News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Matthew Burkett, 47, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced today to one year and one day for defrauding investors and customers of Predator Tactical, LLC, his firearms manufacturing business. Burkett was also ordered to pay $576.100.48 restitution in total to various individuals and businesses. Burkett appeared before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus couple have agreed to plead guilty to charges related to a health-care fraud scheme that involved compound creams prescribed to city employees and first responders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Geraldine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel Payne, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service Northeast Region Director Gay Vietzke has named Jennifer Smith as the superintendent of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (NHP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The leader of a large-scale timeshare resale scam was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for defrauding more than 1,000 victims, many of them elderly, out of more than $3.3 million, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC -Below is Chairman Elijah E. Cummings’ opening statement for today’s full Committee hearing with Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Matthew Joshua Green of Clayton County, Georgia was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person before Judge William H. Steele. Green had prior felony convictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The founder of My Big Coin Pay Inc., a purported cryptocurrency and virtual payment services company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., was arrested and charged today for his participation in a scheme to defraud investors by marketing and selling fraudulent virtual currency.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service has completed its February 2019 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island. The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 76 horses, including 21 stallions and 55 mares. Three aged mares, N6BK “Bessy Twister", N6H and X24M “Patty" are...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: Two individuals were charged in an indictment filed today for their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving purported investments in a start-up financial technology company.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Ensuring student safety in the classroom is paramount. Inappropriate uses of seclusion and restraint against students are never acceptable, but a one-size-fits-all mandate handed down from Washington is the wrong way to ensure students’ safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Rick Lynn Simmons, 52, of Kentwood, Michigan pleaded guilty before a U.S. Magistrate Judge to one count of making an interstate telephone call to the Camden, New Jersey office of U.S. Senator Cory Booker and leaving a voicemail...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Delaware counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Kent, New Castle and Sussex counties who suffered losses caused by the combined effects of excessive rainfall, flooding and Hurricanes Florence and Michael that occurred June 14 through Nov. 29, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Defendant Collected More Than $400,000 Meant for Individuals and Families in Need of Temporary Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and two counts of Child Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, We’re now in the fifth week of the tax filing season. Based on all reports from the IRS, the filing season is running smoothly. All systems are operating as expected, returns are being processed, and refunds are being sent out without any major complications. According to Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that Aaron Hicks, aka Boog, aka Boogy, 34, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, Judge Arcara ordered the defendant to forfeit $10,400,000 in proceeds from illegal drug trafficking activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Representatives from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the 25th Judicial District Attorney General and the Hardeman County Sheriff today announced a $24,000 reward, in a renewed effort to gain additional information about a 1998 unsolved murder in Hardeman County.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: CRAIG, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a public open house March 14 in Hayden to discuss management of more than 1,870 miles of inventoried roads and trails across approximately 638,195 acres in Moffat and Routt counties.
