News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in partnership with the U. S. Army, will unveil Arizona’s newest wildland firefighting facility at Fort Huachuca City, Ariz., April 28. A ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tour will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: This week, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will mark up H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017. The committee will also hold a hearing to examine ways to strengthen accountability in higher education by improving the accreditation system. Both the markup and hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: 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 today 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: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Christopher Manfuso has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to immediately pay a $50,000.00 fine, for his role in the operation of the massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: A Sioux City man was sentenced on Monday, April 24, 2017, to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 27, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. EDT in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Thomas “Justin" Palmer has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in the operation of the massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Conspirators Impersonated Cerner Corporation. 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Christopher Manfuso has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to immediately pay a $50,000.00 fine, for his role in the operation of the massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch.
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: WASHINGTON - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are holding another Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29, from 10 am to 2 pm local time, at over 5,000 sites around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL GAMERO, 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for heroin distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: A former high-ranking Haitian National Police officer pleaded guilty today in the United States to a money laundering charge in connection with an international narcotics scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: FBI Investigating Whitney Bank Robbery Located at 430 Charter Street.
By Homeland 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 Monday to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Energy & Process Corporation (“E&P"), of Tucker, Georgia, has agreed to pay the United States $4.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly failing to perform mandatory quality assurance procedures and, as a result, supplying the Government with defective...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo sentenced Davon Lymon, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., for his conviction on federal heroin trafficking and firearms charges. Lymon was sentenced to 216 months (18 years) of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A federal inmate at United States Penitentiary at Lee County faces additional federal prison time after pleading guilty this morning to resisting and assaulting a corrections officer, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Houston residents were found guilty Monday after a five-day jury trial for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, aiding/abetting marriage fraud, marriage fraud, theft of government funds and false statements.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced he will reconvene the markup of the nomination of Robert Lighthizer to serve as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in an executive session on Tuesday, April 25, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 10:00 a.m. A separate vote on consideration of a waiver for Lighthizer has been added to the agenda.
