News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging MICHAEL SZWARC, 31, last residing in Hartford, with one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy McCluskey, 61, of Williamsville, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to serve two years’ probation to include six months home detention. Judge Geraci also ordered the defendant to perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Florida Compounding Pharmacy and Its Owners to Pay at Least $775,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 38-year-old Sherman man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An initial trial date in March has been scheduled for a St. Joseph, Ill., man, William M. Bell, 39, who has been arrested and indicted on federal child pornography charges. Bell, a former information technology employee of Monticello, Ill., community unit school district 25, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - A former bank officer has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling funds from Southern Bancorp Bank. Michael J. Erickson, age 42, of Ridgeland, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson on Thursday to serve 24 months imprisonment followed by 3 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, and U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Northern District of New York announced that Ronny Mota, age 29, of Bronx, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Narcotics Were Recovered After Defendant Fired Gunshots at Another Driver During Road Rage Incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Birmingham, AL-- U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town announced today that the Northern District of Alabama collected $9,044,060.80 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $7,221,160.63 was collected in criminal actions and $1,822,900.17 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: A woman who possessed guns while using drugs was sentenced on Feb. 13, 2019, to three years’ probation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area proposes to update and improve the current Fire Management Plan to ensure compliance with recent changes to National Park Service fire management guidance. In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Park Service is accepting...
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today released a management alert from the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DONTAY LAVARICE REESE, 37, for kidnapping. REESE entered his guilty plea yesterday afternoon before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that PEGGY NAGELE, age 65 of Thibodeaux, Louisiana pleaded guilty Jan. 24, 2019 to a one count bill of information, charging her with violating Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206, making false statements on an income tax return.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Jackie Speier, the Chairwoman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, issued the following statement in response to a new report from the Department of Agriculture Inspector General identifying numerous failures by management in the Forest Service’s Region 5...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Defendant was previously arrested in connection with the murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Dylan M. Aste (619) 546-7621.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Local business owner Magdaleno Garcia Alonso has pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe an IRS Revenue Agent to get out of paying his personal and business taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) introduced the bipartisan Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act. Almost a quarter of all House members, 92 members of both parties, joined as original cosponsors of the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based doctor pleaded guilty yesterday and his medical billing supervisor pleaded guilty today for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare and other health care insurers.
