News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Houston, Minnesota, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anibal Luis Rodriguez, age 28, who resided in Pottsville, Reading, and Allentown during the time of the offense, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 20 years’ imprisonment for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced McEndy Alce (33, Immokalee) to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. The court also ordered Alce to forfeit two iPhones and an iPod Touch that had been used to facilitate the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Andreika Mouzon, age 29, of Kingstree, and Flossie Brockington, age 29, of Columbia, pleaded guilty to federal charges involving a scheme to defraud and extort military service members. Mouzon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and Brockington pleaded guilty to money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to nearly five years in prison for his second conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that on July 31, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fourth distribution of $469.6 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Payments Are the Fourth Distribution in a Series of Payments That Together Will Constitute the Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH. - On Aug. 15, 2019 join Isle Royale National Park and the Portage Lake District Library for Ranger III Family Day. Families may participate in any or all of the following scheduled events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Tuscaloosa man who tried to run over a Tuscaloosa police officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Marcus Watson.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Sumner County man was sentenced today to serve a year on probation and pay a $1,000 fine for trying to get out of a traffic ticket by pretending to be an FBI agent, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Demetrius Davenport, 31, of Auburn, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 2½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of felony offenses. Davenport pled guilty to the charge on March 11, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Over the course of the last four days, grid searchers, trackers, and numerous dog teams have searched a five mile radius intensely looking for any clues as to Lynch’s direction of travel. Searchers have hiked all trails in the area looking for Lynch, posting informational flyers at trailheads, and interviewing hikers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - George Alexis Theros, 76, was arrested yesterday and charged by criminal complaint with engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, in violation of 18 United States Code § 2423(c). He made an initial appearance in federal court on July 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Chinese Billionaire also Accused of Defrauding Investors by Inflating Value of Publicly Traded Company Through Sham Sales of Aluminum Stockpiled in U.S.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that BEVAN COONEY was sentenced today by the U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams to 30 months in prison for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity and the subsequent sale of those bonds through fraudulent and deceptive means.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Black Hawk County Sheriff Had Denied His Application for a Gun Permit in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Defendant Operated a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Business in Great Neck and Chicago.
