News from April 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today introduced the Fair Chance Act, which would prohibit federal employers and contractors from asking a job applicant about his or her criminal history until the final stages of the interview process. The bipartisan bill is being introduced in the House of Representatives today by Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Darrell Issa (R-CA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHANNON CHRISTOPHER CEASAR, M.D., age 44, a physician and former co-owner and operator of Gulf South Physician’s Group in Metairie, pled guilty today to Counts 1, 2 and 3 of a Superseding Bill of Information.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the impact of spectrum on economic growth and how the federal government can help meet America’s ever-growing spectrum needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: On March 31st, 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Saint Louis as part of a national listening tour of law enforcement concerns and issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees handed down prison terms ranging from 188 months to 24 months to 14 methamphetamine traffickers, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who falsely told the FBI that he did not get any money from anyone related to the West Virginia Prep Academy and who separately distributed heroin was sentenced yesterday to a year and a half in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Daniel Andrew Hicks, 43, previously pleaded guilty to making a materially false statement to an FBI agent and, in a separate prosecution, pleaded guilty to distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on H.R. 1731 (Rep. Hal Rogers, R-KY), the “Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More Act of 2017" or “RECLAIM Act.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jessica Hofer, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Hofer’s co-defendant, Cody Castillo, 31, previously was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment on Jan. 20, 2017, based on his guilty plea to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - David Q. Givhan, aka “Premier," 35, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 235 months in prison by United States District Court Judge David J. Hale, after being convicted by jury of one count of sex trafficking and three counts of interstate transportation for prostitution announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the impact of spectrum on economic growth and how the federal government can help meet America’s ever-growing spectrum needs.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after a number of state Attorneys General informed the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals they will continue to defend the Clean Power Plan in court after the Trump Administration asked for a pause in court deliberations to rewrite or abandon the plan.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting to consider S. 826 , the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act. The bipartisan WILD Act passed the committee by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Johnny Jones, age 39, of Benton Harbor, Michigan was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, after a three-day jury trial before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio. Mr. Jones was acquitted of a firearms count from the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD - A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Two Toledo-area men were sentenced to prison for stealing more than $1.1 million from hundreds of people through a fraudulent loan-modification scheme, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today questioned Dr. Scott Gottlieb, nominee for Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about his commitment to “ensure independent, science-based decision-making at the FDA" at a hearing to consider his nomination.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today joined a bipartisan group of 39 Senators led by Senator Steve Daines, R-Mont., in sending a letter urging President Trump to raise the critical issue of U.S. beef access to Chinese markets when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senators led by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), in introducing the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TAKIEM EWING, a/k/a “Mulla," pled guilty to firearms offenses in connection with the fatal carjackings of two livery cab drivers: Maodo Kane, who was killed in the Bronx on August 5, 2014, and Aboubacar...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of a DEA investigation stemming from a multi-kilogram narcotics seizure at Los Angeles International Airport last month, two men have been named in a federal criminal complaint that alleges they were key operatives in a drug trafficking organization that shipped cocaine and heroin from Los Angeles to Detroit.
