News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Court Also Ordered Defendant to Pay More than $1.2 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - On June 12 to 14, in Cartagena, Colombia, prosecutors from Colombia, Mexico, and the United States came together for the second Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO) Working Group. The mission of the Working Group is to engage in specialized training and to develop joint strategies and best practices to dismantle the transnational criminal organizations that threaten the three nations.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: West Valley City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) West Desert District has issued a fire prevention order that addresses year-round and seasonal fire restrictions. These restrictions apply to BLM-managed lands in Box Elder, Cache, Juab, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch, and Weber Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DAVID WAGNER and MARC LAWRENCE were arrested this morning...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “The State of the Rail Workforce." The hearing will explore the current issues facing the rail workforce, including employment cutbacks and safety issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Dwayne Dollison Jr., 36, and Kenneth Martin Douglas, 34, both of Anchorage, were found guilty yesterday after a 7-day federal jury trial. The jury found Dollison and Douglas guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy, possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and for being felons in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New Salem man was charged yesterday in federal court in Springfield with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that COURTNEY C. DUPLESSIS (“DUPLESSIS"), age 30, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday for Theft of Mail, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Benjamin Kabourek, 36, of Omaha was sentenced today in federal court for distributing child pornography. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Kabourek to 5 years’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Highfield, 64, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court on June 4, 2019, to 330 months in prison on six counts of production of visual depictions of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: A former Miramar Police Department employee was sentenced to prison today for participating in a fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of PAUL R. HANSMEIER, 37, to 168 months in prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to obtain payments from extortion victims to settle sham copyright infringement lawsuits by lying to state and federal courts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Greek cargo ship operator and two chief engineers of one of its ships have been named in a five-count federal indictment charging them with failing to record the illegal dumping of oily waste into international waters and then obstructing justice by ordering the ship’s crew to lie about it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with the fraudulent abuse of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Informed Delivery electronic notification system.
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: IBM Agrees to Pay $14.8 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: EMINENCE, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways and Current River State Park will be offering free paddling clinics each Sunday from June 16 through August 18. These free clinics are open to twelve participants each week, so pre-registration is required.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Raul Cotto-Rivera, age 41, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 11, 2019, to 262 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane for drug trafficking offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar raising questions over a newly unveiled memo that includes internal analysis on the harmful impacts of Trump Administration policy changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Hendrix, Jr., age 39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 13, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 262 months’ imprisonment to be followed by six years of supervised release for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
