News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT MERLO was sentenced today to 42 months in prison and STEPHEN DECKER was sentenced on June 12, 2019, to 57 months in prison for participating in a scheme to steal more than $2 million in stock certificates...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to a Bloomberg report that the Trump administration is considering indexing the capital gains rate to inflation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Reynaldo Salinas, age 27 of San Antonio, faces federal prison time after a jury this afternoon found him guilty of attempted enticement of a minor and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: All five defendants have been previously arrested on drug charges under the names of the victims whose identities they have stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Seven individuals, listed below, were arrested in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties in connection to the operation and dismantlement of a large-scale prescription drug distribution organization...
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that seven people were charged today by Indictment with conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Those charged are Hamlet Tantushyan, 35, of Glendale, CA; Verzh Movsisyan, 41, of Glendale, CA; Armen Sahakyan, 41, of Burbank, CA; David Daldumyan, 29, of Van Nuys, CA; Hrchya Gyulumyan, 39, of Sun Valley, CA; Gevush Gabrielyan, 27, of North Hollywood, CA; and Roman Gridjusko, 30, of Philadelphia, PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - James Medeiros was sentenced to 84 months in prison for using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES RIPBERGER, 63, of Glastonbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 150 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Three San Bernardino County women were arrested today on federal charges that allege a scheme in which they fraudulently collected nearly $1 million in federal student aid for 235 “students" - the vast majority of whom never attended any classes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management New Mexico raised $2,875,372 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held June 20, 2019. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Region (“DOL-OIG"), Andriana Vamvakas, New York Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor Office of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that CLINICAL SCIENCE LABORATORY, INC. and its owners, STANLEY ELFBAUM and LOUIS AMORUSO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: A Toledo pastor was sentenced to life in prison for sex trafficking a minor and other crimes, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- The National Park Service invites you to celebrate Independence Day on the National Mall! Complete information and updates on the Independence Day celebration can be found at www.nps.gov/foju.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write in strong opposition to the proposed rollbacks to the regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex (including, but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, false...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Conery Alan Morse, 32, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to transport stolen goods, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Cesium atomic clocks are controlled for export for national security and anti-terrorism reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: A Davie resident who possessed a firearm and ammunition was sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and required to forfeit his interest in the firearm and ammunition.
