News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Derek E. Sands, age 37, of Lincoln, Arkansas, was sentenced to serve 9 months in federal prison followed by another 9 months of home detention while under electronic monitoring and a...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement applauding Thusday's announcement of Global Magnitsky sanctions designations against several leading members of the grand corruption network in South Africa led by the notorious Gupta family.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Anthony Hopper Convicted on RICO Indictment Including One Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - The former executive vice president and chief loan officer for the failed Country Bank of Aledo, Ill., Dana Frye, today pleaded guilty to charges of making false statements to the bank. During his appearance before Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow, Frye pleaded guilty to conspiring...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GREGORY BAYARD was sentenced to 24 months in prison in White Plains federal court for embezzling approximately $1.4 million from a decedent's estate for which he served as a court-appointed administrator. BAYARD had pled guilty to one count of wire fraud on Oct. 23, 2018. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Marchello Wilbon, 34, of West Palm Beach, entered a guilty plea yesterday before U.S. District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II to the one-count indictment charging him with mail theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1708. (Case No. 19-80119-CR-Ruiz). The defendant faces up to 5 years in prison, and up to $250,000 in fines on the charge when he is sentenced on Dec. 13, 2019.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly man was sentenced to probation today for sending a series of threatening letters to the CEO of an online dating website; one letter contained a white powder described as Anthrax and another contained a red substance described as blood infected with the AIDS virus.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Gang Members Attacked Victim with Machetes and a Baseball Bat on a Residential Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two Rowan County men were sentenced to prison on October 4, 2019, for unrelated instances of selling narcotics, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
Release: I want to offer the Department’s congratulations to the 2019 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, especially Stanley Whittingham and John Goodenough – who we’ve been privileged to support for much of their distinguished careers. Their work in batteries and energy storage will have a lasting effect on all of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Marshfield, Missouri, woman has been sentenced in federal court for multiple fraud schemes totaling more than $1 million that involved Medicaid payments to her dental clinics, failing to pay over payroll taxes and collecting unemployment benefits she wasn’t entitled to receive.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Antonio Soto-Perez, 26, of Stockton, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Elvia Sanchez, 42, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to traffic in firearms by an unlicensed person, and the illegal transportation of firearms received in a state of residency, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Speedway woman allegedly embezzled over $450,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Written Testimony Submitted for the Record.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Philip Finn, Jr., age 49, of Plains, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on October 9, 2019, before United States District Court Judge James M. Munley, to use of fire to commit stalking.

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the appointment of 23 members to DOT’s Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: EMINENCE, MO - On Saturday, Oct. 19, at 4:30 p.m. Ozark National Scenic Riverways and Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will host an instructional gigging program for children, and traditional storytelling for all ages on the gravel bar at Round Spring. The program is free and all are welcome to attend, but reservations are required for gigging.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A tax preparer has been charged with preparing fraudulent federal income tax returns that resulted in illegally excessive refunds for multiple clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich Returns from Overseas Travel.