News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Three men are expected to make their appearances in federal court for aiding and abetting bank robbery and aiding and abetting brandishing a firearm in relation to robbing the Woodforest National Bank, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Velasquez, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute over 40 grams of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Nationwide DD&R contract. A multiple award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, utilizing Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) and/or Cost Reimbursement (CR) task orders, is anticipated. The Draft RFP is being issued as an unrestricted, full and open competitive procurement with a 10-year ordering period, and a maximum value of services of $3.0 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 29-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been indicted for robbing a bank in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Mark Consiglio, 49, of Elsmere, Delaware was sentenced today in federal court in Delaware for his role in detonating a pipe bomb at a home in Elsmere, Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A retired certified public accountant has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for running a $27.5 million Ponzi scheme that for roughly two decades defrauded her friends and her accounting firm’s clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: In Midland yesterday, a federal jury convicted 37-year-old Midland resident Cole S. Crocker of attempted online enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 17 members and associates of the Texas Syndicate in connection with a methamphetamine/heroin trafficking operation in central Texas announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, and Gonzales Police Chief Tim Crow.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner of two defense contracting firms was sentenced to 36 months in prison for providing non-conforming parts for military equipment, illegally sharing sensitive technical information and evading income taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the North Side of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years and ten months (46 months) in prison on conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine as well as maintaining a drug involved premises, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Seven defendants, including five former Verizon store employees, have been indicted for opening Verizon accounts using stolen identity information and then fraudulently charging tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise to those accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged in the United States with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Vorarut Vorasiangsuk (37, Orlando) to 14 years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Vorasiangsuk to forfeit multiple computers and hard drives, which he had used to commit the offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) marked another record-breaking summer travel season, screening more than a quarter of a billion travelers, the busiest in TSA history. With the summer travel season spanning from the Wednesday before Memorial Day until the Tuesday after Labor...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Canaveral National Seashore will reopen the park on Friday, September 6, at 6:00 am. Both districts will be opening with limited access to the beach; some parking areas and roads may be closed completely to access. No backcountry camping reservations or permits will be issued for the islands. No backcountry...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Award-winning art historian, critic, author and podcaster Tyler Green will be speaking about groundbreaking 19th century photographer Carleton Watkins on Saturday, Sept. 14, 7pm at the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center. A signing of Green’s book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Thirteen people were arrested today on two federal grand jury indictments alleging a conspiracy to export hundreds of pounds of narcotics, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, from Mexico through Southern California and into Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NOEL CORTES, 55, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Houston men have been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Coron Demon Johnson, a/k/a Savage, age 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin. Johnson admitted that an individual died as a result of using heroin that he distributed.
