News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony McCutcheon, 51, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Wesley Chalk, of Inwood, West Virginia, was indicted by a grand jury sitting in Wheeling today for possession and distribution of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Walter Drakeford (72, Santa Monica, CA) to two years in federal prison for attempting to interfere with the administration of the internal revenue laws. He pleaded guilty on May 17, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered opening remarks at a hearing with stakeholders to discuss the reauthorization of the FDA’s user fee programs, allowing industry to support the FDA’s...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- National Park Service researchers, together with biologists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, recently marked a four-week-old mountain lion in the Santa Monica Mountains. The good news is tempered by suspicion that the young female, now known as P-54, is a product of inbreeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury has convicted Damarcus Donte Ivey, 35, of Charlotte, of Hobbs Act robbery and committing murder while using and possessing a firearm during and in furtherance of the robbery, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the two-week trial, which ended yesterday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Victor Grounds, 36, of Supai, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 37 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Grounds, an enrolled member of the Havasupai Tribe, had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old resident of Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following her conviction of conspiracy to import cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Susana Carolina Enriquez-Mendez pleaded guilty Dec. 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In a case before the court on a Motion for Review of Agency Action filed by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and The Wilderness Society, the plaintiffs challenged the BLM’s decision to issue four oil and gas lease parcels in the November 2011 oil and gas lease sale, and its subsequent decision to approve the Seven-Well Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, Bryan H. daniels, 54, of Belhaven, North Carolina, STEPHEN DANIELS, 63, of Wanchese, North Carolina, and JAMES K. LEWIS, 46, of Gloucester, North Carolina pled guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced multiple measures to further deter and detect H-1B visa fraud and abuse. The H-1B visa program should help U.S. companies recruit highly-skilled foreign nationals ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary John F. Kelly met with Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez and President of the Legislative Assembly Guillermo Gallegos to discuss migration and security issues in El Salvador.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 3, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it is increasing the delivery of safe food handling and preparation information by expanding the hours of its Meat and Poultry Hotline and Ask Karen chat services. As detailed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Sanofi-Pasteur has agreed to pay $19,868,194 to resolve claims that it incorrectly calculated drug prices and thereby overcharged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for drugs under two contracts between 2002 and 2011, the Department of Justice announced today. Sanofi Pasteur, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Swiftwater, Pennyslvania, is the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department cautioned employers petitioning for H-1B visas not to discriminate against U.S. workers. The warning came as the federal government began accepting employers’ H-1B visa petitions for the next fiscal year. The H-1B visa program allows companies in the United States to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations such as science and information technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: A federal court in Texas authorized the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a John Doe Summons on American Express Travel Related Services Company, the Justice Department announced. The IRS John Doe summons seeks information about persons residing in the Netherlands that have American Express debit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Danone S.A. to divest Danone’s Stonyfield Farms business in order for Danone to proceed with its $12.5 billion acquisition of The WhiteWave Foods Company Inc. The department said that, without the divestiture, the proposed acquisition likely ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: A Durham, North Carolina return preparer pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to filing false tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Santos Colon, Jr., 17, of Lindenwold, New Jersey, pleaded guilty as an adult to an information charging him with one count of attempting to provide material support to terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Memorandum from the Attorney General on supporting federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement.
