News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Announces Forfeiture of North Korean Cargo Vessel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Hip hop producer Jamal Rashid, commonly known as “Mally Mall," pleaded guilty today in federal court to unlawfully owning and operating a prostitution business guised as escort businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
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: 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: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that last Thursday in federal court, CHARLES GILBERT MURPHY, 63, of Apex, NC, was charged in a 26-count federal indictment alleging various acts of Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, Making False Statements on a Loan, Making False Statements to the FBI, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Subscribing to False Tax Returns. He was arrested by the FBI today in Raleigh.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. -On Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold a hearing on “Metro: Report Card for America’s Subway."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant paid $525,000 to facilitate daughter’s college admission as a purported soccer recruit and son’s admission as a purported football recruit.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: JILA physicists and collaborators have demonstrated the first next-generation “time scale" - a system that incorporates data from multiple atomic clocks to produce a single highly accurate timekeeping signal for distribution. The JILA time scale outperforms the best existing hubs for disseminating official time worldwide and offers the possibility of providing more accurate time to millions of customers such as financial markets and computer and phone networks.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: 2:00 p.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. Mr. Dustin Madison, Farmer, Louisa, Virginia. Dr. Heather Karsten, Associate Professor of Crop Production and Ecology, Department of Plant Science, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Mr. Don Cameron, Vice-President...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - Weather conditions permitting, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District in late October and early November will conduct prescribed burns in the Mt. Grafton Wilderness and on Mt. Washington, about 40 miles south-southeast of Ely, Nev. No closures are planned.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The following Lake Mead National Recreation Area events are happening Oct. 26 - Nov. 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: ROME, GA. - Voltaire Peter Pierre, a former corrections officer at Hays State Prison, has pleaded guilty to smuggling methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and marijuana past prison security and into the hands of inmates in exchange for payments. Because Pierre stored the drugs at his family home before smuggling them into the prison, he also pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine on premises where a minor resides.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Meyersdale, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Wright, 56, of New York, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $57,300 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A California resident living in Sahuarita was sentenced last Monday to 120 months imprisonment by District Judge James A. Soto, after being convicted by a federal jury on felony charges of distribution and possession of child pornography following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Aliso Viejo man was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for deliberating driving his Mercedes-Benz sedan into and severely injuring a U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee at the federal building in Laguna Niguel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former research technician and scientist for a worldwide consumer products company that researched, developed, designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold oral care consumer products today admitted stealing toothpaste formulas from the company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: In Pecos today, a federal judge sentenced Reeves County Teachers Credit Union (RCTCU) Chief Executive Officer and former state of Texas employee James T. “Jimmy" Dutchover to eight (8) months in federal prison for defrauding the credit union and willfully failing to file a federal income tax return...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Lower Brule, South Dakota, men convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding were sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bismarck, North Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
