News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: In Waco today, a federal judge sentenced 26-year-old Riheem Rexdual Robinson (aka “Phat") to 260 months in federal prison for sex trafficking two minors, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Interim Temple Police Chief Jim Tobin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard J. Sherwood, age 59, of Guilderland, New York, was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison for conspiring to steal approximately $11.8 million from estates for which he served as an attorney and fiduciary.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced to federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeremy Adam Bartram, 27, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Connecticut Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ronnie Simpkins, 67, a former government contract officer with the General Services Administration (GSA), pled guilty today to a federal bribery charge stemming from a scheme in which he accepted bribes from government contractors from August 2011 to August 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Todd Young, a member of the Committee, wrote %20Dec.18.2019.pdf) to Health and Human Services Acting Inspector General (HHS OIG) Joanne Chiedi requesting a comprehensive examination of the adequacy of the organ procurement and transplantation system in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 44-year-old Guatemalan Mayor has been indicted for drug trafficking activities and extradited to the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Aurora Betancourt, a Canadian citizen, will be arraigned today in federal court in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold on an indictment charging her with conspiring to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl. Betancourt was arrested in Colombia on Dec. 28, 2018, and extradited to the United States on Dec. 18, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Looking to kick off your new year with a healthy start? The National Park Service would like to invite the public to the 4th annual Tuzigoot Health and Wellness Day on Saturday, January 4th from 10:00am-3:00pm. Rangers and guest demonstrators will be here throughout the day holding fitness classes and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Springfield, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft of Government Funds was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PEDRO CARILLO, also known as “P," 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 161 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping and violent assault he committed with four other members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings").
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that included in a spending bill passed by the Senate Thursday, is a four-year reauthorization of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act. This will ensure that students and their families in the District of Columbia have continued choice and increased opportunity for their education through the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Shelbyville, Kentucky, man, Elder Rene Carrillo-Cruz, 28, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on Thursday, by United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for distributing child pornography.
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.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Brandishing a Firearm during and in Relation to a Crime of Violence was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Marcus Etienne, a.k.a. Hitler, and Mario Robinson, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges stemming from the activities of a marijuana distribution organization, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea was accepted by the Hon. William H. Alsup, United States District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: NOAA has entered into separate multiyear contracts with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft to provide the public with cloud-based access to the agency’s environmental data sets, in accordance with the agency’s full and open data policies. NOAA generates tens of terabytes of data every day from satellites, radars, ships, weather models, and other sources.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two more residents of Western Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
