News from June 2019
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Ambassador Greta C. Holtz assumed her duties as Senior Advisor, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, in May 2019. Prior to this, she was Senior Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) to U. S. Special Operations Command. Ambassador Holtz served as the Vice Chancellor and Interim Chancellor of National Defense...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Tywone Noble, 23, of Natchez, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III to possession of a firearm while under a felony indictment, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Dana Nichols, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Caitlin Kenney, age 33, of Clifton Park, New York, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for embezzlement by a bank employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daiquan Hill, 25, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that Spencer Nelson has joined her Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff and that Abigail Hemenway has joined the committee’s non-designated staff. She also welcomed four summer interns who are assisting the committee with various projects ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Columbus, Ohio - A violent Westside drug trafficker was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 197 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Kevin Rakin, the former Chairman and CEO of Advanced BioHealing (ABH), has agreed to pay the government $2.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that he knowingly allowed ABH sales representatives to use kickbacks...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will again be hosting its successful barn restoration workshop June 17-21 at the Miller barn, four miles north of Glen Arbor, Michigan on M-22; turn onto Port Oneida Road and follow the signs. This year marks the 23rd year that the National Lakeshore has hosted and developed this series of “hands-on" workshops which started in 1997. The park maintenance staff is providing the skilled labor to put on this workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Co-conspirator Sentenced for Aiding Kidnapping. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two men have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that led to the kidnapping and torture of an Independence, Mo., man. Gerald L. Holmes, also known as “Jerry" or “Joker," 27, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Aryan Brotherhood Members and Associates Charged with Racketeering for Directing Murders and Other Violent Crimes from Inside California Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a 48-count indictment charging seven people for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin in the Warren and Youngstown areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A former labor union official from Portage County was sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling nearly $200,000 from the union.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Giovanni Deleon, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas woman was arrested and arraigned Wednesday in federal court in connection to a 13-count indictment for using more than 40 stolen identities to collect $170,000 in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Russian-born woman was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison today for unlawfully taking her daughter to Russia and demanding money before allowing the American father to have custody of the girl, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced that Mark Spicer, a/k/a Chief, age 24, of Iowa, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of interstate transportation of an individual under the age of eighteen for purposes of prostitution. Spicer faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years imprisonment up to life. There is no parole in the federal system. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced the names of 47 rural communities and regions that will receive technical assistance (PDF, 141 KB) to help create and implement long-term economic development plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Residents of the Southern District of Illinois returned over three tons of prescription drugs for destruction on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Brannum Owned “Dave’s Tax Service" in Caldwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
