News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Mordechai Boaziz (68, Fort Lauderdale) and Jonathan Marmol (41, Odessa) have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make false statements to financial institutions. Each faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the recent convictions of five additional defendants charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. The charges stem from a lengthy federal, state, and local investigation that has spanned...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Government Also Files Civil Fraud Lawsuit Against Ophthalmologist and His Medical Practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Southern Colorado Man Indicted on Federal Hate Crime and Explosives Charges for Plotting to Blow Up Synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Frank Michael Lucas, 33, of Sylva, N.C. to 160 months in prison on drug trafficking charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Lucas to serve five years under court supervision and to pay a $10,000 fine.
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 a $2 million airport infrastructure grant to Battle Mountain Airport in the state of Nevada. 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 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 $4.75 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Montana. 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: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the National Security Division, and Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips for the FBI Denver Division announced today that Richard Holzer, age 27, of Pueblo, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver for attempting to blow up a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
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 $13.8 million in airport infrastructure grants to three airports in the state of Washington. 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: ATLANTA - Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: CASE NAME: United States v. Javaid Perwaiz, Criminal Case No. 2:19-mj-594.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An Arizona man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking in heroin and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China.
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: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr today launched a national strategy to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative places MMIP coordinators in 11 U.S. Attorney’s offices, including in Washington State, who will develop protocols...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A major Houston, Texas-based civil engineering company and its parent company have agreed to enter into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connection with a criminal information charging the company with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. As part of the agreement, Dannenbaum...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
Release: THE WHITE HOUSE — The President’s Commission on White House Fellows announces the appointment of the 2019-2020 class of White House Fellows. The highly regarded White House Fellowship provides professionals from diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in public service for one year by serving in various roles in the Federal Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found James Williams, Jr., 29, guilty of making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Ray Roundtree of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the San Francisco Field Division.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to accelerate innovations in energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies. Plastics are used in thousands of products essential to modern life, but plastic waste is also a growing global challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old Houston resident and member of The Sauce Factory has been sentenced for conspiracy and sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A Houston federal jury deliberated for less than eight hours before convicting Jaimian Sims May 20 after five days of trial.
