News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Samuel Pratt, a/k/a “Promise," age 34, of Gastonia, North Carolina, was found guilty on 8 counts related to sex trafficking, child pornography and firearm charges in federal court in Columbia. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Samuel Mebiame, a Gabonese national and the son of a former Prime Minister of Gabon, pleaded guilty earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, to conspiring to make corrupt payments to government officials in Africa, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Mebiame worked as a consultant...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NORMAN D’SOUZA, the former chief financial officer and vice president of finance of a New Jersey-based furniture wholesaler and retailer (“Company-1") and an Indiana-based furniture manufacturer affiliated...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Release Date: 9 December 2016. Contacts: Jody Mays, jody_mays@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 115. NR16-10. Grants for Research on Prisoners of War Offered. 2017 Grants open for application. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site, home of the National Prisoner of War Museum, seeks...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Two New York City men were indicted for having a kilogram of fentanyl, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and DEA Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Plancon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Operation has Charged More than 32 with Various Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Richard Santiago, age 56, who was an inmate at the U.S. Administrative Maximum Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday to the first degree murder and murder by a life prisoner of a fellow ADX inmate before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn. Immediately after the...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to a new report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Russia’s state sponsored doping program...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the release of a Senate companion discussion draft to the Viewer Protection Act.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced that this week’s Republican address will be delivered by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). In the address, Chairman Upton will discuss the 21st Century Cures Act, groundbreaking medical innovation legislation signed by Speaker Ryan earlier this week.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the release of a Senate companion discussion draft to the Viewer Protection Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Jim May (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Matthew S. Norris, age 34, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on December 8, 2016, before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg, to bank fraud and money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Eighteen individuals have been charged in 13 indictments for their role in a large-scale health care fraud and prescription pill distribution scheme, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The separate, but related, indictments, returned Tuesday and unsealed today, charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raymond Carter, 73 of Rancho Cordova, Calif., was sentenced today to 80 months in prison on a charge of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Criminal Complaint Alleges He Returned After Deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: He Made False Statements to Social Security and on Passport Application.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Goldsmith Romero, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laura S. Wertheimer, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: The Son of a Former Prime Minister of Gabon Bribed High-Ranking Government Officials in Multiple African Countries to Obtain Uranium Concessions and Other Mining Rights.
