News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Justice Department and Louisiana Supreme Court Reach Agreement to Provide Language Assistance for Individuals Not Proficient in English.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, responded to revelations that generic drug companies reportedly engaged in an effort to obstruct a 2014 congressional investigation launched by the two lawmakers into the firms’ price-fixing practices...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer today admitted conspiring with other officers to violate the civil rights of individuals in Paterson, and to filing a false police report to conceal his criminal activity, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: FBI Releases 2018 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Victor Ramel Chancler Witcher, of Akron, Ohio, has admitted to methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Raul Mejia Pereida appeared in U.S. District Court in Kalamazoo for sentencing in connection with a fraudulent scheme he carried out with codefendant Allen Dean Gordon Clayborn. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney sentenced Pereida to 27 months in prison for his role in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Jesse James Marquez was sentenced on Friday to 33 months in prison for his role in the theft and subsequent sale of 55 firearms from a sporting goods store in Eureka, California, in August 2015. The sentence was imposed by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. Senior District Judge.
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: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Six southern Missouri residents are among 15 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy that involved multi-pound shipments of methamphetamine transported from Arizona to Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - A “pill mill" physician who oversaw the illegal prescription of nearly a million units of narcotics with no legitimate medical purpose was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas Field Division and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 13, 2019 - a 48-count indictment handed down last week, charged Patrick Martin, 48, of Gainesboro, Tennessee, with two counts of federal program theft, 30 counts of wire fraud, one count of possession of a forged security of an organization, 12 counts of failure to collect or pay...
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a final rule that revises 14 provisions in the recordkeeping, general industry, maritime, and construction standards that may be confusing, outdated, or unnecessary. The revisions are expected to increase understanding and compliance with the provisions, improve employee safety and health, and save employers an estimated $6.1 million per year.
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: U.S. ATTORNEY RECOGNIZES NATIONAL POLICE WEEK.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - United States Attorney James Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Terrance Washington, 32, of Elmira, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue and witness retaliation, was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Allegany, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of mail by postal employee, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield today to his role in a heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A 24-count indictment was unsealed in federal court today charging former Portland attorney Lori E. Deveny, 53, with mail, wire and bank fraud; aggravated identity theft; money laundering and both filing false tax returns and failing to file tax returns as part of a scheme to defraud her clients and use the proceeds to pay for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Honduran citizen who is currently charged in state court with alleged sex offenses against a minor pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: ITHACA, NEW YORK, May 13, 2019-Almost everyone agrees that store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor. Now, scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI ) may have spotlighted the solution in a paper just published in Nature Genetics.
