News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Zipp (619) 546-8463 and Seth Askins (619) 546-6692.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: FBI Offers $1,000 Reward for Suspect in Gallup, New Mexico Bank Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. -- In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering offering up to 49 parcels, comprising about 75,005.71 acres of land in northeastern Nevada within the Elko District, at its June 2019 quarterly oil and gas online lease sale at www.energynet.com. This notice initiates a public comment period on associated environmental documents that ends on March 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of approximately $38 million in assets allegedly associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Canadian man living in Leesburg was sentenced today to 21 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl that caused two deaths and one non-fatal overdose in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Donny Lynn Ferguson, of Great Falls, to 10 years and eight months in prison and five years of supervised release for conviction on distributing large quantities of meth in central Montana and on two Indian reservations, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Two Men Rob Northeast Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released a letter he sent to the White House and the Justice Department to make it clear that Trump Administration officials should not be permitted to indefinitely delay and avoid answering questions in congressional hearings on the grounds that the answer might be privileged.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/MONROE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that the Western District of Louisiana collected $4,849,432 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $4,169,901 was collected in criminal actions and 679,530 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former probation officer was sentenced today to nearly four years in prison for obstructing a federal grand jury investigation into armed drug traffickers and gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A previously convicted child pornography offender was sentenced today to 96 months in prison followed by seven years of supervised release for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Federal Court Bars Florida Tax Return Preparer and Business From Preparing Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments this week. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant connected to seizure of over 1,500 kilos of cocaine bound for Europe aboard fishing vessels.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four additional people have been charged for their respective roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking to Identify Victim Businesses Issued Fraudulent Workers’ Compensation Insurance, Health Care Insurance, and Pension Plan Policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SIVA, a former stock broker, was sentenced today to eighteen months in prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme based on material, nonpublic information misappropriated from an investment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former probation officer was sentenced today to nearly four years in prison for obstructing a federal grand jury investigation into armed drug traffickers and gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 147 months in prison for committing three armed robberies in Salem, Ocean, and Cumberland counties in November 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
