News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Francisco Fernandez, 26, of Earlimart, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States State Office (BLM-ESSO) held a quarterly oil and gas lease sale Sept. 12, 2019, that resulted in competitive bids on 30 of 31 available parcels for 3,031.045 acres located in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Rashid Iman Turner (32, Ft. Myers) to 41 years in federal prison for his involvement in a string of armed robberies of banks and retail stores. Turner was also ordered to pay $103,782.78 in restitution to the victims. A federal jury had found Turner guilty on May 29, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former manager of CBS Employees Federal Credit Union was sentenced today to 169 months in federal prison for a two-decade-long embezzlement that caused the credit union a loss of $40 million - a scheme that ultimately led to the financial cooperative being forced into insolvency.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office released today its Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) to designate three Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in San Miguel and Montezuma counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Tennessee resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years (36 months) of probation, the first nine months on home detention, 250 hours of community service, a $5,000 fine and ordered to pay $120,710 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy and transferring counterfeit currency, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: North Texas Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Deovonie Birch, age 23, of Allentown, was sentenced on Sept. 13, 2019 to serve 31 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: NIAGARA, WI ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Koller Industries ‒ operating as Aurora Castings Services ‒ for continually exposing employees to machine hazards at the facility in Niagara, Wisconsin. The company faces $ 206,291 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in the United States District Court in Raleigh, Judge James C. Dever III sentenced STEPHEN CONDON PETERS, 45, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to serve a total term of 40 years in federal prison on charges of Investment Advisor Fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Brian Jordan, 33, of Trenton, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, in federal court in Worcester for lying to federal firearms dealers and for possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Vincent J. Palermo, 46, of Omaha, Nebraska, entered a plea of guilty before Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp to three counts of willful failure to file income tax returns for the 2012, 2013, and 2014 tax years. Each count calls for a maximum penalty of up to one year in prison, a $100,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $25 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Families from across the Ohio Valley will have the chance to see their favorite emergency response, military and construction vehicles up close this weekend, thanks to the United States Attorney’s Office, Cabela’s, first responders, and other businesses in our community.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Rashid Iman Turner (32, Ft. Myers) to 41 years in federal prison for his involvement in a string of armed robberies of banks and retail stores. Turner was also ordered to pay $103,782.78 in restitution to the victims. A federal jury had found Turner guilty on May 29, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: MCALLEN, TX-The Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division, McAllen Resident Agency Office, wants to warn the public about a recent spike in “virtual kidnapping" extortion calls in the Rio Grande Valley.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 256,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Artavius Horne, a/k/a “Lo", 35, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted at trial of three counts of sex trafficking minors by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Artavius Horne, a/k/a “Lo", 35, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted at trial of three counts of sex trafficking minors by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former operator of the water system in Garden Plain, Kan., pleaded guilty today to falsifying a report on the quality of the city’s drinking water, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
