News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDGAR VALDEZ-VILLAREAL, a/k/a “La Barbie," a United States Citizen who rose to be a high-level leader of Mexico’s Beltran-Leyva Cartel, has pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine in the Eastern District of Louisiana...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Upland man who pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud and tax charges for submitting fraudulent loan applications in a scheme that caused nearly $6 million in losses has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Thursday, May 19, 2016, at 10 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining H.R. 3299, Strengthening Public Health Response Act."
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor during debate on the House Amendment to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ARTHUR RESPERT, age 25, of Kenner, was charged today in a three-count Indictment for theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA agents and detectives with the Scottsdale Police (PD) Drug Enforcement (DEU) simultaneously executed seven search warrants across Phoenix today, as part of a long-term joint investigation into a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization responsible for the monthly distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Michael Mancil Brown was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury sitting in Nashville, for engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Anthony Williams, Sr., 47, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, made his initial appearance May 12, 2016, before U.S. Magistrate Judge RuthMiller after being charged in a one-count indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Williams was released on a $25,000 unsecured bond, electronic monitoring and a curfew.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two Chicago residents were arrested and charged on May 11, 2016, in connection with defrauding banks out of $1.5 million in an airplane and car loan scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO - ) - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York State; Joseph D'Amico Superintendent, New York State Police; and Daniel Derenda, Police Commissioner Buffalo Police Department announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Solicited Payment from Marijuana “Dispensary" after Favorable Audit.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Celebrate 100 Years of the National Park Service at the CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN THE REDWOODS. Redwood National and State Parks.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a full committee markup on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider two bipartisan energy bills to protect jobs, the economy, and public health. Members will convene for opening statements only on Tuesday and reconvene Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 10 a.m.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing to review the U.S. livestock and poultry sectors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two Chicago residents were arrested and charged on May 11, 2016, in connection with defrauding banks out of $1.5 million in an airplane and car loan scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: On May 12, 2016, Robin Thompson, a twenty-five year old Park Hills, Missouri, woman pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of Minor and by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ruben Cotto, Jr., 28, of Allentown, PA, was charged yesterday by Indictment with the production and attempted production of child pornography as well as the distribution and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Thursday, May 19, 2016, at 10 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining H.R. 3299, Strengthening Public Health Response Act."
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: A business owner pled guilty for his participation in an employment tax scheme with the intent of impeding the functions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
