News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rodney Williams, age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2019 to 20 years’ imprisonment followed by three years on supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for distributing fentanyl and heroin to another person that resulted in the death of that person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Auburn, New York, business owner pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to filing a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston jury has just returned guilty verdicts against a 44-year-old Houston man on five separate counts of sex trafficking involving adults and minors, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting David Mearis following three days of trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, JOHN L. MURRAY, age 66, was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon for violating federal law by committing a bank robbery at the Hancock Whitney Bank in New Orleans. Additionally, MURRAY was ordered to pay $500 in restitution, serve (3) years of supervised release and pay a 100.00 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded over $273.4 million in grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Seattle - A 27-year-old Kent, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for two counts of making interstate threats. CHASE BLISS COLASURDO made multiple online posts threatening members of President Trump’s family...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) warned the head of the General Services Administration (GSA) that the Committee will...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Joshua Ryan Joles, the CEO of LLC Wholesale Supply, LLC, Mohammad Mehdi Salemi, the CEO of Wholesalers Group, Inc. and Wholesalers Group, LLC, and bank account holders Angel Caminero Alvarez and Leonides Herrera were indicted on charges of money laundering, committing violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and mail fraud, related to their alleged participation in a scheme to sell diverted pharmaceuticals to unwitting pharmacies and consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida resident pled guilty today to illegally selling firearms to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a violent paramilitary group operating in South America.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Bailer, 34, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in the Southern District of Mississippi Awarded $363,000 in Funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power. Part III: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Romanian national, who was arrested with her son at a bank ATM with dozens of re-encoded gift cards that contained stolen credit and debit card information, was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a skimming operation at several local banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Includes $4,361,685 to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Colville Tribe and the Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation in the Eastern District of Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: An Eastlake man was indicted in federal court of child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced the sentencing of a Maryland registered sex-offender charged in Alaska federal court for attempted production of child pornography involving a minor victim in Anchorage.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairwoman Dhillon: I write to request information about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) decision to remove Component 2 from its Employer Information Report (EEO-1) form. Component 2 requires employers to report their employees’ pay and hours worked sorted by race, sex, ethnicity, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 16, United States District Judge Diane J. Humetewa sentenced Tao Li, a 39-year-old Chinese national, to 40 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Li had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to export military- and space-grade technology to the People’s Republic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 47-year-old New Boston, Texas, man has been convicted of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Daquan Jones, 28, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, charged in by Indictment which was unsealed today with conspiracy to pass more than $75,000 in counterfeit $100 bills to numerous retail stores across Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
