News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND -Alan Piwowar, 34, of Highland, Indiana was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen after pleading guilty to production and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The former Chief Executive Officer of a northwest suburban nutrition company has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for engaging in a market manipulation scheme to artificially inflate the company’s stock price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Omar Faruq, 37, of Pennsauken, New Jersey, and co-conspirator Omar Ali, 36, also of Pennsauken, New Jersey, both entered pleas of guilty before United States District Court Judge Nitza I. Quiñones on one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, aiding another in the filing of a false tax return, and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Andres Garcia-Mora, 28, a Mexico citizen, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. for illegally re-entering the United States after being previously deported six times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Sarcoxie, Missouri man who was earlier charged with illegally possessing firearms and ammunition has been indicted by a federal grand jury on additional charges of illegally possessing an unregistered silencer and selector switches to convert semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found AMAURY VLADIMIR REYES-BATISTA, 43, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man from Detroit, Michigan, pled guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eddie Riago-Javone Bryant, 27, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin before Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Paul J. Stabile, 39, of Cranston, faces 10 years to life in federal prison when he is sentenced in September, having pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the need to pass election security legislation after President Trump welcomed another attack on our elections and democratic institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the June 2019 Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew A. Urquhart, 32, of Seneca Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a lifetime term of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the establishment of the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for six...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND-Robert Nieto, also known as “Cowboy," 45, of Gary, Indiana, and a member of the Chicago-based Latin Kings, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Phillip Simon following his conviction at trial last May of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is accepting sealed, written bids for the commercial harvesting of pine nut units in the BLM Battle Mountain, Elko and Ely districts. The deadline to submit a bid is 9:30 a.m. PDT, Tuesday, Aug. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew A. Urquhart, 32, of Seneca Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a lifetime term of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - After analyzing natural resource conditions on some of its public lands in Madison County, the Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office has released the East Bench Watershed Environmental Assessment for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The former president of the village of Posen pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges he embezzled money from the south suburb and spent it at casinos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN ANTHONY MARSH, age 55, of Atlanta, Georgia pled guilty yesterday to a one-count bill of information charging him with identity theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Has 24 Prior Criminal Convictions. A Cedar Rapids man who sold heroin near an intermediate school in Cedar Rapids was sentenced today to 41 months in prison. Andre Daniel Wilks, age 45, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison sentence after a Nov. 19, 2018 guilty plea to distribution of a controlled...
