News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of a Mexican Mafia-affiliated street gang that operates in Whittier and Santa Fe Springs was sentenced today to 480 months in federal prison for a series of violent crimes that included the 2016 murder of a rival gang member outside a San Gabriel Valley restaurant.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: The Dyea Townsite Road is once again open to vehicle traffic after heavy snowfall had prevented the National Park Service from plowing the road on January 26th. Drivers are advised to use extreme caution; warmer temperatures and freezing rain has caused a layer of ice to form on the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Brandon Mardell Woods, 35, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in two robberies in the Central West End. Woods appeared before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a request for a Special Recreation Permit from Mindfulness Rainforest Adventures to conduct guided hiking tours on BLM-managed lands in Ketchikan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Eight defendants have been sentenced for their roles in an Indian based call center fraud scheme that victimized thousands in the United States resulting in over $3.7 million in losses. The sentences ranged from six months to four years and nine months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Guatemalan national deported from the United States in June 2004, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for reentering the country illegally and for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was convicted on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that on Jan. 24, 2020, Matthew James Boeve, 30, of Holland, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 235 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, and 120 months for aiding and abetting obstruction ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Luis Valencia of San Antonio, and his nephew, 34-year-old Mauricio Valencia of San Antonio, for their scheme to steal oil from oil companies and oilfield service companies operating in the South Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Defendant was previously ordered deported, never left, instead assumed identity of a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: West Virginian Business Owners Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Pay Employment and Individual Income Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Houstonians have admitted to recruiting a teenager on social media and trafficking her for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has determined that Jeff Pfaff was not responsibly connected to Farm Fresh Packers LLC, Pompano Beach, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Florida Criminal Defendant to Serve Additional Prison Time for Lying on Pre-Sentencing Financial Disclosure Form.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations in a statement Monday highlighted the House’s support of a lawsuit to block the Administration’s rule eliminating state flexibility to administer benefits based on their own...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Practice Fusion Inc. (Practice Fusion), a San Francisco-based health information technology developer, will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations relating to its electronic health records (EHR) software, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: As tax filing season opens this week, the IRS Criminal Investigation Dallas Field Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas remind citizens that falsely preparing tax returns and evading taxes are crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Florida Academy has agreed to pay $512,500 to the United States to resolve allegations that it made misrepresentations to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in order to maintain its eligibility to receive VA funding under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Abelino Morales-Padilla, 38, of Manchester, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking on Friday, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and 30 of her Democratic Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Secretary Alex Azar at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting updates...
