News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nigerian national extradited from Canada will appear in court today for his alleged role in a scheme that defrauded vendors of office products valued at nearly $1 million by “phishing" e-mail login information from government employees, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nigerian national extradited from Canada will appear in court today for his alleged role in a scheme that defrauded vendors of office products valued at nearly $1 million by “phishing" e-mail login information from government employees, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk woman was sentenced yesterday to more than four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to prepare false tax returns for her customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JENNIFER KELLNER, 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing two bank robberies in Bridgeport in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD")...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the designation of Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area (NCA) to honor the NCA’s positive impact on the local community and visitors. The NCA was established to protect its outstanding geologic, scenic, wilderness resources, as well as its diverse recreation opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Former Forsyth County Commissioner Arrested for Filing False Tax Returns and Failing to File a Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Charges Santa Fe Man with Three Bank Robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the report from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailing the regulatory and enforcement efforts to control the diversion of opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing and sharing hundreds of videos and images of child pornography over the internet.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is one of the locations in Tennessee that has colorblind-less viewfinders that help color blind visitors and residents see the vibrant fall foliage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing and sharing hundreds of videos and images of child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Sept. 26, 2019, Joshua J. Klein (age: 38) of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 225 months’ imprisonment for firearm and drug offenses. Klein was also ordered to serve 5 years’ supervised release after his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: POINT ARENA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office and the Point Arena community invites the public to come out and celebrate “Discover the Coast," on Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Point Arena-Stornetta unit of the California Coastal National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Harvey O. Isaac, 30, of Lexington was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the distribution of fentanyl that caused the overdose death of another by US District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the report from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailing the regulatory and enforcement efforts to control the diversion of opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced defendant Samuel Maxwell Styron, 66, a resident of Foley, Alabama, to imprisonment for 18 months for bank fraud. As part of the sentence, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - April and James Thompson have been indicted for defrauding an Atlanta timberland investment company out of more than four million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the signing into law of the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act of 2019 or the “AUTISM Cares Act of 2019 (H.R. 1058) :
