News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Court Finds RM Broadcasting Must Register as a Foreign Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Mason County man who threatened two employees of the Putnam Public Service District with a machinegun and stole their company truck last year in Teays Valley was convicted today after a one-day bench trial of multiple federal offenses. Justin Michael Wilson, 20, was convicted of ...
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002004, Low Cost, Efficient Treatment Technologies for Produced Water.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: National Police Week is observed from Sunday, May 12 - Saturday, May 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, which is being observed Sunday, May 12 to Saturday, May 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Nicholas J. Patten, 27, of Williston, Vermont was sentenced to 48 months in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Saul E. Pacheco, age 38, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring with another person to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in Columbia County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Beaver County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 8 years (96 months) in prison and five years supervised release on his conviction of violations of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County doctor has been charged with distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and falsifying medical records to cover it up, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, which is being observed Sunday, May 12 to Saturday, May 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two California parents charged in the college admissions case pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered One of the Stolen Guns at a Homicide in Arcata in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Leavenworth man was sentenced Monday to 121 months in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $6,500 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Josiah Ferrebee, age 22, of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on May 9, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to production and attempted to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced the filing of a Bill of Information Friday, May 10, 2018 charging ARNOLD TREVELL WILLIAMS, age 37, of New Orleans, Louisiana, with one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - - Three defendants who committed drug offenses last year in Huntington were sentenced today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Steven Jamar Alexander, 33, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Robert E. Hughes Named Special Agent in Charge of the Milwaukee Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - BOBBY VON ROGERS, 38, of Moore, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Josh J. Minkler recognized the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, and commented on the FBI's 2018 Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that Selective Marketplace Ltd. (“Selective"), of Loughborough, England, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the U.S. under which it will pay a total of $610,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA"). The FCA is the government’s primary civil remedy to redress false claims involving government funds.
