News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman was acquitted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on Dec. 17, 2019, and concluding on Dec. 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: More than $400,000.00 Awarded to Eastern District of North Carolina Law Enforcement Agencies.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) sent a letter to Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) requesting immediate hearings on H.R. 5493. Introduced yesterday, the legislation seeks to enhance oversight mechanisms at the Department of the Interior by prohibiting the Director of the...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After assuming the majority in the House of Representatives in January, Democrats in the Ways and Means Committee worked tirelessly this year to advance measures that support Americans’ financial security, health, and wellbeing. A few of the Committee’s notable achievements in 2019 include...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, along with Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Reps. Jackie Speier, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Lois Frankel sent letters to Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court for his involvement in methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering operations at Casa Herrera, a local money remitter business, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation is coordinating with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to lower the water level of Lake Moovalya by approximately one foot in elevation for about two weeks beginning in early-January 2020. Lake Moovalya is the small body of water upstream of Headgate Rock Dam...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that GEORGE HAJATI, 41, of Cromwell, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho -- The Bureau of Land Management Pocatello Field Office has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement to address the J.R. Simplot Company’s request to exchange 719 acres of federal land adjacent to Simplot’s Don Plant, for 667 acres of non-federal land near the Chinese Peak-Blackrock Canyon area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden woman was arrested and charged yesterday in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $795,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced James John Edwards (37, Brevard County) to 9 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Edwards to pay $50,000 in restitution to the victims of the offense, and to forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit the offense. A federal jury found Edwards guilty on Aug. 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The regional president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boston for possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jolynn Denise McHone, 45, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, was sentenced late yesterday to three years in prison and two years of supervised release for embezzling more than $2.4 million worth of computer equipment from her employer, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western district of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. also ordered McHone to pay more than $2.4 million in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - The National Park Service (NPS) and research partners from the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) are using data from GPS collars on introduced wolves to monitor associations between individuals and identify possible pack formation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DEEPAK “JACK" JAGTIANI, age 60, a resident of Metairie, was charged on Dec. 19, 2019 in a two-count indictment with wire fraud and making false statements on a federal income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired city clerk of Caney, Kan. was sentenced Thursday to three years on federal probation for embezzling city funds, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. The defendant also was ordered to pay more than $150,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Joey Stanton Dodson, chairman and managing partner of an energy company, charging him with crimes related to an alleged $15 million Ponzi scheme involving approximately 50 victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of North Las Vegas, Nevada, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity and Travel With Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Florida man has admitted to laundering funds related to a $9 million business account takeover scheme with ties to Eastern Europe, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that PEDRO ANDRES OSORIO was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William H.
