News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALAA HASAN QALB ALLOUZ, 34, a citizen of Syria last residing in New Haven, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of stalking in violation of a protective order.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, took to the Senate floor to speak out against Republicans’ latest attacks on women’s reproductive rights. She began her speech by criticizing the extreme abortion...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Michael Lee Graves, 20, of Anchorage, has been charged by criminal complaint with illegal possession of a machinegun and possession of an unregistered firearm (silencer). Graves was arrested on the charges on May 7, 2019, and was ordered detained pending trial.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Robert Berger, 35, and Nathaniel Morris, 47, both of Philadelphia, PA, were charged by Indictment with depriving an inmate at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable force. Berger and Morris, both arrested earlier today, were also charged with making false statements relating to the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - Two former corrections officers at the Richwood Correctional Center were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Monroe, Louisiana, for their roles in a conspiracy to cover up the abuse of inmates by officers. The defendants -- Demario Shaffer, 34, of Delhi, Louisiana, and David Parker...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Grant Administrator Misused over $500,000 Intended for Recruiting and Training New Firefighters.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former corrections officer at the South Central Regional Jail, John Edward Roach II, age 47, of Charleston, has been charged with a federal drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. The charge is contained in a federal indictment that was unsealed today following Roach’s arrest. The indictment alleges that on or about April 11, 2019, Roach possessed with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a meeting to present streamflow forecasts and projected reservoir operations for Jackson Lake Dam and other Snake River reservoirs on May 23. The meeting will be held at the 49er Inn conference room, 330 W. Pearl Street, Jackson, Wyoming at 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Rachel Rojas Named Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Broken Bow resident Thomas Christopher Joseph, age 51, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon in Possession of Firearm. The charges arose from an investigation by the Broken Bow Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation to help Americans learn what they will have to pay for health care services before going to see a health provider. The proposal would require Medicare and health insurance companies to give beneficiaries information on the cost and quality of health services and products.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of illegally possessing firearms, including purchasing firearms advertised on the internet, and of stalking two female victims associated with massage parlors in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Giokas, 59, of Clarence, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud for defrauding numerous clients of his investment advisory firm out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, was sentenced to serve 52 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $916,396.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Shelton Shane Chapman, Jr., 20, of Leake County, and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to 7 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for burglary within the Pearl River Community...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service announced today that over 115 miles of the historic motor route in three primary areas will be resurfaced as part of a pavement preservation program on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Work is expected to start in late-May and continue through November of 2019, with no work scheduled...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for threatening to commit violence at women’s reproductive health services clinics in Chicago and northwest Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Defendant previously convicted of federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peeler remembers fallen Savannah officer, born in the Middle District.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: VALDOSTA - A Valdosta doctor was found guilty of health care fraud following a seven-day trial in federal court, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The verdict was announced late in the day yesterday, May 14, 2019, after the jury deliberated...
