News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: A South Carolina man was indicted in federal court in Cleveland on charges of kidnapping and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The chief executive officer of a string of Savannah-based durable medical equipment companies was sentenced to more than three years in prison for a scheme that defrauded Medicare out of millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The chief executive officer of a string of Savannah-based durable medical equipment companies was sentenced to more than three years in prison for a scheme that defrauded Medicare out of millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, NJ-Perry Mays, of Pleasantville, New Jersey, received the Director’s Community Leadership Award from the Federal Bureau of Investigation at a formal ceremony in Washington, D.C. Special Agent-in-Charge Gregory Ehrie nominated Mays for the award, which will be presented by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a former Ravn Alaska supervisor has been sentenced for his lead role in a mail theft conspiracy, which involved stealing 60 Apple computers and over $100,000 worth of phones and tobacco products from the United States mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Defendant Conspired to Expose Millions of Internet Users to Malicious Advertisements Designed to Hack and Infect Victims’ Computers with Malware.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHRISTOPHER WATSON, age 28, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for charges stemming from his arrest in Jefferson Parish last summer. WATSON was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, three counts of bank fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and four counts of aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - The Bureau of Land Management’s Arctic District Office today announced the closure of winter overland tundra travel for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska effective at 12:01 a.m., Friday, May 3, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - Employees have been working nonstop to clean up the James Kipp Recreation Area after melting snow caused the Missouri River to rise and flood the area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Brian Adrian Sloan, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Newcomb, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in Albuquerque federal court to life imprisonment for his conviction on aggravated child sexual abuse charges, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of IGOR VOROTINOV, 54, for faking his death in order to collect a $2 million life insurance payment. VOROTINOV pleaded guilty earlier today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. VOROTINOV’s...
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-area musician was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for enticing several underage girls, some as young as 14 years old, to produce sexually explicit videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a two-year investigation into one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces, the DEA and other law enforcement partners today announced the arrests of three German nationals who operated the site, which sold illegal drugs and other goods to over a million customers. The three defendants...
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center is celebrating “Trails to Rails" at California Trail Days, an annual event that brings pioneer history to life. This year, the event is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Joseph L. Hughes, a/k/a "Joe King," 27, was arraigned today in federal court on a three-count indictment charging him with enticement of a minor and two counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. According to the indictment, between November 21 and December 8, 2018, Hughes knowingly...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Danny Rydle, 29, of Biddeford, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy and theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On May 2, 2019, Gregory Scott Stephen, age 43, of Monticello, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Northern District of Iowa Judge C.J. Williams to 180 years - the maximum statutory penalty - in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Stephen pleaded guilty on Oct. 18, 2018, to five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA -Clarence Russell Foster, III, of Jane Lew, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Request for Information about implementation of the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS).
