News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Martin Fox, the former president of a private tennis academy in Texas, pleaded guilty today in connection with his involvement in a scheme to use bribery to facilitate the admission of applicants to selective colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Roberto Arroyo-Garcia has pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking on premises where a minor child resides and within 1,000 feet of a school. Arroyo-Garcia and two co-defendants illegally entered the United States from Mexico and then utilized a family home across the street from an elementary school to operate a methamphetamine laboratory and to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: COTTONWOOD, Idaho - Construction on the Pine Bar boat ramp is set to begin on Dec. 2, causing a temporary closure of the ramp and the adjacent parking area. The temporary closure is expected to extend through Feb. 13, 2020, unless work is completed ahead of schedule.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced Rafael Torres, age 35, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Kidnapping, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1201(a)(1), punishable by imprisonment for any term of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sutter Health has agreed to pay $15,117,516 to resolve conduct concerning violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law, as well as double-billing for certain services, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On Oct. 16, 2019, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a two- count indictment against Kevin L. Catlett, 45, of Knoxville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Former Operator of Illegal Booter Services Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Computer Damage and Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Roger J. Stone, Jr., of Florida, was found guilty by a jury today of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related offenses. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Timothy R. Slater, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two individuals were sentenced to prison yesterday for possessing two firearms while, and in the furtherance of, distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Omar Anabo, 57, of Vallejo, to three years in prison for conspiracy to make false statements on loan applications, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Judge Burrell also ordered Anabo to pay $379,068 in restitution to victims of the conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet Chairman John Thune (R-SD), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Subcommittee on...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Hopewell man was sentenced today to nearly 15 years in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Ramone Shirley has been sentenced for possession with the intent to distribute heroin. Shirley is a prior convicted felon who had nearly 200 grams of heroin and two firearms in his possession when officers arrested him in 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) introduced the “Safe, Accountable, Fair, and Environmentally Responsible (SAFER) Pipelines Act of 2019." ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham of the District of Connecticut, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the Boston Regional Office of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner of the FBI’s New Haven Division, and Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: An MS-13 gang member was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a brutal machete attack at a park just outside Dallas, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A new illegal firearms initiative announced today, Project Guardian-DMV, is designed to reduce violent crime and further enforce federal firearms laws across the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Martin Fox, the former president of a private tennis academy in Texas, pleaded guilty today in connection with his involvement in a scheme to use bribery to facilitate the admission of applicants to selective colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Orland Park, Illinois, resident was sentenced yesterday to 13 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal booter services that launched millions of illegal denial of service, or DDoS, attacks against victim computer systems in the United States and elsewhere.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the United States requesting an expedited review of the legality of the appointment of Chad Wolf as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security and Ken Cuccinelli as Acting Deputy Secretary.
