News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Due to a 91-acre wind-driven fire that ignited at Rancho Sierra Vista and the Satwiwa Native American Culture Center in Newbury Park Thursday evening, the National Park Service sites are closed through Saturday, October 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment this week charging Charles Michael Fox, 44, of Tulsa, with attempting to destroy his apartment building by means of fire and explosive materials, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man today admitted possessing heroin that was seized from him at Newark Penn Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Cory Shane Disotell, 48, of Port Barre, Louisiana, appeared before U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays today and pled guilty to transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to an appeals court ruling that Mazars USA LLP, the accounting firm that prepared financial statements for President Trump, must comply with the Oversight Committee’s subpoena for the President’s financial records...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: In honor of Native peoples' contributions to American culture, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will host special events each weekend in November to commemorate National Native American Heritage Month. Native Americans have added to every area of endeavor in American life. They built North America's earliest cities, domesticated its first crops, and developed its earliest great civilizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two members of a drug-trafficking organization have pleaded guilty this week to distributing significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska Joe Kelly announced that U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank, District of Minnesota, sentenced Javonn T. Lewis, 24, this week to 6 years, 10 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in two robberies. Lewis previously pleaded guilty to the robberies; one...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Curlee Smittee, Jr., age 47, of Baltimore, to 46 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and for bank fraud, resulting in losses of more than $373,000. Judge Chasanow also entered an order requiring Smittie to pay restitution of $342,776.89.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Daniel Harris was sentenced by United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt to 10 years’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and 28 grams of cocaine base, as well as possession of multiple firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Harris pleaded guilty to the charges on April 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Victor Manuel DeJesus, 47, of Miami-Dade County, who is a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Miami, has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit bribery, bribery, and other offenses in connection with a scheme to provide contraband items to inmates at the federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Former New York City Police Department Officer and Supervisory Committee Member Also Charged With Embezzlement, Fraud, and Controlled Substance Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Daniel Harris was sentenced by United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt to 10 years’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and 28 grams of cocaine base, as well as possession of multiple firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Harris pleaded guilty to the charges on April 8, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: In honor of Native peoples' contributions to American culture, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will host special events each weekend in November to commemorate National Native American Heritage Month. Native Americans have added to every area of endeavor in American life. They built North America's earliest cities, domesticated its first crops, and developed its earliest great civilizations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) released a joint statement today on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) initial analysis of H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019. The CBO estimates a savings from Title I of the bill to Medicare of $345 billion between 2023-2029...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys man who sold the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 23-year-old man who suffered a fatal overdose has agreed to plead guilty to drug trafficking offense and serve 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Sidney Charles Shannon, age 35, of Bakersfield, California, was sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Ammunition, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Isaac Grossman, 45, of Parkland, Florida, was arrested today on wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering charges, for allegedly directing an elder fraud scheme involving the sale of stock in Dragon-Click Corp, a South Florida-based technology company announced Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Monserrate Morales, age 29, was sentenced yesterday to serve 33 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on one felony count of Wire Fraud and one felony count of Bankruptcy Fraud. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three Detroit, Michigan residents and one West Virginia woman have admitted to their roles in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
