News from October 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced a bipartisan bill to strengthen local government cybersecurity defenses by...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Odonis Parker, age 29, was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm in a 2-day jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Damon Leichty, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a nomination hearing for the Honorable John Sullivan to be the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vito Gallicchio, 50, a Staten Island resident, was sentenced yesterday to 144 months in prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone. GALLICCHIO was also ordered to forfeit $2,190,840 in drug proceeds...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that a press conference will be held tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, at 11:00 a.m., in the lobby of the Greenville County Courthouse, 305 East North Street, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Hialeah.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The former CEO and chief operations officer (COO) of a Monaco-based intermediary company have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to corruptly facilitate millions of dollars in bribe payments to officials in multiple countries. These included Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya and Syria. The company’s former business development director also pleaded guilty for his role in paying bribes in Libya.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Social Security Administration employee was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for unlawfully accessing the Social Security accounts of individuals and falsifying their records in order to steal funds for his own use, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Charles Denver Phillips a/k/a “Pup," and his wife, Lois Latrilla Phillips, 46, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason for conspiring to distribute and for actually distributing methamphetamine. The couple lived in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aurora, Colorado, man convicted by virtue of guilty pleas to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Brandishing a Firearm During and In Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2019, Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Kevin Allen Lamm, a/k/a Mike Malone, age 35, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of Possessing, Distributing, and Producing Child Pornography as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Sean Dean, age 26, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. Dean admitted that he conspired to traffic four minor girls to engage in commercial sex acts for his financial benefit. Dean entered his guilty plea on Oct. 29, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Department of Justice has reached a settlement in a series of civil forfeiture cases against assets acquired by Low Taek Jho - a financier best known as Jho Low - and his family using funds allegedly misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and laundered through financial institutions in several jurisdictions, including the United States, Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mikael Matthews, 24, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to two years in federal prison for unlawfully possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Matthews pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 12, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Martin Anderson, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Felix Figueroa, 39, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was charged in federal court Tuesday with five armed robberies, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gerardo Ballardo, 27, of Riverbank, California, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: A Georgia Department of Corrections officer was convicted on federal drug charges after a two-day trial in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Washington, PA, was sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, with 90 days of home detention, 100 hours of community service, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $80,000 in restitution on charges of aiding and abetting the unlawful distribution of controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
