News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced today that the District of Montana collected $9,536,489 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, the office collected $1,567,514 in criminal actions and $7,968,974 in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: A Washington Township, Michigan man was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2019 to serve 12 months in federal custody for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Tumacácori National Historical Park is again offering tours to the historic mission sites of Guevavi and Calabazas. These fragile ruins, protected within the national park, are normally closed to the public and can be visited only as part of these special, reserved tours.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington has sentenced Kelly Stephen Ratcliffe (53, Dunedin) to nine years and two months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. In addition, Ratcliffe is ordered to pay $49,000 in restitution to the victims, and must forfeit the electronic devices that he used to commit the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) has agreed to pay the United States $15,294,360 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -A Lexington man, Marcellis Means, 24, was sentenced Friday to 57 months in federal prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Yamel Guevara Tamayo, 36, of Miami, was sentenced Friday, Dec. 20, 2019 to 63 months in prison for his role in serving as a money mule, and recruiter of more than 15 additional money mules, in an international money laundering operation for business email compromise (BEC) and other cyber-schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information From a Robbery at Credit Union One in Oklahoma City.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A 49-year-old Aurora, Colorado man pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, Dec. 23, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington has sentenced Kelly Stephen Ratcliffe (53, Dunedin) to nine years and two months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. In addition, Ratcliffe is ordered to pay $49,000 in restitution to the victims, and must forfeit the electronic devices that he used to commit the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Jorge L. Rodríguez-Santos was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for committing a carjacking that resulted in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. On May 10, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison after admitting he recruited a high school girl and trafficked her for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Seeley, age 55, of Albany and Queensbury, New York, was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Patrick Teon Robinson, age 27, of Beltsville, Maryland, to 11 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The sentence was imposed on Dec. 20, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released the following statement after Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg resigned his position following two deadly crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 19, 2019, Malcom Wilfong, age 28, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 55 months’ imprisonment for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Leah Bussell (619) 546-6727.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man and woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were recently sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison after admitting he recruited a high school girl and trafficked her for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) issued an ultimatum to the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration...
