News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Dylan Ray Langley (25, Fort Myers) to two years and six months in federal prison for using of the U.S. Mail to threaten to injure an officer of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Today’s hearing will spotlight the pitfalls Americans face when they try to find quality treatment for a substance use disorder. A person battling this disease is often jostled around from one end of the health care system to the other. The last thing they need when you’re suffering from this disease is another obstacle - rip-off artists, empty promises or outright abuse - when they are just trying to get better.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SALVATORE PERRY, 45, of Shelton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the appointment of Mike Reynolds to be the new NPS regional director of the Department of the Interior Lower Colorado Basin, Upper Colorado Basin, and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf regions. Reynolds currently serves as the superintendent of Yosemite National Park in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DILLON GEORGE TAYLOR, 21, for assaulting three individuals with a firearm. TAYLOR pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2019, before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 21, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr recognized 295 department employees for their distinguished public service today at the 67th Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony. Sixty-two other individuals outside of the department were also honored for their work. This annual ceremony recognizes employees and other individuals who have demonstrated exceptional achievements, leadership, and service to the Department of Justice and the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 15 indictments charging 18 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Timothy Hopmeier, 48, of Des Peres, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in production of child pornography. Hopmeier appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: Earlier this month, President Trump issued a proclamation that would allow the federal government to deny immigration visas to applicants who are unable to afford health care coverage. This new action adopts the worst of the Trump Administration’s health care and immigration policies, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Six men have been arrested on federal charges alleging they committed a spree of armed robberies this year at Southern California cellphone stores, holding store employees at gunpoint, sometimes zip-tying them, then stealing a total of nearly $200,000 worth of electronic devices and cellular telephones.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr recognized 295 department employees, including three from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Pennsylvania, for their distinguished public service today at the 67thAnnual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony. Sixty-two other individuals outside...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jondell Middlebrooks, age 39, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison based on his guilty plea to the distribution, and possession with intent to distribute, heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ray Donovan...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Recordkeeping Violations Complicate Diversion Prevention. ALBANY, NEW YORK - St. Mary’s Healthcare in Amsterdam, New York, agreed to pay a $15,000 penalty as a result of its Narcotic Treatment Program’s (NTP) failure to create and maintain records required by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 47-year-old man who allegedly rammed the Naval Air Station (NAS) has been formally charged with destruction of government property and possession of a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: The United States today filed a civil complaint against the state of California, several of its officers, the California Air Resources Board, and the Western Climate Initiative Inc., for unlawfully entering a cap and trade agreement with the Canadian Province of Quebec.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen today announced the appointment of antitrust litigator Ryan A. Shores as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Senior Advisor for Technology Industries. Shores will serve in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, which oversees all of the Department’s civil ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee and former attorney was sentenced yesterday to 32 months in prison in Las Vegas, Nevada, for tax evasion and obstructing the IRS, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: A citizen of Nigeria residing in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison yesterday for his role in an international cyber fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant of the Western ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: The former owner of a Kansas City, Missouri, business was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for obstructing the government’s effort to collect more than $378,000 in taxes owed, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: A Grand Prairie, Texas, resident was found guilty yesterday of conspiring to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to file false tax returns using stolen identities, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice ...
