News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced GEORGE HADDEN, 36, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 240 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. HADDEN was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A St. Peters, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which she received more than $231,000 in disability payments intended for her mother, who died nearly 50 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced SHAUN MICHAEL SPRAGUE, 37, with no fixed address on February 5, 2019 for arson of a facility engaged in interstate commerce. Sprague was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Jermaine Green, also known as “730," a member of the Bloods street gang from Roosevelt, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 15 years’ imprisonment on his conviction for racketeering and discharging a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to his role in a conspiracy to hide money from a federally insured financial institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALVARADO DOMINGUEZ, a/k/a “Jochi," 32, was sentenced today to 279 months in prison for his participation in the “Hot Boys" robbery crew, including an Oct. 27, 2006, robbery that resulted in the murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Tommy Robert Spells, also known as Thomas Spell, 32, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981 and Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man pled guilty today to federal drug and gun charges. James Michael Hill, 50, of South Charleston, pled guilty to three counts of distribution of marijuana and one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Stuart praised the investigation conducted by MDENT.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: FEB. 21, 2019 - In the last two decades, the number of people with master’s and doctoral degrees has doubled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Honduran citizen pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States after being removed by immigration authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Six pill presses and 48 pounds of suspected methamphetamine seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a 2016 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that David Fagan, 32, of Manchester, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: February 15th and February 19th Bank Robberies.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against the ongoing promotion and approval of harmful Medicaid waivers, citing the significant coverage losses taking place in states like Arkansas and the Administration’s failure to appropriately track or evaluate the impact of the misguided policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nine real estate investors have been sentenced for their role in a conspiracy to rig bids, in violation of the U.S. antitrust laws, at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Southern Mississippi, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KEITH CRAIG, age 57, a resident of LaPlace, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count Bill of Information with making a false statement to the Small Business Administration, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1001.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced an indictment charging FRANKLIN JACKSON, a/k/a “Frankie," 23, KRISTOPHER SULLIVAN, a/k/a “Blood Money," 24, and BRYAN BOARDMAN, a/k/a “Boon," 24, with conspiracy to distribute heroin. SULLIVAN and BOARDMAN were also charged with using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
