News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A Libby woman admitted in federal court today to evading income taxes for two years while she was serving as the financial caretaker for an individual who was unable to care for herself, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Evans, a Former University of South Carolina and Oklahoma State University Men’s Basketball Coach, Pleads Guilty to Accepting Cash Bribes in Return for Steering College Players on His Teams to Corrupt Financial Advisers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About the Attempted Burglary of a Chase Bank Branch in Pembroke Pines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Admits to Possessing Firearm at Rainier Valley Business that was Focal Point of Gang Activity including Drive-By Shootings and Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was indicted in federal court for having fentanyl and cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - The Natural Resources Committee today approved the Committee rules package and subcommittee membership for the 116th Congress. The organizing meeting was led by Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Dominican nationals were indicted today in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owner of a flooring store in the Kansas City area was sentenced today to a year on federal probation for tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He paid $101,014 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Efforts to Map and Disrupt Botnet Used by North Korean Hackers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. 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 | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville, Kentucky, woman who was previously convicted of domestic violence has pleaded guilty to a Superseding Indictment charging her with unlawful possession of 37 firearms, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 30, 2019 - Pathology laboratory company Inform Diagnostics has agreed to pay $63.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department, United States Attorney Don...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), is making progress on a project to remove the pedestrian bridge over the Jacks Fork River along Highway 106 at Alley Spring. The pedestrian bridge was structurally damaged during the April 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Sentencings Resulted From "Operation Kryptonite". MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencing of seven defendants as a result of a multi-agency investigation referred to as “Operation Kryptonite." They were indicted on February...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Trontez Mahaffey, a Cincinnati man, was convicted today by a federal jury in Covington for conspiring with Tyra Nelson, also from Cincinnati, and others, to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and methamphetamine, which they transported in their luggage from Phoenix, Arizona to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on September 8, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held its business organizational meeting to introduce new members, adopt committee rules, and approve subcommittee assignments. The following Republican members have been approved and assigned to the following subcommittees...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeffrey Abney, age 28, of Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced COURTLAND BARNES, 28, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 168 months of imprisonment followed by ten years of supervised release for receipt and possession of thousands of images and videos containing child pornography.
