News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The owner of several retail pharmacies, including a pharmacy in Piscataway, New Jersey, was convicted today on charges he conspired to defraud the IRS, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: The employee drowned after water and mud filled a catch basin in which the employee was working. OSHA cited the Pembroke Park, Florida-based engineering company for failing to protect employees working in an excavation; train employees on how to recognize hazards related to catch basins and permit-required...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 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"), Michael Greco, the United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York (“USMS"), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTONIO JOHNSON, also known as “Unk," 42, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and fentanyl in Hartford.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - A four plus month search for “Fugitive of the Week", Charles Wilson Fowle, 40 years-of-age, ended this morning in Manchester, NH. Mr. Fowle had been wanted on outstanding federal supervised release violations stemming from his original conviction and sentence in U.S. District Court for distribution of oxycodone and marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing an additional 396 wind turbines as part of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project located in Carbon County, Wyoming. The EA examines site-specific impacts of the additional turbines on mixed ownership land south of Rawlins, Wyoming and is the second phase of turbine development in the project area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 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"), Michael Greco, the United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York (“USMS"), and...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will plant a new National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse on Saturday, Oct. 26. The 30-foot Colorado blue spruce from Lebanon County, Pa. will be lit for the first time on Dec. 5 during the 97th National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Bilal Mohammad Siddiqui, age 22, of Catonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Oct. 18, 2019 to federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Includes $231,955 to Washington Granger School District 204 and $250,000 to Benton County Sheriff’s Office in the Eastern District of Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Richard Anthony Moffett (31, Jacksonville) to 25 years in federal prison for using force, fraud, and coercion to cause multiple victims to engage in prostitution. The court will make a determination as to the amount of restitution Moffett owes to each of his five victims at a later date. Moffett had pleaded guilty on June 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the Department of Justice announced it has awarded more than $85.3 million to bolster school security-including funding to educate and train students and faculty-and support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Atlanta Woman Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to File False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Hrachya Atoyan pleaded guilty to conspiring with the operator of a Queens-based non-profit organization, Big Apple Music Awards Foundation Inc. (BAMA), to bring Armenian nationals illegally into the United States, and to committing visa fraud. The guilty plea was entered before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: CONCORD- Jean Fouad Yazbek, 63, of Norwood, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 24 months in prison for traveling to New Hampshire with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has awarded more than $85.3 million to bolster school security-including funding to educate and train students and faculty-and support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for health care fraud and for distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California husband and wife charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Martin Fox, the former president of a private tennis academy in Texas, will plead guilty 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 | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Derrica Pitts, 25, of Bridgeport, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. In addition to her prison term, Pitts will serve three years of supervised release following her release from prison.
