News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that United States District Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced William ISAAC DANIELS, 38, of Wake County to 211 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release and BOB BIONGO, 31, of Wake County to 180 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Adrian Almodovar III, a former correctional officer at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in federal court today to unlawfully assaulting two handcuffed inmates and to failing to stop other correctional officers from assaulting one of the inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough today sentenced Edwin J. Gire, 47, owner of Gire Roofing, Inc., of Champaign, Ill., to three years in prison for visa fraud and for harboring and employing illegal aliens. In addition, Gire was ordered to pay a fine of $30,000, and to remain on...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - Transportation Security Administration officers stopped 82 guns at the Virginia airport checkpoints in 2018, an increase from the 71 caught in 2017. The increase was mainly attributable to the more than doubling of the number of firearms stopped at Norfolk International Airport. Virginia’s increase mirrored the national trend of an uptick in the number of firearms detected at airport checkpoints nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sean Trim, 33, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and Tishon Singh, 28, of Queens, New York, were sentenced in U.S. District Court on credit card fraud charges. On Jan. 25, 2019, Chief Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Trim to 40 months in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Joey P. Foster, 44, of St. Louis, pled guilty to felon in possession of a firearm stemming from his arrest on pending assault charges in St. Louis City on May 28, 2018. He appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Ronnie White who accepted his plea and set sentencing for May 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Indictment allege series of lies, including failure to disclose membership in the Cuban government’s Department of State Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: A third individual has been indicted on charges related to the armed robbery of gold bars.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: On February 6, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen accompanied Vice President Mike Pence to Norfolk, Virginia to visit the Joint Task Force – East (JTF-E). During their visit they received a briefing from Joint Task Force East (JTF-E) and the Department’s other Joint Task Forces, toured Coast Guard Cutter Bear, and spoke with DHS employees.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ONDCP Announces Senior Adviser for Rural Affairs WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2019 – Today, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Jim Carroll announced Anne Hazlett as the office’s Senior Adviser for Rural Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that defendant Quintail Credit, a former officer at the Richwood Correctional Center, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to cover up the physical assault of five inmates by officers. Credit, 26, of Winsboro, Louisiana, pleaded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded more than $8.3 million in Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) funding to aid Californians who are survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein made the announcement in a speech today to law enforcement at the Los Angeles Crimefighters Leadership Conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Adrian Almodovar III, a former correctional officer at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in federal court today to unlawfully assaulting two handcuffed inmates and to failing to stop other correctional officers from assaulting one of the inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against defendants Ranier’s Rx Laboratory Inc., doing business as Ranier’s Compounding Laboratory, and Francis H. Ranier, its owner. The injunction permanently enjoins the defendants from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: According to court documents unsealed today, 20 people, including 16 foreign nationals, have been charged for their roles in an international organized crime group that defrauded American victims through online auction fraud causing millions of dollars in losses.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Consent Prohibition against Alison Keefe, former employee of SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, Georgia, for violating bank overdraft policies for her own benefit.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: On February 6, 2019, the Department of Commerce notified the Mexican signatories to the 2013 Suspension Agreement on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico that the Department intends to withdraw from the Agreement, consistent with Section VI.B. Section VI.B of the Agreement states that “[t]he signatories or the ...
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department of Commerce would join with other federal government agencies for the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. The new initiative builds on the already substantial efforts by the Trump Administration to provide increased economic opportunity for women around the world.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), El Grande Supermarket Corp. – operating as El Grande Supermarket in Tampa, Florida – will pay $198,039 in back wages and liquidated damages to 17 employees for violating the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), IV Wireless LLC – operating as Boost Mobile in Pensacola, Florida – will pay $27,514 in back wages and liquidated damages to 32 employees for violating the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
