News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Dan Reed (50, Daytona Beach) guilty of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Due to his prior criminal record, Reed qualifies for enhanced penalties under the Armed Career Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled their “Better Way" messaging platform on tax reform...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that 12 Defendants who were all part of a drug trafficking organization in the Fort Smith area were sentenced to federal prison this week. The Honorable P.K. III presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Thomas Burke, deputy ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing, bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess continues to grow as President Obama this week signed two committee-led bills into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Miguel Verduzco Velazquez, 35, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann for possessing with the intent to distribute 1 kilogram or more of heroin and illegal reentry into the United States after conviction and removal for an aggravated felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Natchez, Miss - Four inmates were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III on Thursday, June 23, 2016 for their participation in a prison riot which took place at the Adams County Correctional facility prison on May 20, 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Evan Ballowe, age 25 of Fayetteville, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release for Online Coercion and Enticement of a Minor with the Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity. The sentencing took place before the Honorable Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident of the Philippines has been charged in connection with a large-scale and sophisticated identity theft scheme targeting high-profile victims, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Kenneth Wayne Fisher, Jr., age 40, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Zachary Smith, 28, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to deal firearms without a license and possession of stolen firearms, was sentenced to 92 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Tanisha Phelps, 20, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to time served, 11 months, including six months in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal jail and five months in federal custody, for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today continued their efforts seeking answers about the FDA’s procedures to product trade secret and confidential information in the food industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Abdul Mannan, 33, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to three years and three months in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert announced. In addition, U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. ordered Mannan to pay $76,193 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew M. Slavitt requesting additional information on Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Donta Betts, age 20, of Baltimore, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for making a destructive device in connection with the April 27, 2015, riots in Baltimore and, in an unrelated case, for discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on July 2, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew M. Slavitt requesting additional information on Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Harminder Phagura, 36, of Yuba City, pleaded guilty today to one count of federal programs bribery in connection with a drug trafficking scheme, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Lyn Purdy, 43, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to four years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine in Rock County. Purdy pleaded guilty to this charge on March 16, 2016.
