News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken-based accountant today admitted failing to pay more than $914,000 in taxes on income generated from his accounting firm and various rental properties he owned, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 139 months in prison for attempted robbery and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and six other Democratic leaders on national security issues, today raised concerns over the Trump Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Timothy J. Downing has taken the oath of office as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Chief U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton administered the oath this morning in chambers so Mr. Downing could take up his duties immediately. A formal investiture will be announced at a later date.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $840 million in airport infrastructure grants, the first allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 842,000 visitors to Cabrillo National Monument in 2018 spent $49.7 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 654 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the San Diego economy of $67.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Oral Roberts University to Pay Over $300,000 for Allegedly Violating Ban on Incentive Compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: DURANGO - Wendell Mills, Jr., age 21, of Towaoc, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve over 10 years (121 months) in federal prison, followed by 3 years on supervised release for attempting to murder a federal police officer, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. Mills appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody, and was remanded at its conclusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man pleaded guilty today to bribing a United States Navy contracting officer on two occasions in connection with federal construction projects worth approximately $1 million in Singapore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - A former captain at the Richwood Correctional Center was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of five inmates. Roderick Douglas, 38, of Monroe, Louisiana, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with five other corrections officers to violate the Constitutional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Franklin Police Department officer has waived Indictment and pleaded guilty in federal court to a felony Information charging her with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on June 4, 2019, Jessica L. Snavely, age 26, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. Snavely was sentenced to ten years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: A man who fired his weapon at FBI agents attempting to arrest him in Delaware County, in October 2018, pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting federal officers, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that EUGENE MCGEE, age 28, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: A former bank loan officer was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for defrauding Oklahoma State Bank, in Vinita, of more than $175,000, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A Fort Lupton man pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to distribution and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips, and U.S. Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Denver Sheriff’s Deputy Sylvia Montoya, age 46, and Timothy Spikes, age 36, both from Denver, were charged with drug trafficking crimes. Spikes also faces a federal firearm charge. The arrests were announced by U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge David Booth. At yesterday’s detention hearing Spikes was ordered held in custody without bond while Montoya was released on bond.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) will run four railroad passenger excursions during the month of June.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park and the Western Science Center have partnered on an exhibit which features fossil specimens from around the area of the park during the Ice Age. From now until September 29th, visitors will be able to view approximately 30 paleontological specimens which include a camel, wolf, llama, horse, bison and mammoth. Also included are specimens of a bighorn and saber-toothed cat that were discovered on Bureau of Land Managment lands just south of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant fraudulently obtained over $90,000. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mingo County woman was sentenced to six months of federal incarceration for fraudulently obtaining Social Security Income benefits, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Elizabeth Muncy, 43, of Kermit, Mingo County, West Virginia...
