News from November 2016
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), today issued the following statement after the House sent the Senate its bipartisan proposal to the House-Senate energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Daniel Wise, age 55, formerly of Tafton, Pennsylvania, currently residing in New York, NY, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, to 2 years’ probation and 100 hours’ community service, for making false declarations in bankruptcy proceedings. Judge Munley also ordered Wise to pay a $30,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Doraisy Martinez, 39, of West Palm Beach, pled guilty to one count of attempted removal of property to prevent seizure.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Today, the Energy Department (DOE) announced approximately $30 million in available funding, subject to appropriations, for research and development of low-cost hydrogen production, onboard hydrogen storage, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells to advance the widespread commercialization of fuel cell...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin authorized a criminal complaint against 34 year-old William Javier Vega-Valentín, and 26 year-old Carlos Manuel Borrero-Vélez, both residents of Aristides Chavier public housing project, charging them with child pornography and child...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Otis R. Elion, 48, of Marion was indicted on November 8, 2016, in a three-count indictment charging distribution of methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Robert Eric Fockler, age 58, of Fort Mill, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for wire fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Curry sentenced Fockler to imprisonment for 37 months, 3 years supervised release, and ordered restitution of $263,457 be paid.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the FDA’s decision not to finalize guidance on laboratory developed tests (LDTs). LDTs have been an important area of concern for the committee. The committee has held multiple hearings on LDTs (September 2014, November 2015 ), and has done extensive work to find a bipartisan path forward.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge today sentenced former Madison County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Watson to three years in prison for lying under oath with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr. announced today that a Tulsa, Oklahoma, physician, Dr. Anoop Sangha, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $50,000 to resolve civil allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970, which regulates the manufacture and distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank Lavway, 66, of Chapman, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to 2½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was also fined $7,500. Lavway pleaded guilty on Aug. 18, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) is seeking public comment on an application to convey federally owned phosphate mineral interests under lands in Lee County, Florida. Today, the BLM published a notice of realty action in the Federal Register which opens a 45-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Deborah Yosick, 60, currently of Davenport, Florida, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to embezzling more than $1 million. She pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and income tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: (NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores De Freitas were found guilty today of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Together with others, Campo Flores and Flores...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David Capp announced today the return of two public corruption indictments; one naming Lake County Sheriff John Buncich and the other naming Portage Mayor James Snyder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Leon S. Johnson, 40, of Herrin, was indicted on November 8, 2016, in a one-count indictment charging possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Zargham Bukhari, 22, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of children, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson yesterday sentenced Calvin Kim, 55, and Chun Cha Kim, 64, husband and wife to 36 and 12 months in prison, respectively, for violations of federal tax laws. Calvin Kim pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by dishonest and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of several Chinese restaurants in the Chicago area was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison for withholding taxes by underreporting receipts paid in cash.
