News from May 2019
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 DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Joshua Isaiah Potter, age 22, of District Heights, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his participation in a series of commercial robberies in which the robbers brandished a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Third verification pharmacist sentenced today. BOSTON - Two former verification pharmacists at New England Compounding Center (NECC) were convicted yesterday of violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). The convictions mark the fourth and final trial resulting from the 2014 indictment of NECC...
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) yesterday sent a letter to Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the chairman and ranking member respectively of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, urging them to hold a hearing on President Trump’s nomination...
By USDA Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that dairy producers who had coverage under the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy), which provided payments to producers when the price of milk fell below the feed costs to produce it, are eligible to receive a repayment for part of the premiums paid into the program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Boston men have been sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Murphy Alex Begay, 41, of Pinon, Ariz., was convicted by a jury of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Begay will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan in July.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Late yesterday, Ashland cardiologist Dr. Richard E. Paulus was sentenced, by U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning, to serve 60 months in federal prison for health care fraud and false statements. In October 2016, a federal jury convicted Paulus, 71, of one count of health care...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: The last of four defendants was sentenced to prison their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the MetroHealth Hospital System and others through a series of bribes and kickbacks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars related to the hospital’s dental program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SMYRNA, GA-The FBI and Smyrna Police Department are asking for the public’s help identifying at least two suspects who robbed a Brinks armored car. One of the suspects was armed with an assault style rifle. Brinks is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the suspects.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park will host a program that will celebrate the 27th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream" World Peace Rose Garden Inspirational Message of Peace Contest. The program will take place on Thursday, May 9, 2019 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church at 407 Auburn Avenue, N.E.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Three men from Flora, Illinois, have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with methamphetamine-related offenses, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
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 US DOT Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement praising President Trump's announcement that he intends to nominate Rob Wallace to be assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Needs Your Help Identifying a Serial Armed Robber.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $33.5 million for early-stage research and development of advanced building construction techniques to reduce energy bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that N & F Logistics, Inc., a shipping and trucking business located in Harahan, Louisiana, was charged Tuesday, April 30, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with unlawful employment of an alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. '' 1324a (a)(1)(A) and (f)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 3, 2019 -Randall Griffin, 46, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison, for operating an embezzlement scheme, during which he stole more than $1 million from his former employer, Lasko Products, LLC., announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Rocky Mountain District is seeking public nominations for two positions on its Resource Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal agents this week arrested seven people indicted in April on charges that they conspired to distribute marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
