News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Olaf Janke, a former owner and chief financial officer of Aequitas Management, LLC and several other Aequitas-owned entities, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -Arafat Aljubeh (54, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder the proceeds of a conspiracy involving the distribution of a synthetic marijuana referred to as “AB-FUBINACA." At the time of the offense, Aljubeh was on federal supervised release stemming from a 2014 federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Hector M. Garza, Jr., age 48, his wife, Tammy L. Garza, age 37, of Richland Washington, and their companies, HTG Trucking, LLC, and Freedom Fuel, Inc., pled guilty to fraud and false statement charges in connection with a renewable energy fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former West Covina resident was sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for uploading images of child pornography to a Russian photo-sharing website and publishing an advertisement that sought to exchange sexually-explicit images of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Travis Martin, 34, Richland Center, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 14 days in jail, in addition to the nearly 27 months Martin has already served, for making threatening communications. This term of imprisonment will be followed by three years of supervised release. Martin pleaded guilty to this charge on April 3, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Steven Perry, age 55, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. upon his plea of guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - STEVEN MARIO ALFORD ORECCHIO, 46, of Ponca City, has been sentenced to forty years in federal prison for distributing on the Internet videos of his own graphic sexual abuse of minors, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 17 projects to receive approximately $39 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development under funding opportunity announcement Improving Efficiency, Reliability, and Flexibility of Existing Coal-Based Power Plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Tayon Hutchins Fowler, 41, of Florissant, was indicted on Thursday with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of making false statements about being disabled to the Social Security Administration (“SSA"). Fowler surrendered this morning to U.S. Marshals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Mo., woman who purchased the firearm used by a 14-year-old in a fatal shooting has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to defrauding investors of a local newspaper and unlawful possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Asked His Employer to Put His Wages in His Wife’s Name to Avoid Losing Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men who formerly owned a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock were arrested this morning on federal charges that allege a scheme to use stolen T-Mobile employee credentials to illegally infiltrate the mobile phone company’s internal computer systems to “unlock" cell phones so they could...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Keith M. Moses, age 31, of Paterson, New Jersey, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - June 10, 2019 - Jimmy Johnson, Jr., 45, of LaVergne, Tennessee, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Johnson was indicted in March 2018 and pleaded guilty in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Olaf Janke, a former owner and chief financial officer of Aequitas Management, LLC and several other Aequitas-owned entities, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES MOORE was convicted at trial last Friday of wire fraud and conspiracy for engaging in a scheme to defraud investors by making material misrepresentations about the management and operations of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tara Ponceroff, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 years incarceration for child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2019
News Release: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, June 7, 2019-"Lessons in the Tradition of Atwater" is the title of George A. Bray's 2019 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) W. O. Atwater Memorial Lecture, to be delivered at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting on Sunday, June 9, in Baltimore.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2019
News Release: ALAMOGORDO - At approximately 4:00 pm, Saturday, June 8, 2019, White Sands National Monument rangers responded to a call reporting that a person needed help on the Alkali Flat Trail. Responding park law enforcement rangers discovered an unresponsive male less than one mile from the trailhead.
