News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Carlton M. Butler, age 36, of Montezuma, Georgia was sentenced to serve 30 years (360 months) in federal prison for distribution of crack cocaine and using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to his drug trafficking crime. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia on March 31, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE), Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) issued the following statements in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Office to work with Indiana University McKinney School of Law and PACE to bring job opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park invites the public to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Earth Day during National Park Week fee-free days on Saturday, April 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of an 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.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: FERNDALE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering firewood cutting permits at the Lost Coast Headlands area, six miles west of Ferndale.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service will be hosting two Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA) information sessions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyannis woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin on behalf of Denzel Chisholm and the “Nauti-Block" gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former federal prison guard was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for taking bribes to smuggle tobacco to inmates, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Furie Operating Alaska LLC (“Furie"), a company whose focus is exploration and production of natural gas and oil in Cook Inlet, has agreed to pay $10 million to satisfy a civil penalty originally assessed against it by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 47-year-old San Antonio businessman Elpidio Gongora (aka “Pete Gongora") was sentenced to four years in federal prison for a scheme to defraud personal injury clients; evading payment of more than $1.6 million in taxes; and, attempting to hide assets valued at $429,000 from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tremayne Beard, 34, of Fresno, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Highlights Importance of Public-Private Partnerships to Combat Cyber Threats to Energy Infrastructure
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kayla Paul Lindsey, 48, of Rankin County, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to make false statements to defraud the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in Federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced OBINNA IZUCHI ONWUZURIKE, 27, of Charlotte, North Carolina to 65 months of imprisonment and $154,928 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Ronald McCullough, 45, of Atlanta, GA to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. He also was ordered to make payment of $1,726,400 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jamal Ulysses Green, age 24, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty today to a commercial robbery and to using, brandishing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce today advanced the Improving Support for Missing and Exploited Children Act (H.R. 1808). Introduced by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill updates the Missing Children’s Assistance Act to help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) strengthen its recovery and prevention efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A Marianna, Arkansas man was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison today on drug trafficking charges, announced Matthew Barden, DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - During a meeting this afternoon with Ted Osius, the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) discussed the need for serious human rights reforms in Vietnam. The communist country continues to restrict human rights, in particular political...
