News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Iranian National Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Illegally Export Products From the U.S. To Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John Alexander Driscoll, age 60, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on Dec. 13, 2016, before Chief United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Jury deliberated under five hours before finding David Givhan guilty of all charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) today sent a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the head of the Trump transition team, seeking answers after the transition team sought to identify Department of Energy (DOE) employees and contractors who worked on or participated in international climate talks.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report today showing the significant improvements in women’s access to healthcare as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This progress is under threat as President-elect Donald J. Trump and Congressional Republicans remain determined to repeal the ACA and all its protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Morrisdale, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to six months in prison, followed by six months’ home detention with electronic monitoring, and three years’ supervised release, on his conviction of conversion of government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Yesterday, a federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment against JOHN ARNOLD SHELLEY, 66, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in connection with the failure of the Bank of Union, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. The counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Plea Calls for Prison Sentence of 10 to 12 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of theft of mail matter by a postal employee, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), sent a letter to the CEO of Prudential Financial requesting a briefing and documents about press reports indicating that Wells Fargo bankers signed up customers for insurance without their knowledge or consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL -U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Vickie Lorenzo Bryant (39, Plant City) to four years in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 23, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON —The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the eighth cybersecurity technology transitioning to commercialization as a part of its Cyber Security Division’s (CSD) Transition to Practice (TTP) program.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Yesterday, the Administration released the 2016 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement. This plan details the Federal Government’s overall vision for intellectual property enforcement for the next three years, and provides agencies with specific ways to achieve that vision.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today resolving claims that 1st Class Staffing LLC, a staffing company based in Orem, Utah, discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge a proposal by corporate affiliates Amadeus Group LLC (Amadeus) and Mystic Logistics LLC (Mystic) for Amadeus to offer a pricing aggregation service to subscribers that are involved in the commercial mailing business. The department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: A Chicago man pleaded guilty today to conspiring with his cousin and his cousin’s girlfriend to kill a U.S. citizen at an Indonesian resort in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the appointment of Randy Hanzlick, M.D. to the National Commission on Forensic Science (NCFS.) Dr. Hanzlick also accepted the invitation to serve as the NCFS Medicolegal Death Investigation subcommittee co-chair alongside NCFS Commissioner John Fudenberg.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: ConAgra Grocery Products LLC, a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods Inc., today pleaded guilty to a criminal misdemeanor charge alleging the shipment of contaminated peanut butter linked to a 2006 through 2007 nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis, or salmonella poisoning, the Department of Justice announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Three U.S. citizens were sentenced to prison today for their roles in sweepstakes fraud schemes to defraud hundreds of U.S. residents, many of them elderly, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The former Minister of Mines and Geology of the Republic of Guinea was arrested and charged today with laundering proceeds from bribes that he allegedly received from two Chinese companies that are part of a Chinese conglomerate in exchange for official actions he took to secure valuable mining rights for the conglomerate.
