News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that an illegal alien from Mexico arrested in Acadia Parish pleaded guilty today to illegally re-entering the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Claude Charles Iron Thunder, 42, of Lincoln, was sentenced today to seven years (84 months) in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine between June of 2014 and March of 2018. Following his prison term, Iron Thunder will serve four years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Concealing Person from Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that E.M. Photonics, Inc. (“EMP") and its Chief Executive Officer, Eric Kelmelis, have agreed to pay $2.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by seeking disbursements from federal agencies for falsified labor costs and duplicative work in order to maximize charges to contracts awarded by federal agencies.
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: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Michael Luciano, 33, of New London, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MIGUEL MARTINEZ, also known as “Nitro," 34, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for firearm and drug offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Thank you to everyone for being here today for the Ways and Means Committee’s first policy hearing in the 116th Congress. And warm welcome to new members of the committee on both sides of the aisle. I am honored to be the 67th Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. I take this position, and the history...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Fifth-grade students from Dos Rios Elementary School in Grand Junction, Colorado, learned important energy concepts that scientists use at the Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn., - Jan. 29, 2019 - Rex Andrew Whitlock, aka Stackhouse, 33, of Clarksville, Tennessee and a member of the Gangster Disciples, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, Jr., announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, NM - The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a 10-day public scoping period for input on 56 parcels of federal minerals proposed for the June 2019 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The public scoping period will begin January 30 and conclude Feb. 10, 2019. In addition, a two- week public review and comment period of the environmental documents is scheduled to begin March 11 and conclude March 22, 2019. The lease sale is scheduled for June 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Inland Empire man has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his role in scheme that stole victims’ identities and used them to claim more than $800,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $42 million in project selections to support early-stage research and development (R&D) of innovative residential and commercial building technologies for energy efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Jerome Sims, 54, of Crown Point, Indiana, pled guilty to aiding and abetting murder resulting from the use and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that an individual who has used multiple names, including Juan Garcia, Alejandro Villar Dume, and Alberto German Gomez, was sentenced to serve 17 years in prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A tax preparer in Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced Tuesday to six months in custody and six months in home confinement for preparing tax returns containing false information, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced TYQUEL ALSTON, 19, of Henderson, North Carolina to 54 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Titus Parks, age 43, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of 25 counts of False Claims, and 5 counts of Wire Fraud, was sentenced on January 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) reintroduced legislation to increase transparency associated with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hiring and prevent any future administrator from ...
