News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - An Italian national was arrested in Marino, Italy on Oct. 2 pursuant to a provisional arrest request from the United States in a case involving two defendants charged here with conspiring to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: The owner of a Tampa, Florida-area medical marketing company was sentenced to 70 months in prison today for his role in a $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and bribes to fraudulent medical clinics in Miami in exchange for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries for expensive genetic tests that were medically unnecessary, and for his role in the illegal structuring of cash withdrawal transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD -A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey on a federal drug conspiracy charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Eastport man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Bangor for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VLADIMIR ZISKIND pled guilty to participating in a scheme to target elderly persons to solicit purchases of stock in a series of valueless companies through a variety of lies and misrepresentations. ZISKIND pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: A man who was convicted in federal court for illegally possessing a gun for the third time was sentenced Oct. 3, 2019, to more than sixteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Abdul Samuels, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to seven years in prison stemming from drug trafficking and gun possession charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Yosemite National Park is proud to announce the 2019 recipients of the park’s Volunteer of the Year awards. These prestigious awards are bestowed annually to outstanding volunteers in nine different categories for exemplary service to Yosemite National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of Parks and Recreation announced a temporary Birdsall Road to Birdsall River Access closure in Auburn State Recreation Area’s China Bar Area. Significant flows from the North Fork of the American River caused Birdsall Road slumping during the storms of January 2017 and led to its closure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of MARCUS ANTHONY MATTOX, 25, for illegally possessing a firearm. The jury found MATTOX guilty following a four-day trial before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
Release: ERIE, Pa. - Residents of the Erie area and northwestern Pennsylvania region will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside Erie International Airport from November 4 to 8, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) International Operations Division Chief Leo Lin returned a 6th century BCE marble statue known as the “Head of a Veiled Woman," during a repatriation ceremony at the Libyan Embassy, Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Rakee Russ, 41, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 12 months and one day of incarceration, three years’ supervised release and $420 restitution by United States District Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his participation in a scheme to sell counterfeit tickets.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.-Two years ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 22-year-old Harrison, Michigan man has been sentenced for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter requesting key documents from Vice President Michael Pence as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to two years in prison and ordered to pay $332,000 in restitution to 35 victims for posing as a lawyer in order to defraud numerous car accident victims who were members of immigrant communities in Northern Virginia and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Federal, state, and local officials announced that 16 people have been charged with drug crimes following a long-term investigation of methamphetamine distribution in the Wausau, Wisconsin area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through...
