News from December 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Congressman Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) sent a letter to the top official at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) urging immediate action be taken to conduct a thorough...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former attorney from Andover was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for engaging in a years-long scheme to defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: MIAMI -Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, of Tracy, California pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke, to a single count indictment charging him with attempted destruction of an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Mark Baker Used Facebook to Publicize and Threaten Cooperating Witnesses in a Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy Prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - In a three-day span beginning Dec. 5, the DEA Omaha Division, in coordination with state and local law enforcement partners, arrested five people and seized 240 pounds of methamphetamine, two kilograms of heroin, one stolen handgun and $289,269 in drug profits. Four of the five arrests and 225 pounds of the methamphetamine came from Minnesota, while agents in Omaha seized $134,269 in a single operation.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for approximately $40 million in Phase I innovation projects for FY2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A State Grand Jury indicted 11 individuals accused of shipping illegal drugs and contraband across the country through the United Parcel Service (UPS); collectively the defendants face 48 felony counts, including money laundering, transportation of marijuana for sale, transportation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - James “Jimmy" Evans Sr., 49, of Reno, was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute nearly one pound of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel W. Neill for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the inclusion of his Global Fragility Act and Championing American Business Through Diplomacy Act in the end of year spending package. These bipartisan bills will help prevent regional...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf and Panamanian Minister of Public Security Rolando Mirones signed a Letter of Intent for Security Cooperation at DHS headquarters in Washington, DC, to improve the two countries’ collaborative security efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: John Rabago, 43, of Honolulu, Hawaii, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi to one count of conspiring to deprive a person of his civil rights, and one count of acting under color of law to deprive the same individual of his civil rights. “As a police officer sworn to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A Pennsylvania doctor pleaded guilty to fraud and drug importation charges for his role in a scheme to illegally import medications not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and administer these medications to his patients, and unlawfully distributing oxycodone to his patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Sunarko Kuntjoro, 68, a citizen of Indonesia, and three Indonesian-based companies, PT MS Aero Support (PTMS), PT Kandiyasa Energi Utama (PTKEU), and PT Antasena Kreasi (PTAK), were charged today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Dec. 10, 2019, with violating U.S. export ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A Raleigh, North Carolina, man was sentenced to 45 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Anthony Boen, the current sheriff of Franklin County, Arkansas, with federal civil rights offenses. Sheriff Boen, age 49, is charged with three counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 242.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The owner of a physical security school pleaded guilty today to defrauding a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program dedicated to rehabilitating military veterans with disabilities. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The owner of a purported investment company based in the United Kingdom and two alleged co-conspirators were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for their alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme by which they allegedly stole at least $6.2 million from victim investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Camden, New Jersey, convicted an Atlantic City man of conspiring to defraud the United States, filing false claims, and obstructing the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A medical doctor who practiced in West Virginia was sentenced to prison today for his role in unlawfully distributing opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs today announced it has awarded funding totaling over $62 million to provide services designed to protect officers and improve overall public safety. OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Institute of Justice awarded grants to law enforcement departments, local jurisdictions, and training, technical assistance and research organizations throughout the United States.
