News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company pleaded guilty today in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that netted over $3 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Steve Daines (R-MT), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler regarding implementation of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Texas man who was found guilty of hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system, using the system to send approximately 2 million malicious phishing emails, and fraudulently obtaining hundreds of credit card numbers was sentenced this afternoon to 145 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Seattle Public Schools awarded nearly $500,000 to stop school violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, CT - DEA New England Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham, announced that Antonio Johnson, also known as “Unk," 42, of Hartford, was sentenced 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: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Oct. 21, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the recovery of 3 abducted children from Saline County in Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to paying $300,000 to participate in both the college entrance exam cheating scheme and athletic recruitment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Armenian Citizen Pleads Guilty for His Role in For-Profit U.S. Visa Fraud Scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), released a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessing the Department of Defense’s (DOD) implementation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Claude J. Jeffers, Jr., age 38, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Texas man was sentenced to federal prison for possession of credit card counterfeiting devices and altered credit cards, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Defendant Tofyk Ali Oro, 32, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and 3 years supervised release for possession of a device to counterfeit credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nolan Rogers, 32, of Lisbon, CT, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson to possession of fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, and a fine of up to $100,000.
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: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Javier Ivan Torres, age 29, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Christopher Lovelace, a/k/a Fat Chris, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, to six years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. As part of his guilty plea, Lovelace admitted to possessing fentanyl, as well as the gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Texas man who was found guilty of hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system, using the system to send approximately 2 million malicious phishing emails, and fraudulently obtaining hundreds of credit card numbers was sentenced this afternoon to 145 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Chanetel Garnett, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of structuring transactions, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park will reduce the hours and days of operation at the Calumet Visitor Center in October. The facility will be open Friday and Saturday from 11:00am - 4:00pm from October 25 - December 28. Winter hours and days of operation after Jan. 1, 2020 have yet to be determined.
