News from April 2017
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: With the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent release of $485 million in grants to battle the opioid epidemic, several committee members greeted the news determined to stem the tide of overdoses and deaths in their districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Perry County couple were indicted on April 19, 2017, by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on production of child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman involved with others in distributing heroin in 2016 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Tonya Lynn Thompson, 44, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael Ron David Kadar, 18, who holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship and who was recently arrested in Israel, was charged today with making threatening calls to Jewish Community Centers in Florida, conveying false information to police dispatch regarding harm to private residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Fe Springs man who posed as an attorney as part of an elaborate immigration fraud scheme in which at least 87 foreign nationals - mostly Chinese citizens - paid tens of thousands of dollars to be “married" to United States citizens was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Haitian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Launder Money Derived from Drug Trafficking.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, released a report by the Senate Agriculture Committee minority staff detailing the detrimental impact the Trump administration’s budget proposal would have on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TRACI LORRE OWENS, 48, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was sentenced on Friday to ten months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for embezzling from a Canadian County charity for abused and neglected children, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce that former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue was approved by the U.S. Senate on an 87-11 vote to be the next Agriculture Secretary.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Everything’s more fun with family! In celebration of Mother’s Day we invite mothers and daughters to enjoy a hands-on course about traditional chair caning techniques on Saturday, May 6. The class will be held at the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Visitor Center in Van Buren, MO. Class size is limited and reservations are required.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Josiah Leach, 18, of South Burlington, Vermont, appeared today before the Honorable Christina Reiss charged with one count of knowingly transmitting in interstate commerce threats to injure others. Chief Judge Reiss advised Leach of the charge against him and appointed the Office of the Federal Public Defender to represent him. He is deemed innocent until proven guilty of the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: APR 24 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Bobby Gutierrez, also known as “B.O," 37, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 160 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 21, 2017, a federal jury convicted Benjamin Bland, age 41, of Richmond, Virginia, of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and social security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: APR 24 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Todd Shorey, 52, of Newport, Maine, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Following a two-day trial in U.S. District Court, on April 20, 2017, Lamont Darnell Fortune, 36, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with the intent to distribute, 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Ewart Henry, 71, of Jamaica, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a criminal complaint with illegal reentry, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. Henry was detained pending further proceedings. Preliminary and detention hearings are set for April 25, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in response to the preliminary results of the Commerce Department investigation, launched in 2016, of Canadian dumping and subsidization of softwood lumber.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A drug dealer who used his drug supply to coerce women into prostitution was sentenced today to 18 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Texas man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in an elaborate, multi-million-dollar fraud scheme in which conspirators impersonated North Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation in business and legal activities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: SHILOH, Tennessee - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 421,863 visitors to Shiloh National Military Park in 2016 spent $24,665,800 in communities near the park. That spending supported 394 jobs in the local areas and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $28,763,600.
