News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Amanda Ivey, 45, of Lexington, TN has been sentenced to 185 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute actual methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: WVDEP Employee Made Over $61,000 in Fraudulent Purchases with State Credit Card.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: An East St. Louis police officer appeared in federal district court today and pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Maksim Zaslavskiy was sentenced by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 18 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to commit securities fraud. The conspiracy stemmed from two Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - REcoin Group Foundation, LLC (“REcoin")...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Amanda Ivey, 45, of Lexington, TN has been sentenced to 185 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute actual methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: As U.S. Attorney, I am charged with leading the federal response to our most pressing criminal problems. We have spent considerable resources in the fights against the opioid epidemic and violent crime in western Pennsylvania. Together with our state and local law enforcement partners, we prosecuted...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Denver Metroplex project.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statements after House lawmakers included a provision that would prevent a $7.6 billion cut to Federal highway funding, known as a rescission, in a stopgap spending bill. The House is expected to take up the bill tomorrow.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the team from University of Maryland, Baltimore County as the national winner of DOE’s 2019 CyberForce Competition™. CyberForce 2019 is DOE’s fifth iteration of its cyber defense competition, designed to inspire and develop the next generation of energy sector cybersecurity professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Mayor accepted a $5,000 illegal cash payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Hopewell man was sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS ANTONIO HERNANDEZ, 57, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a kidnapping and extortion scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Rodney Ticanis Sparrow pleaded guilty today to committing wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud business owners of fees for promised business loans announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea was accepted by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth woman pleaded guilty today to being an illegal drug user in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Daniel Emerson Norton, 52, formerly of Arlington, Va. and the owner of Torrance, Calif.-based Emerson Company, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 96 months in prison. Norton fraudulently secured approximately $2.2 million in contracts to provide critical parts to the U.S. Department of Defense, which he then filled with defective parts made in China, in violation of the Buy American Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Harrisburg International Airport prevented a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, man from bringing a.380 caliber handgun loaded with seven bullets onto an airplane yesterday, November 17. It marked the fifth caught at the checkpoint so far this year. TSA officers detected six guns at the airport last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Miquise Jones, a/k/a Scaife, 22, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering and narcotics conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: A citizen and resident of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty today in Miami, Florida, to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts in the United States and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Dante Emmanuel Hall, 32, of Portland, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, a federal jury convicted twenty-eight year old Jory D’Michael Trayvunn Dumas, from Montgomery, Alabama, of theft from a gaming establishment on tribal lands and conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The jury found that Dumas conspired with others to steal nearly $200,000.00 from the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery.
