News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gary Drago, 59, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of witness tampering and failure to file an income tax return, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to serve 47 months in prison. The defendant was also ordered to pay $129,793 in restitution to the victim and $19,007 restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Franklin Township police officer was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for using excessive force as a law enforcement officer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 226 to 203 vote, a package of fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills. The package consists of four bills that fund federal departments including Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, and Energy from Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif - Seven months after the Woolsey Fire, an initiative that began in 2014 to reintroduce the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) into the Santa Monica Mountains is struggling to regain its footing after perhaps hundreds of frogs perished. Photos here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced that GEORGE PAPADAKOS, the former Director of Finance of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, a citizen of Sweden, and his company, Eastern Metal Securities (EMS), were charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson; Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: A National Park Service (NPS) study found that in 2018, 1.1 million park visitors spent an estimated $67.0 million in local gateway regions while visiting Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. These expenditures supported a total of 1,020 jobs, $31.5 million in labor income, $54.3 million in value added, and $93.9 million in economic output in local gateway economies surrounding the preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Plea Agreements Call for Total Sentence of 30 to 40 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jack Hiller, 55, of Port Crane, New York pled guilty today to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Keith Raniere, the founder and leader of Nxivm, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all seven counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering and racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy; forced labor conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - Early this afternoon, this week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Kaylene Loranger, 32, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in an apartment in the 400 block of Laconia Road in Tilton, NH. Loranger was wanted on an arrest warrant issued out of the Belknap County Superior Court in Laconia, NH for failing to appear on charges of criminal threatening with a firearm and reckless conduct with a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a man to life in prison for forcing women and children to engage in commercial sex acts in Chicago and the suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RASHAD JOHNSON, 27, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Winford Lamont Henley, age 45, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Possession Of Firearm In Furtherance Of Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code...
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: 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 DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited national discount retailer Dollar Tree Store Inc. for exposing employees to safety hazards at its store on Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company faces $104,192 in penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, in advance of a hearing on the federal government’s inadequate response to the drug crisis, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that some of the top medical groups in the United States have endorsed landmark legislation he...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Following a hearing for alleged violations of supervised release conditions, Senior United States District Judge Donetta Ambrose sentenced Tyrone Mobley, age 52, previously convicted of theft of U.S. mail on Dec. 19, 2016, to 21 months’ incarceration with 11 months of supervised release to follow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: 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, and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction in relation to his plan to attack a church in Pittsburgh.
