News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that the former treasurer of Swink Public School, Lori Rae Baskin, age 50, of Swink, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 4 years’ probation for Theft from Organization Receiving Federal Program Funds, in violation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, sent a letter to inform Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney that, due to the Trump Administration’s complete...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: WINTER HARBOR, MAINE - The Frazer Point pier will be temporarily closed for upgrades beginning on Wednesday July 17 and extending into mid-September. The upgrades will make the pier accessible by adding a ramp as well as removal and replacement of the decaying wooden deck. The existing stone piers will remain.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Cave tours at Wind Cave National Park have been suspended pending elevator repairs. A safety problem was identified last Friday which necessitated the shutdown. Cave tours may be canceled for longer than a month while parts are ordered, manufactured, and installed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to the House of Representatives’ lawsuit to force the Trump administration to comply with congressional requests for tax return information under section 6103 of the tax code...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Demetrius Dwayne Swinton, a/k/a “Million Dolla Meat," age 31, of Ridgeland, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine. United...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: [NEW]. Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:00AM. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. Washington, D.C. Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Hearing. RE: “Building Opportunity in Rural America through Affordable, Reliable and High-Speed Broadband".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the June 28, 2019 return of an indictment charging two New York men with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dillon T. Boyington, 35, of Gates, NY, who was convicted of attempted online enticement of a minor, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: A 25-year-old Lakeway, TX, man faces federal production, distribution and possession of child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The former Vice President of the Louisville Metro Police Officer’s Credit Union has been charged and pleaded guilty to a two count Information with fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GARY TURNER was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the April 2018 murder of 17-year-old Samuel Ozuna. TURNER was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman, before whom TURNER previously pled guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Castelo, 43, of Memphis was sentenced to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former member of the Virginia General Assembly was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for his role in a conspiracy that resulted in the fraudulent award of over $80 million in government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield with extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - United States Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced today Cesar Rivera-Figueroa, aka Fat Boy, 28, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. The charge carries mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Wilbert, 43, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Pilchak (619) 546-9709 or Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted an Evanston man on robbery and firearm charges in connection with three violent gas station heists in the north suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Deviassi Adams, 41, of Jackson, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven J. Jensen with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
