News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit-area doctor was sentenced to 60 months in prison today for his role in a scheme to unlawfully distribute more than 23,000 pills of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for a masked and armed bank robbery.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) occur when the Earth is subjected to changes in the energized particle streams emitted by the Sun. Extremely large GMD events can impact the operation of the electric grid, including electrical and electronic equipment and systems (e.g., high-frequency radio communications, global navigation satellite systems, long-haul telecommunications/internet exchange carrier lines, and electric power transmission).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News woman was sentenced today to approximately 15 years in prison for conspiring with others to commit armed robberies of businesses throughout southeastern Virginia in December 2014.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 2740, an appropriations package that, among other things, would dangerously strip legal authority for counterterrorism operations around the globe...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to strengthen border security and address law enforcement shortages at ports of entry throughout the country advanced in the Senate today. The legislation was unanimously approved by the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Raniere and His Co-Conspirators Operated a Racketeering Enterprise Victimizing Women Through Sex Trafficking and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Memphis Goodwill Industries, Inc. will pay $150,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it submitted claims that falsely certified compliance with regulations involving contracts it had entered into for services rendered to the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the General Services Administration pursuant to the AbilityOne Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Topeka, KS - On Friday, June 14th, the Kansas Fugitive Apprehension Task Force (KFATF), Topeka Division, arrested Tapoleon Hendricks, age 24, in Topeka, Kansas. The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas issued an arrest warrant for Hendricks for violations of supervised release. Hendricks has...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: An East St. Louis police officer is under federal indictment for allegedly taking thousands of dollars in fake overtime pay, U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Mario H. Fennoy, 48, of Lebanon, Illinois, has been charged by a federal grand jury with fraudulently obtaining overtime compensation from the East St. Louis Police Department for nearly a year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced four nominees and 14 bills during a committee business meeting Wednesday. The bills, amendments, nominees, and four postal-naming bills were passed by voice vote unless otherwise noted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Roger Karlsson allegedly defrauded more than 3,500 victims of more than $11 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Shawnee, Kansas, man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of illegally possessing a firearm and possessing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two indictments charging disbarred Memphis attorney Keith L. Dobbs, 39, with a total of sixty-seven federal felony violations. In addition, one indictment seeks the forfeiture of at least $406,533.00 in criminal proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Richard Duncan, 41, of Proctor, Vermont, was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Monday for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ELIZABETH ANN PIERCE, the former chief executive officer (“CEO") of Quintillion, a telecommunications company in Alaska, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 60 months in prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was arrested today based on a federal complaint charging him with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Jordan Goeschel, 27, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced Wednesday in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 12 years in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receiving and distributing child pornography. In addition to his prison sentence, Goeschel will serve 20 years on supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GERARD HARRISON, age 31, of New Orleans, pled guilty to violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act and the federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WEST MEMPHIS-A major arrest operation took place this morning in West Memphis when 22 were arrested as part of a federal drug investigation. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas Cody Hiland and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Justin King of the DEA Little Rock Field Office announced today’s arrests.
