News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Less than one year after being sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for attempting to extort money from a Dallas-based business (victim Company) and ordered to pay $174,888 in restitution to the numerous victims of his extortive conduct in U.S. v. William Laurence Stanley, 3:14-CR-113-N...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for his role in a California-to-West Virginia methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Marco Antonio Bojorquez-Rojas, 21, a Mexican national residing in California, previously pleaded guilty to interstate travel in furtherance of a drug crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's expected nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and committee member Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) today introduced a bipartisan bill to repeal the newspaper broadcast cross-ownership ban.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: FBI, Albuquerque Police Seek Public's Help to Solve December 2011 Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: GNC Enters Into Agreement with Department of Justice to Improve its Practices and Keep Potentially Illegal Dietary Supplements Out of the Marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who was found in possession of marijuana and a firearm was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement today after the announcement that President-elect Donald Trump has selected General John Kelly, former commander of U.S. Southern Command, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Senior Vice President Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing Conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) called for the elimination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s catfish inspection program today at the Subcommittee on Health hearing titled “Waste and Duplication in the USDA Catfish Inspection Program:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Julio Rocha pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his receipt of bribes in exchange for his awarding contracts for the media and marketing rights to FIFA World Cup qualifier matches. Rocha, the president of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On December 1st, 2016, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a two-count indictment against José Reyes-Alicea and Edgardo Meléndez-Silva, a.k.a. “Wong", for drug trafficking, announced today Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today’s arrests are the result of an investigation led by the FBI, with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: A Tampa resident is indicted for threatening a Sandy Hook parent residing in the Southern District of Florida.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday evening, the House passed S. 3183, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016. The legislation has been spearheaded by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The bipartisan bill would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday evening, the House passed S. 3183, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016. The legislation has been spearheaded by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The bipartisan bill would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that, IKE ALEXANDER, age 34, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 188 months and 5 years supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the waste and duplication in the USDA’s Catfish Inspection Program. The FDA is already responsible for overseeing the safety and inspection of seafood.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that yesterday, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Jason J. Parmeley, 42, formally of O’Fallon, MO, pled guilty to numerous federal crimes arising from his leadership of a large stolen property ring that operated in the Metro East and other locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES BRODERICK III, 58, of New Milford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a federal extortion charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced to 24 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving the trafficking in, use, and possession of unauthorized debit card account numbers.
