News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - The United States Attorney’s Office announces the unsealing of an indictment charging attorney Nelson Israel Alfaro (48, Miami and Colorado) and Gilberto Eduardo De Los Rios (50, Miami) with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruct the administration of justice, make false statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A grand jury in Las Vegas returned a superseding indictment today charging a tax return preparer with preparing and filing false tax returns, aggravated identity theft, and wire fraud announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, United States Attorney Nicholas Trutanich for the District of Nevada, and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan for the IRS-Criminal Investigation.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) announcement that it will stop collecting wage gap data from employers going forward-backtracking on a key step to provide more transparency to workers on pay discrimination.
By State Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks:
By DOL Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently signed an alliance with the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, National Chicken Council and National Turkey Federation, known as the Poultry Industry Alliance participants. The goal of the alliance is to help protect workers’ safety and health by reducing and preventing exposure to peracetic acid (PAA), repetitive injuries and other hazards in the poultry industry.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican of House Natural Resources Committee Rob Bishop (R-Utah),Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) released...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Solano, previously convicted of reckless homicide, caught in possession of seven stolen guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Jason Lee Robinson, 40, of Pikesville, Kentucky, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Federico A. Moreno to 188 months in prison, after previously pleading guilty to committing a string of bank robberies across the country (Case Nos. 19CR20423, 19CR20477, 19CR20478, 19CR20484, 19CR20520, and 19cr20543).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RON CHRISTOPHER SPEAR-ZULETA, also known as “Chris," 46, of Woodbridge; ANINHA SPEAR-ZULETA, 32, of Woodbridge, and MARITZA TORRES, also known as “Lisy," 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to offenses stemming from a drug-related robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Grassley: “I’m trying to tell Senate Republicans that they ought to consider this a moderate position, because it would be easy for the president to join Pelosi.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 11, 2019 -Pasquala Deshun Walls, 30, of Memphis, Tennessee, was charged yesterday with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a joint hearing with the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities on “Securing the Nation’s Internet Architecture."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TORREN BOYD, 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded semiautomatic rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas Tax Return Preparer Indicted for Preparing False Tax Returns, Aggravated Identity Theft and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Michael A. Albert, 51, of Chichester, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to structuring cash deposits from his business, Mike’s Affordable Auto, LLC, for the purpose of evading bank reporting requirements, money laundering, and evading reporting requirements with respect to cash transactions in excess of $10,000, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Memphis and Jackson, TN - Operation “Bluff City Blues," a two-week long joint federal, state and local law enforcement initiative, has resulted in the arrests of 214 individuals in West Tennessee. Those arrested included 79 gang members, 65 individuals for aggravated assault, 34 individuals for homicide and 69 individuals for weapons offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict against a Texas man Tuesday for possessing an AR-15 rifle in his car after having been previously convicted of multiple felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan, Ohio man was sentenced to prison for a federal sex offense, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Donald E. Ward, 59, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for traveling in interstate commerce in order to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Following his release from prison, Ward will serve a term of five years of supervised release after completing his prison sentence and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Orellana had a lengthy criminal history prior to being caught selling meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Offense Represents Defendant’s Fifth Felony Conviction.
