Member Francis Rooney (R-FL) and Chairman Albio Sires (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the need for an immediate and clean extension of the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) which expires in January 2020...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Tax loss exceeds $1.9 million. SHREVEPORT, La. - Robert C. Poimboeuf, a Shreveport business owner, pleaded guilty today in federal court, to filing false tax returns, announced David C. Joseph, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A newly unsealed superseding indictment has charged Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. Citizen and various companies in a conspiracy to evade international trade sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Hizballah Operative Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Covert Terrorist Activities on Behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: In a Separate Case, a Twice Convicted Sex Offender is Sentenced to 20 Months in Federal Prison for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Daniel Norris, 32, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 67 months in federal prison for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute. Norris pleaded guilty to this charge on September 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE- Juan Alvarez, a/k/a Chucky, and Ramon Montoya, a/k/a Little Ray, pleaded guilty today to racketeering conspiracy charges for their respective roles as associates of the Nuestra Familia prison gang, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The guilty pleas were accepted by the Honorable Beth L. Freeman, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Defendant’s Crimes Included Arson, Extortion and Illegal Gambling in Brooklyn.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Shoshone Field Office has implemented the annual seasonal motorized use closures in the Wood River Valley to protect wintering deer and elk. The seasonal closures are for BLM-managed land only and will lift April 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 28-year-old Mexican citizen has entered a guilty plea to conspiring to import more than 16 kilograms of cocaine into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution introduced by Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03) and Congressman Peter King (R-NY-02), which calls on the United Kingdom and European Union to protect lasting peace in Northern Ireland during Brexit negotiations. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY-16) cosponsored the resolution and advanced the measure to pass the House.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) in sending letters in support of recommendations that the device identifier portion of unique device identifiers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Shawndale Davis, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Andrew Dixey Galloway, 30, of Blackfoot, was sentenced to a total of 179 months in federal prison for assault with intent to commit murder and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Bart M Davis announced today. Galloway was sentenced to 59 months on the assault...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Yahaira Diaz, 33, of Pottsville, PA was sentenced to 65 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay more than $165,000 in restitution by United States District Judge Jeffrey Schmehl for her leadership of an elder fraud scheme commonly known as the “Grandparents Scheme." The defendant was immediately taken into custody after the hearing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Leonid Gershman, aka “Lenny," a leading member of a violent, Brooklyn-based Eastern European organized crime syndicate that operated primarily in the Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Coney Island neighborhoods, was sentenced to 198 months’ ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Maciejewski, 26, of Penn Yan, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that YMER SHAHINI was sentenced to 18 months in prison by United States District Judge P. Kevin Castel in connection with his role in a scheme to defraud shareholders of a publicly traded company and the investing public. SHAHINI pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud on Sept. 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of the Pittsburgh area pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
