News from November 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: An Idaho man who agreed to help his brother try to pay off a victim of his brother’s $2.4 million wire fraud and identity theft scheme was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2019, to two months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Carl E. Dubois, Sheriff of Orange County, announced the arrest today of CHASKEL LANDAU...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") announced today the filing of a criminal indictment against MAYUR RELE for committing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FABIOLA BASTIAN MOJICA, 39, a citizen of Mexico recently residing in Stamford, was sentenced today U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series that began this week aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Sanford man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to transferring obscene material to a minor, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: A man who unlawfully possessed a firearm after being convicted of a felony was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2019, to four years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Brian Ray Dunlap (67, St. Augustine) to 14 years and 7 months in federal prison for attempting to entice two young children to engage in sexual activity. Dunlap was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Honduran man wanted for homicide in his home country was removed (deported) Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Inmate Brian J. Wilson pleaded guilty to using a contraband cell phone to post photographs and videos onto Facebook from his cell in the U.S. Penitentiary-Atlanta (“USP Atlanta").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former technician at a Chicago pharmacy has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing thousands of pills of hydrocodone and selling them for a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for the September 2019 robbery of a branch of the TD Bank in Chelsea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OSVALDO SAEZ, 32, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Inmate Brian J. Wilson pleaded guilty to using a contraband cell phone to post photographs and videos onto Facebook from his cell in the U.S. Penitentiary-Atlanta (“USP Atlanta").

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Two Former Tennessee Correctional Officers Charged with Civil Rights, Conspiracy, and Obstruction Offenses Following Assault of Inmate.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is teaming up with election officials and their private sector partners to develop and pilot an open source post-election auditing tool ahead of the 2020 elections. The tool is being created by VotingWorks, a non-partisan, non-profit...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of VICTOR PHILLIPS, STEPHEN ODIBOH, and ANTHONY COLLIER for money...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of VICTOR PHILLIPS, STEPHEN ODIBOH, and ANTHONY COLLIER for money...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Project Guardian already at work in the Southern District of Indiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is rolling back key portions of the Risk Management Plan updates, also known as the Chemical Disaster Rule...