News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America will be hosting Ann Weisgarber. Ann is the author of several published novels. Her Debut novel, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, takes place in 1917, and details the experiences of an African American homesteading family in the South Dakota Badlands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gregory A. Jackson, age 54, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, to 121 months’ imprisonment to be followed by five years on supervised release, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man employed as a regional manager for a contractor involved with construction projects at Picatinny Arsenal (PICA) and at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst (Ft. Dix) was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that caused losses of $1.4 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 45 criminal aliens or immigration violators throughout South Texas during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Crete Core Ingredients L.L.C. on Sept. 26, 2019, to pay a fine in the amount of $100,000 following the company’s misdemeanor conviction for violating the federal Clean Water Act. Crete Core Ingredients., a Crete, Nebraska-based company, specializes in processing animal materials and byproducts for the pet food industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Alexander Arceo, age 32, of South El Monte, California, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on June 17, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced KENNETH WADE REINHOLD, 33, of Holly Ridge, North Carolina to 360 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - United States Attorney Robert Duncan will have press availability in Lexington on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at 3 p.m., along with Robert Brown, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI to discuss a sentencing.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to the presidents of Duke University, Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College and Villanova University seeking information on the current culture of academic freedom on their campuses. Grassley also expressed his concerns in an op-ed published today by the Wall Street Journal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Valentino Shine, Sr., 51, of Buffalo, NY, of five counts of sex trafficking, and one count each of sex trafficking conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, using and maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, and a $20,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The 22nd and final defendant related to a Las Vegas-to-Columbus oxycodone distribution ring pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant has prior convictions for rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, and a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Vermont man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Pharmaceutical Company Targeting Elderly Victims Admits to Paying Kickbacks, Resolves Related False Claims Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that a second Hoover Criminal Gang member has been indicted for the 2015 murder of Portland resident Kyle Polk.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gregory A. Jackson, age 54, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, to 121 months’ imprisonment to be followed by five years on supervised release, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Artur Pupko, 28, of Boise, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to trafficking in counterfeit goods, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today. Sentencing for Pupko has been set for Dec. 17, 2019 before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Alan Himelright, of Inwood, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California man became the third parent to be sentenced to prison today in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Brady Raymond Frick, Jr., 39, and Timothy Ray Canon, Jr., 27, both of Charlotte, were sentenced to prison today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. for executing a bank fraud scheme involving stolen mail, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...
