News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced a Nigerian National residing in Austin to 78 months in federal prison for laundering more than $1.7 Million in Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam proceeds stolen from multiple companies, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Antonio; and, Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Banks, age 33, formerly of Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea on Dec. 18, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Banks was then immediately sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman, surrounded by federal and local law enforcement partners, announced more than 100 felony offenders possessing firearms have been charged so-far in 2019 as part of the ongoing Project Guardian effort to fight back against the violent crime plaguing Metro Louisville.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Yaniv Gohar, 36, formerly of Berkeley, was sentenced today to three years and nine months in prison for conducting an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and failure to appear, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
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 USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today released the following statements on the one-year anniversary of the signing of the 2018 Farm Bill on December 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that on Dec. 17, 2019, Steven Kotsonis, a medical doctor, 38, of Menomonee Falls, pleaded guilty in federal district court to one count of unlawfully distributing Oxycodone outside of a professional medical practice and not for a legitimate...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Adam M. Hausman, age 45, of Loveland, Colorado was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 18 months in federal prison following by 1 year of supervised release for obstructing and impeding the administration of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Government presented evidence that defendant participated in human rights violations in Guatemala.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Maria Espinal, age 53, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Eduardo Ramirez, age 44, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced yesterday afternoon (Dec. 19, 2019) before South Bend District Court Judge Damon Leichty upon his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Former Chairman and Managing Partner Charged for Role In $15 Million Ponzi Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Phoenix District’s Lower Sonoran Field Office is seeking comments on the lease of approximately 200 acres of public land by the Town of Florence for the expansion of Poston Butte Preserve in Pinal County, Ariz.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Canyon Country Fire Zone recently transferred eleven handheld radios to three local fire departments under the BLM's Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program. The program provides essential wildland firefighting equipment to local firefighting partners at no cost which aids in updating equipment and eases operating costs to local citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Joshua David Jordan (30, Seffner) to 25 years in federal prison for arson and for discharging a firearm during and in relation to attempted carjackings. The court also ordered Jordan to pay $82,200 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation area has set the deadline for submitting entries for the park's sixth annual photography contest at 4:30 PM (ET) on Friday, July 31, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03),Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (MA-01), and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) sent a letter to Department...
