News from September 2019
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), voted “no" on advancing Eugene Scalia’s nomination for Secretary of Labor to a full vote by the Senate. Senator Murray was joined in opposition by every one of her fellow Democrats.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was charged today with online enticement to produce, as well as receipt of, images of child sexual abuse, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brandon, South Dakota, woman convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The 52nd defendant charged in the college admissions case, Xiaoning Sui, was charged in a superseding indictment today with international money laundering and conspiring to commit fraud and federal programs bribery in connection with a scheme to facilitate her son’s admission to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a purported soccer recruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Fifteen federal defendants are in custody after federal and state authorities made numerous arrests as part of an ongoing investigation. Operation Quack Attack has resulted in the identification of multiple drug traffickers and the seizure of large quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in the Chicot County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Gari Terrell Miller, age 39, of Clinton, Maryland, to 9 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, and to possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: HELENA - Attorney General Tim Fox and U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced their offices, together with the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will co-sponsor a second missing persons training for the public and law enforcement. The event will take place at the First Interstate Bank Operations Center in Billings on October 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for firearm and witness tampering crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced a federal indictment charging ROBIN LEE LUSSIER, 30, WILLARD DUANE REED III, 24, and JOSHUA ADAMS HANKS, 24, with distribution of methamphetamine and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in aid of racketeering activity.[1] LUSSIER and REED made...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Newport News man late yesterday on charges of Hobbs Act robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brandon, South Dakota, woman convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for firearm and witness tampering crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - The Justice Department announced today the second coordinated law enforcement action of the Appalachian Region Prescription Opioid (ARPO) strike force, including four cases in the Southern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California businessman became the second parent to be sentenced to prison today in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Stanislaus Venego III, 34, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced yesterday morning (Sept. 19, 2019) in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 137 months of imprisonment for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Venego will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General of National Security John C. Demers and United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald for the District of Minnesota today announced the sentencing of Negar Ghodskani, 40, to 27 months in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to illegally export controlled technology from...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID BOURNE, 37, of Hartland, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to an explosives offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Joseph Williams, 30, of Watertown, New York, pled guilty today to distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, James N. Hendricks, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, woman was indicted today on charges including drug distribution that resulted in a death, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
