News from May 2019
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On May 15, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a fugitive wanted by Salvadoran authorities for aggravated homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide, and terrorist organization membership.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Third Nevada Family Member Sentenced to Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: HELENA-A woman who stole approximately $219,980 from Kmart stores in 11 states, including Montana, was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Vorarut Vorasiangsuk (36, Orlando) guilty of two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. For each count of receipt of child pornography, Vorasiangsuk faces a minimum mandatory penalty of five years, and up to 20 years in federal prison. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years for the possession count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Texas woman was part of Nigerian conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that District Judge Lance Africk sentenced TIMMY SCOTT a/k/a “TIMOTHY SCOTT," a 24-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and KADEEM BURDEN, a 23-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 120 months each in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Justin W. May, age 37, of Edinburg, New York, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing a machinegun, and manufacturing marijuana.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) along with U.S. Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Angus King (I-Maine), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) held...
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) urging him publicly release the nonpublic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) he executed with Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters as part of a coordinated and carefully managed campaign to use congressional oversight to attack the President for political gain.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga: A Texas woman who helped steal nearly a quarter-million dollars from an Augusta attorney faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty in a jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national residing in Lawrence pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A federal jury sitting in Denver found Troy Andrew Lujan, age 36, of Lakewood, Colorado, guilty of two counts related to the distribution of methamphetamine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn and Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nolan Donald, 20, of Lyndonville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to being an unlawful drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition, and possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing marijuana. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal jury in Portland returned guilty verdicts today against a Portland man who was accused of distributing large quantities of methamphetamine throughout Multnomah County, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LUIDJI BENJAMIN, a/k/a “Zoe," was found guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a minor following a five-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Chairman; Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader, and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Minority Leader; Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chairwoman of the House...
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: LINCOLN, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited T.H. Construction Co. after two employees suffered serious injuries when a trench collapsed at a construction site in Lincoln, Nebraska. OSHA proposed penalties of $106,078 for one willful violation of its trench safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ike Joel Mitchell, age 33, of Kershaw County, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to two counts of possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin...
