News from August 2017
By Commerce News Now | Aug 17, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 17, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Aug 17, 2017
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 17, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - A sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.-based compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty today in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: There will be a press conference today in White Plains to announce federal criminal charges against 31 members and associates of two rival street gangs in Poughkeepsie. The charges include the murders of Caval Haylett in March 2016 and Daquell LeBlanc in December 2012, as well as racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder, narcotics, and firearms offenses. Relevant charging documents are attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Dennis Earl Byrd, age 35, of Union, South Carolina, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Greenville, sentenced Byrd on Aug. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative; Plea Agreement Recommends Imposition of 15 to 20 Year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Officer Rodiny Calypso Convicted of Filing a False Report.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
Release: CLEVELAND - A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Supervisory Transportation Security Officer (STSO) helped reunite a passenger traveling through Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) with a valuable ring she misplaced at a security checkpoint last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Methamphetamine, was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former city attorney of Manhattan pleaded guilty today to federal child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Devin Arthur Searcy, 23, of Redford Charter Town, Michigan, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Searcy to pay $7,299.33 in restitution. Searcy pleaded guilty on May 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - A sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.-based compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty today in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Emmanuel Lamar Bellamy, age 28, of Loris, was sentenced in Florence to 108 months imprisonment followed by a three-year term of supervised release. On April 18, 2017, Bellamy entered a guilty plea in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana, cocaine, cocaine base and oxycodone. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Aug. 15, 2017, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Theodore Smith (AKA Money), age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 180 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers finished removing combustible material and contaminated loose debris recently from the airlock floor of the 300 Area ’s 324 Building, meeting a key 2017 Richland Operations Office performance goal. The airlock allows access to adjacent rooms called hot cells, where employees remotely handled radioactive substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two men today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of $25 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 17, 2017, Lamont Darnell Fortune, 37, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 272 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in east Tennessee. Fortune was convicted of conspiracy in April 2017, following a two-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Aug. 16, 2017, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced William Ray Wagner, age 34, a resident of Harford County, Maryland, to 10 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for the use of interstate facilities to coerce a minor to engage in sex.
