News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK - A licensed pharmacist from Monmouth County, New Jersey, today admitted cashing millions of dollars’ worth of his pharmacy’s checks to evade the payment of income taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: U.S. Obtains Over $25 Million in Forfeited Funds as Part of a Successful Effort to Root Out Fraud and Corruption in Government Contracting in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OSHANE ELLIS, 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing two loaded firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Willard Lee Moss, Jr., of Saint Marys, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months incarceration for a firearms violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Feb. 28, 2019, Francis Macie, Linda Wainwright, Desiree Wells-Cooper, and Juan A. Sanchez, Jr., all of Brattleboro, were arrested and charged with violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act in connection with drug activity at 33 Oak Street, Apt. #4, in Brattleboro, Vermont.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Area students have a better idea of how engineering principles impact their lives thanks to engineers from Fluor Idaho, EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently completed a 12-year effort bringing DOE closer to meeting a 2023 milestone with the state of Idaho that all spent nuclear fuel be transferred to dry storage at the Department’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s hearing on vaccines and preventable disease outbreaks. During her remarks, Senator Murray focused on the importance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Bank Robbery at Weokie Federal Credit Union in Oklahoma City.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A jury has convicted Ronald E. Skelton II, 23, of Springfield, of assaulting a federal agent and assaulting a Clark County Sheriff’s Office deputy assisting the federal agent.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: NAPLES, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited TarHeel Corp. for exposing employees to safety hazards after an employee suffered fatal injuries as a result of a fall at the Forest Glen Community in Naples, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Fulton, Missouri man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in firing shots at law enforcement officers and other motorists during a high-speed pursuit by law enforcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) offered the following statement Tuesday at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s hearing on Joseph V. Cuffari’s nomination to be inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Office today issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nera James, also known as “King," 39, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 67 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute furanyl fentanyl, a fentanyl analogue. James pled guilty on May 30, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Stonewall, Texas - Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is offering additional programming to visitors from March 9 through March 24 at the LBJ Ranch unit. Spring Break at the LBJ Ranch 2019 will offer park visitors the opportunity to further explore and discover the park’s historic resources and delve deeper into the story of the 36th president and the LBJ Ranch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stormey Angel Lois-Hite, of Anmoore, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand today on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: JEMEZ SPRINGS, NM - Effective immediately, Valles Caldera National Preserve will begin restricting vehicle access along the preserve’s main entrance road. Due to warming temperatures, melting snow is impacting road conditions and high water levels on the East Fork Jemez River are threatening to overtop the road. Visitors may still access the preserve on-foot via the Coyote Call and Valle Grande trailheads, and through access points at pull-outs along NM-4.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Raudy Acosta Fernandez, age 32, of Richardson, Texas, entered a guilty plea to Aggravated Identity Theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A(a)(1), punishable by not more than 2 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that OLUKAYODE IBRAHIM LAWAL, 36, a citizen of Nigeria last residing in Smyrna, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately 10 months of imprisonment, time already served, for his role in a scheme to obtain the personal identifying information of school employees in Connecticut and elsewhere.
