News from June 2019
By Commerce News Now | Jun 14, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on June 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISO ― The 2019 NBA Finals events and games played in the Bay Area filled Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors fans with much excitement, creating a desire among many of them to commemorate their experiences with the purchase of NBA sports clothing and other merchandise. However, many unsuspecting fans could have been victims of purchasing counterfeit merchandize.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Frederick Edward Patterson, Jr., 45, of Theodore, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court today, on drug and gun charges. Patterson pled guilty to the two charges, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking felony, on March 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for two hours, a federal jury found Samirkumar J. Shah guilty of two counts of health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen National Park Highway is scheduled to open to through traffic on Saturday, June 22 at 4:30 pm. Visitors can expect to choose from springtime activities in the Manzanita Lake area or spring snow conditions in the Southwest Area of the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on reports that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin misled the House Financial Services Committee about putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Pickens County Sheriff to Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Cúram Software have agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle allegations under the federal False Claims Act that they made material misrepresentations to the State of Maryland during the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange contract award process for the development of Maryland’s Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) website and IT platform.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: FORT WORTH, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Southern Tire Mart LLC - based in Columbia, Mississippi - for failing to protect employees from serious safety hazards after a worker suffered fatal injuries while attempting to mount a monster truck tire rim at the company’s retreading facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The company faces $341,195 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Harry Jim, Jr., 36, of Fruitland, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Donald Jackson, age 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 12, 2019, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
Release: BOSTON - Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston Logan International Airport stopped a woman from sneaking four knives onto an airplane when they were detected hidden in her knee brace on June 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Navarro-Velez, age 33, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on June 6, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -A federal jury has convicted Gerdandino Delgado-Escobar, a/k/a “Pumba," age 24, of Hyattsville, a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion. The verdict was returned late on June 13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Johnny Fletcher, age 41, formerly of South Carolina and currently an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Canaan, pleaded guilty on June 12, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to assault on a correctional officer and was immediately sentenced to serve an additional 15 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Defendant Shot a Woman Twice in the Leg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Yahaira Diaz, 33, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, and access device fraud. The charges against the defendant stem from her participation in what has been popularly dubbed the “Grandparents Scheme", a type of elder financial abuse. The charges come one day in advance of “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" on June 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JACQUELINE GRAHAM was convicted at trial on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, of participating in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud in connection with a fraudulent debt-elimination scheme to defraud homeowners and banks. GRAHAM was found guilty of the one count she faced after a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Román.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese born naturalized U.S. citizen living in Lexington, and a company he and his wife established, were charged in federal court in Boston in connection with stealing proprietary information from his former employer, Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a semiconductor company headquartered in Norwood. Yu is also charged with allegedly selling and illegally exporting integrated circuits that incorporated ADI’s stolen trade secrets.
