News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced three defendants for conspiring to commit wire fraud in a mortgage fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
Release: NEW YORK - The one-year countdown for needing a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license has begun.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 16, to consider Pallone’s legislation to respond to the national youth tobacco epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIANO IRIZARRY, 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of distributing a controlled substance while on pretrial release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Angelo Perrucci, Jr., of Bangor, PA was arrested and charged by Indictment with wire fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) arrested 28 individuals Thursday for drug trafficking and illegal...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Long-time Commissioner and wife allegedly set up phony company to divert more than $400,000 in tax dollars that should have gone for drainage maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced Lonell Johnson, 27, Grand Marsh, Wisc., was sentenced Sept. 26 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 44 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Jackson pleaded guilty to this charge July 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Augustine Amon Reyes, 33, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 15 years in prison for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 49-year-old resident of Katy has been indicted for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of more than $600,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEWIS CORWISE, 29, formerly of Norwich and New York City, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm in relation to his drug trafficking activity.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., woman was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison Monday for her role in crashing a car into a Cabela’s store to steal guns, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton woman was charged on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in federal court in Boston in connection with an ongoing investigation into a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced details of the Health Subcommittee field hearing this Thursday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 am CT at Kennedy-King College in Chicago, Illinois on the public health threat of gun violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Marcus File, 36, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for his role in a bank theft. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced File to four months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, File will serve a three-year term of supervised release. His sentence will run consecutive to state sentences for delivery and possession of controlled substances.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK-A Norwalk, Connecticut, man was arrested Monday following an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, with assistance from HSI Boston-New Haven, Connecticut office. James T. Booth, 74, was indicted in the Southern District of New York, charged with securities fraud, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) working together with local law enforcement arrested two individuals yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging them with committing and attempting 21 early-morning burglaries of collectible coin and precious metal stores, along with a federal firearms licensee in Southern California and Nevada in 10 weeks, netting more than $292,000 in stolen coins and merchandise.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
Release: TRENTON - New Jersey residents who want to board a domestic flight will soon need a star on their driver’s license, indicating that it is a REAL ID credential or they will need another form of approved identification to board their flight or enter a secure federal facility. New Jersey’s REAL ID driver’s licenses and identification cards have a small star in the upper right corner to indicate that it meets federal regulations that establish minimum security standards.
