News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former accounting manager who is facing 10 wire fraud counts for allegedly embezzling more than $36 million from his employer’s client and then using the bulk of the ill-gotten funds to pay off tens of millions of dollars of his credit card debt has been extradited to the United States from Costa Rica.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 14, 2019 - Jamal J. Gardner, 47, of Columbia, Tennessee, was charged today in a criminal complaint with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. -Tyler Bachtel, 23, of Saucier, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Bachtel was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, For several months now, we have been working to extend a set of tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017, commonly known as the tax extenders. We have also been working to enact bipartisan disaster tax relief to help families and businesses that continue to recover from the disasters...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: 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 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former corporate secretary and director of corporate law at a global technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, was charged today with insider trading, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nicole Wallace, 34, of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and Edward Hooten, 42, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been charged in two separate but related indictments with conspiring to rob three area banks, armed bank robbery, attempted armed bank robbery, and aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that 27 Houston residents have been indicted and arrested as the result of an investigation into ATM robberies in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Meredith Atwell, age 39, of Huttig, Arkansas was sentenced Feb. 13, 2019 to 54 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Wire Fraud and one count of Possession of a Prohibited Object in Prison. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Gary Atchley, 54, of Perryville, Missouri, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Wednesday for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $187,252.60 in restitution. He appeared in federal court before U.S. District Henry Autrey.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: EASTLAKE, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Conn-Selmer Inc. for exposing workers to copper dust and machine hazards at the company’s Eastlake, Ohio, musical instrument manufacturing facility. The company faces penalties of $200,230 for two repeated and seven serious safety and health violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Clay County woman pled guilty yesterday to embezzling over $18,000 in federal FEMA disaster benefits. The case was investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security - Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) and the West Virginia Commission on Special Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 1112, the Enhanced Background Checks Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Parkville, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for filing false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today called on President Trump to withdraw the nomination of Barry Myers to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Myers is the former chief executive of AccuWeather, which paid out a recently reported $290,000 settlement as part of an agreement that states the company subjected women to “sexual harassment and a hostile work environment" during his tenure.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 13, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on FEMA Administrator Brock Long’s announced resignation: “Over the last two years, Administrator Long has admirably led the men and women of FEMA during very difficult, historic and complex times. Under ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2019) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement regarding the American Broadband Initiative Milestones Report which was published today: “Last year, I presented the findings of the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, a former U.S. service member and counterintelligence agent, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for conspiracy to deliver and delivering national defense information to representatives of the Iranian government. Witt, who defected to Iran in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Christopher Bantli pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a conspiracy to import fentanyl into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Adolphus P. Wright of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Miami Field Division.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board identified an error in the historical dataset used in its 2019 stress tests and issued a correction.
