News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging William Jacobsen and his wife Marta Medvedeva with conspiring, and aiding and abetting others, to enter into sham marriages with foreign nationals for the purpose of obtaining lawful permanent residency in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Westmoreland County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal mail fraud and identity theft laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2019 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. Now is the time for students to get their entries in, for the online contest entry window...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HIRAN SANCHEZ, also known as “Ivan" and “Pablo," 21, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Gabriel Allen Goss, 39, of Asheville, N.C., to 28 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray. Judge Reidinger also ordered Goss to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mark R. Maio, 34, Brittany L. Dellahoy, 28, both of East Randolph, NY, and Brandon Smith, 32, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, methamphetamine and cocaine, and maintaining a drug involved premises. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: A former West Palm Beach, Florida resident who was extradited to the United States from the Dominican Republic was sentenced to 65 months in prison today for multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, formally administered the oath of office to 15 new Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) for the Eastern District of Tennessee. U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey introduced the new AUSAs with a short...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s December 2018 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Ohio Man Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS and Attempting to Commit a Violent Hate Crime Attack Against a Toledo Synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that a Mississippi couple, KIMBERLY HOMRIGHAUSEN, age 42, and RICHARD HOMRIGHAUSEN, age 35, were charged on Jan. 22, 2019, with conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks related to compounded medications paid for by TRICARE, a federally funded health care benefit program that serves United States military personnel and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - RICHARD SPILLANE, 30, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Kenneth Niland, of Keyser, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on Jan. 23, 2019 on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that former Richwood Correctional Center officer, David Parker, pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2019 in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to cover up the physical assault of five inmates by himself and other correctional officers in violation of the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently collaborated to increase efficiency and further enhance safety by improving a facility where workers don and doff protective gear.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in federal prison on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The sentence is to run concurrent to the sentence he is currently serving from York County, South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 17, 2019, a Monroe County, Florida tax return preparer pleaded guilty to two counts of filing fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kevin Douglas Jenkins, 35, of Pelahatchie, pled guilty on Friday, before Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to the production of child pornography and the production of child pornography by a person who has custody of a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
