News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man pleaded guilty to selling drugs that resulted in a fatal overdose of a man inside a hotel in downtown Cleveland last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Angel Gonzalez-Reyes, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced KAYODE FADAMORO, formerly of Raleigh, NC, to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $35,466.93 in restitution to the defrauded credit issuers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Jordan, Minnesota, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet and Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Oct. 2, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 56-year-old McAllen man has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Bouchard: . As you are aware, in April 2018, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions against Oleg Deripaska and a host of other senior Russian government officials, oligarchs, and companies they own or control for their role in supporting the Russian government’s malign activities around the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Terry Lajeunesse, age 48, of Pottersville, New York, was arrested yesterday and charged by criminal complaint with possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester in connection with a 2017 fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A jury has returned a guilty verdict against a 57-year-old Nigerian man for committing passport fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for one hour before convicting Ademola Okulaja, Kingwood, following a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Today, a federal jury in South Florida convicted Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, California, of cybserstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families of victims of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, announced U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 56-year-old McAllen man has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: In recognition of October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) is highlighting some of its cybersecurity initiatives, including its collegiate cyber defense competition, CyberForce, whose fifth installation will be held next month at National Laboratories across the Nation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rule to streamline the royalty rate reduction process will remove unnecessary and overly burdensome requirements providing much needed regulatory relief and efficiencies for non-energy solid leasable minerals, such as soda ash, potash, phosphate...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested today on charges related to his alleged disclosure of classified national defense information (NDI) to two journalists in 2018 and 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Masqueraded as California video game developer to access cloud computing services.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $251 million (PDF, 159 KB) to upgrade rural electric systems in 13 states. The funding includes $38.2 million to finance smart grid technologies that improve system operations and monitor grid security.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with a 2017 fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service has completed its September 2019 population census of the wild horses in Assateague Island National Seashore. There are 76 horses in the Maryland herd, including 22 stallions and 54 mares. One death was documented and there were no births.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 31-year-old Texarkana, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
