News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Yanier Manso-Caballero (30, Miami) to four years and six months in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $53,567.78, the proceeds of the criminal conduct.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Today, Committee Democrats held a markup on H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act. If enacted, this legislation to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour will result in millions of job losses for vulnerable Americans, small business closures, and significant losses to the U.S. economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland returned a 10-count superseding indictment charging Davon Carter, age 39, and Clifton Mosley, age 41, both of Baltimore, Maryland, with two counts of conspiracy to murder a witness and one count each of witness retaliation murder and witness tampering murder, related to the murder of Latrina Ashburne, age 41, on May 27, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Chairs of five House Committees and Subcommittees sent a letter demanding documents that are currently being withheld by the Trump Administration relating to the decision to block the longstanding plan to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ATHENS - A federal judge in Athens on Tuesday sentenced a convicted felon to 110 months in prison for illegally possessing a gun, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The Honorable C. Ashley Royal sentenced Dontavious Maurice Jackson, 30, of Athens...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging DAMON HILL, 39, of Hartford, with one count of possession of a firearm a by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released a new Medium series today titled The Sporting Digest. The first installment investigates how S.47, commonly known as the “public lands package," impacts sporting, outdoor recreation, and our economy. The bill, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland returned a 10-count superseding indictment charging Davon Carter, age 39, and Clifton Mosley, age 41, both of Baltimore, Maryland, with two counts of conspiracy to murder a witness and one count each of witness retaliation murder and witness tampering murder, related to the murder of Latrina Ashburne, age 41, on May 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former Orange County attorney JOSEPH SCALI was sentenced to seven years in prison in connection with SCALI’s conviction for mail fraud, structuring cash transactions, making false statements to...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Protecting Student Borrowers: Loan Servicing Oversight".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Michael Joe, 33, of Whiteriver, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Joe had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Defendant stole more than $230,000 in Social Security retirement benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted a Chicago man on sex trafficking charges for arranging a commercial sex encounter for a 16-year-old girl that ended in the child’s murder in a south suburban garage.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Prithviraj R. Bhikha, a former employee of Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco), was charged in a criminal complaint with wire fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The criminal complaint was unsealed today following Bhikha’s arrest on Friday, March 1, 2019, at the San Francisco International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wrongfully disclosing the health information of another individual, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A jury returned guilty verdicts today in the federal trial of a Russian-born woman accused of unlawfully taking her child out of the United States and keeping the child away from the child’s father in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two contractors - PCL Construction Services Inc. and Universal Engineering Sciences - for safety violations after two employees suffered fatal injuries at a work site for the new JW Marriott Hotel in Orlando.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chairwoman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced that the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Michael Corey Williams, Jr., 32, St. Louis, was sentenced to 123 months in prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Today marks the fourth day of search efforts for James Pruitt, 70, of Etowah, TN in Rocky Mountain National Park. Today searchers are concentrating their efforts in the Lake Haiyaha area, the Chaos Creek area and in heavily forested areas near Bear Lake and the Glacier Gorge Trailhead. Yesterday, search...
