News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that charges have been filed against two men for attempting to smuggle approximately $287,000 into St. Thomas by boat. Arioc Diaz Melendez and Juan Carlos Diaz Melendez were arrested at 2:00 a.m. Monday morning and made their initial appearances in federal court on Monday afternoon in St. Thomas.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the one-year-anniversary approaches of the historic SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act becoming law to combat the opioid crisis, Energy and Commerce Republicans are launching a new phase into the patient brokering investigation that began last Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky.-The former treasurer of Jackson County, Kentucky, was sentenced today to45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $161,808.23 in restitution for devising a multi-year scheme to defraud the Jackson County Fiscal Court of over $160,000 and for misusing the identity of a Jackson County employee to facilitate her theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Irish National Extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom for Pleading Guilty to Trafficking of Rhinoceros Horns Sentenced to Prison.
