News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a fourteen-count federal indictment charging ALAN DENNIS WOLFF, 56, with sexually exploiting children in the Philippines. WOLFF was initially charged in a criminal complaint on April 5, 2019, and was indicted on May 6, 2019. He is currently in custody in the Sherburne County Jail pending further court proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal judge handed down a 210-month sentence today to an Oregon man guilty of Coercion and Enticement of a Minor, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Colby Ray Cochran, 24, of Warrenton, Oregon, is a registered sex offender in his...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Acadia National Park is on the top ten list of most visited national parks in the United States, welcoming more than 3 million visits a year. Park officials expect the days surrounding Memorial Day - especially from Friday, May 24 through Saturday, May 25 to be a popular time to visit. Visitors are encouraged to plan carefully since parking is limited and expected to fill early.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: CHUGWATER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is pleased to announce their transfer of a wildland fire engine to the Chugwater Rural Fire Protection District on May 3, 2019. The BLM High Plains District transferred the engine under the BLM’s new Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program, which is designed to enhance collaborative wildland firefighting capabilities by providing equipment to local wildland firefighting partners at no cost.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An El Dorado Springs, Mo., woman and a North Plainfield, New Jersey, man were indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RASHAN MICHEL, the owner of a bespoke clothing business in Atlanta, Georgia, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to agreeing to facilitate bribes from a financial adviser to Chuck Connors...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Douglas Wood, 39, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to serve 63 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A controller for a commercial printing company has pleaded guilty to tax and mail fraud charges for embezzling $2.8 million from his employer and failing to report the stolen funds as income to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Sunday, May 26, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will provide a special 1-hour presentation about what it meant to give the “Last Full Measure," which was sometimes not given on the physical battlefield but in the psychological battlefield of the human mind. This program will begin inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center before moving to Tour Stop 8.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that FABIOLA BASTIAN MOJICA, 38, a citizen of Mexico most recently residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to reentry of a removed alien. It is Bastian Mojica’s third conviction for illegal reentry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An illegal alien who had been residing in Frederick, MD, pleaded guilty yesterday to Identity Theft, and has been sentenced in federal court to time served, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was convicted today on charges that he conspired to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Robert Klyvert, 47, of St. Croix, was sentenced Monday for distribution of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Milton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for federal sex trafficking charges.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) awarded its Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Project contractor nearly $3.8 million, or about 48 percent, of the available fee for the performance evaluation period of calendar year 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Wednesday: House Judiciary to Markup Contempt Report for AG Barr
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 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, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s latest hearing on improving patient and provider access to electronic health records. In her remarks, Senator...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Penn National horse trainer Murray Rojas, age 53, of Grantville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 6, 2019, to 27 months’ imprisonment on each of her 14 felony convictions for misbranding prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Kentuckyana Jones admits to over $1.4 million in bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Idaho announced today that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on its Resource Advisory Councils (RACs). These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
