News from December 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man was arrested today on federal criminal charges that he participated in a $23.8 million scheme to manufacture and ship counterfeit laptop computer batteries and other electronics from China to the United States, where the bogus batteries were sold to unsuspecting buyers in online marketplaces.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Dale Johnson, 57, of Anchorage, has been charged with one count of conspiracy for his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) into issuing Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) government...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - In two separate cases, an Alcorn County man and a Prentiss County man were each sentenced to approximately 20 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Defendant shot Shreveport Postal letter carrier while he was delivering mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jose Manuel Romero-Parada, 25, formerly of Indianapolis, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 480 months in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, Mayor of Yuma, Arizona, Douglas Nicholls, at a meeting with Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Ken Cuccinelli, withdrew an April 2019 local State of Emergency proclamation regarding the ongoing security and humanitarian crisis on the Southwest border.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2019) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by a bipartisan vote of 385-41.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the accomplishments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the past year. USDA has continued enacting President Trump’s goals of regulatory reform, streamlining government, and refocusing USDA to be customer oriented.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A woman from Culiacan, Mexico was convicted after a seven-day jury trial for her role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine and dozens of pounds of methamphetamine into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Today the Justice Department, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a joint policy Statement regarding the treatment of standard-essential patents (SEP) where the patent holder has agreed to license its patents on fair, reasonable, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will file a petition asking the court to clarify and extend by five and a half years the Final Judgment entered by the Court in United States v. Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:10-cv-00139-RMC (July 30, 2010). This is the most significant enforcement action of an existing antitrust decree by the Department in 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John H. Durham, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, today announced that Kevin Iman McCormick, 26, of Hamden, Connecticut, has been charged by indictment with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The former CEO of the Israel-based company Yukom Communications, a purported sales and marketing company, was sentenced to 22 years in prison today for orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors who had purchased more than $100 million in financial instruments known as “binary options.” Lee Elbaz, 38, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to murdering his longtime girlfriend during a cruise from Florida to the Bahamas in January 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Three Peruvian men were extradited today to the United States, where they stand accused of operating a large fraud and extortion scheme, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Johnny Enso Hidalgo Marchan, 40, of Lima, Peru; Francesco Flabio Guerra Perez, 24, of Lima, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Springfield, Massachusetts, returned an indictment today charging a local golf professional with theft concerning a program receiving federal funds, wire fraud, money laundering-related crimes, and filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The owner of a Detroit-area pain clinic and physical therapy clinic was sentenced to 11 years in prison today for her role in a diversion scheme involving more than 500,000 pills of oxycodone and other drugs. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Société Générale S.A., Paris, France, and Société Générale, New York Branch, New York, New York Written Agreement (PDF) dated Dec. 17, 2019 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The growth of payments using debit and credit cards and the automated clearinghouse (ACH) system continued to accelerate from 2015 to 2018, while check payments continued their long-run decline, according to U.S. noncash payments data collected by the Federal Reserve.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released Uncertain Terms: What Small Business Borrowers Find When Browsing Online Lender Websites, a report that examines the information that prospective small business borrowers encounter when researching and comparing credit products offered by online lenders.
