News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A property developer and manager has been arrested on charges stemming from a scheme to defraud real estate investors, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Manassas man was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for illegal reentering the United States following removal after a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA - Samsung Heavy Industries Company Limited (Samsung Heavy Industries), a South Korea-based engineering company that provides shipbuilding, offshore platform construction, and other construction and engineering services, has agreed to pay total penalties of more than $75 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - The very popular group campsite at the Fort Pickens Area of Gulf Islands National Seashore is set for a major upgrade next week. Starting Monday, contractors will replace the outdated restroom facility at the group campsite with a new facility to better serve campers. The work is expected to be contained within the group camping area and should not impact normal park operations for visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Anthony Farca was charged in a criminal complaint with making a false statement to a government agency, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F Bennett.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $7.2 million in airport infrastructure grants to Newton City-County Airport in the state of Kansas. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Brandon Hall, 23, a former Fort Polk Soldier from Yakima, Washington, was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2019, by U.S. District Judge James D. Cain Jr., to 15 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, for production of child pornography. Hall pleaded guilty on April 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - David A. Dodd, 45, of Peoria, Ill., has been ordered to serve 15 years in prison for possession of “ice" methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. At sentencing, on Nov. 20, Senior U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade further ordered that Dodd remain on supervised release for 10 years following his release from incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man arrested by Newport Police members of the DEA Drug Task Force in August 2018 as he arrived at a pre-determined location in Newport to deliver heroin he arranged to sell to an undercover Newport Police Department detective was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has repeatedly asked local jurisdictions to reconsider non-cooperation policies because those policies put politics before public safety. On Friday, ICE released more examples of foreign nationals with active ICE detainers who have been detained...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $6.6 million in airport infrastructure grants to Ainsworth Regional Airport in the state of Nebraska. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant was previously convicted in Virginia of sexual battery on a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Westborough man was arrested today for trafficking in contraband smokeless tobacco.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal jury has convicted TOMMY DEAN BULLCOMING, 55, of Hammon, Oklahoma, of first-degree felony murder in Indian Country and related offenses, announced Timothy J. Downing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Blue Nile Contractors Inc. - based in Birmingham, Missouri - for failing to protect employees from trench collapse and electrical hazards. The company faces $210,037 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was charged today in federal court with participating in the robbery of a Des Plaines bank earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal judge sentenced 35-year-old ringleader Andrew Sanchez (aka “Freight," “Hakeem") to 15 years in federal prison for his role in a narcotics distribution operation on San Antonio’s eastside, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former member of Paraguay’s Congress, her husband and another senior member of a Paraguayan money exchange business are charged by complaint for their participation in an international money laundering conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $4.7 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Alabama. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The investigation and prosecution dubbed Operation Vanilla Gorilla reached its ultimate milestone this week with the federal prison sentence of the final defendant, representing the wrap-up one year after indictments.
