News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Lenardra Griffin (30, Grand Island) to three years and four months in federal prison, and Christina Scott (35, Orlando) to two years and six months in federal prison, for access device (credit card) fraud. In addition, the court...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Igor Radinovskiy and Aleksandr Radinovskiy, co-owners of Sabe Ambulette Services Inc., d/b/a Mobility Transportation, located in Brooklyn and North Bellmore, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to offer and pay health care kickbacks and one count of conspiracy to defraud the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Wednesday, Sept. 4, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a German man who recently concluded a 24-month federal prison term for conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and United States sanctions against Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: $1 Million Will Go to Projects that Support Cleanup of Marine Pollution, Preservation of Aquatic Life, and Restoration of Shorelines around Newark Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Matthew Raymond Schroeder of Denver, Colorado, today to one year in prison for possession of heroin. This sentence is to be served consecutive to (after) a Colorado sentence for parole violation. Following the prison term, Schroeder will serve one year on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and Georgetown Heritage invite the community to celebrate the completion of Locks 3 and 4 of Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) on Thursday, Sept. 12 at noon. You’re invited to celebrate this milestone and learn about the multi-year partnership with Georgetown Heritage to restore, revitalize and re-imagine this first mile of the C&O Canal through Georgetown.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Kimberly, Oregon -Join us on September 15th from 2 pm - 4 pm at the Thomas Condon Paleontology and Visitor Center to celebrate the opening of the newest exhibit created by John Day Fossil Beds National Monument’s Artist-in-Residence, Reid Psaltis. During his residency, Psaltis focused on exhibit accessibility by creating a touchable sculpture of Cynarctoides lemur, an extinct, fruit-eating dog.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant owes IRS over $2.4 million in taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Billy Wayne Page, a convicted felon currently on federal supervised release for a previous federal conviction, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 81 months for illegally possessing firearms and violating the terms of his supervised release. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen made the announcement following Page’s sentencing hearing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to launder proceeds of marijuana trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN McFARLANE, also known as “Jabari McBurn" and “Dexter Creque," 41, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to firearm possession and crack cocaine distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man likely faces at least 30 years in prison after he was convicted by a federal jury on firearms and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who pleaded guilty to his involvement in a multimillion dollar international counterfeit credit card fraud and money laundering conspiracy was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rebecca Jelfo, age 47, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud charge in connection with a scheme to defraud two employers of a total of at least $855,000 by submitting fraudulent and inflated invoices.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julie Cota, 52, of California, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: In the wake of multiple mass attacks in communities across the United States, I write with concern that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its federal partners are not doing enough to coordinate and effectively target federal resources to the most effective behavioral...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Committee, released the below joint statement after the Committee deposed Jim Watkins, owner of the social media website 8chan. The deposition was in response to the Committee’s subpoena of Watkins in August.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Putnam County man was indicted in federal court after allegedly filing income tax returns over three years that understated his income by more than $1.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Isiah James Harrington, 19, of Spokane, Washington, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to attempted robbery, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Sentencing for Harrington has been set for Nov. 21, 2019, before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daiquan Hill, 25, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
