News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Meacham, 32, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with fraudulently selling counterfeit coins. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Groped Victim After Pushing Her Into Back Seat of Waiting Car.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, 31 years after Congress reached agreement on the largest tax code overhaul in America’s history, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), and Ways and Means Members David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) addressed the American people from President Ronald Reagan’s ranch about the importance of delivering pro-growth tax reform in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Artist-in-Residence Kit Frost will present a one-hour evening program on the History of Art in our National Parks on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. This program will start at 8:30 p.m. MDT at the campground amphitheater. Kit will show examples of artists whose work inspired the formation of our National Parks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Charged with having obtained citizenship by telling a series of lies in naturalization process, Defendant admits that he intentionally failed to disclose murder charges during 1990’s Bosnian Conflict.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Special Agent in Charge for FBI Chicago Announces Retirement.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $282.6 million in airport infrastructure grants to 67 airports in 29 states across the United States as part of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 5:30 PM ET/2:30 PM PT, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will deliver a speech at President Ronald Reagan’s Ranch in Santa Barbara, California about how tax reform will directly improve the lives of all Americans. Chairman Brady will be joined by several Members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced that Sightpath Medical, Inc. (n/k/a Sightpath Medical, LLC) (“Sightpath"), TLC Vision Corporation (n/k/a TLC Vision (USA, LLC)) (“TLC") (collectively the “Sightpath Entities") and their former CEO, JAMES TIFFANY, have agreed to pay more...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Took Money Meant for Legitimate Claimants.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today released the following statements after President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum calling for United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: South Florida residents, including D’Angelo Figueroa, 21, of Port St. Lucie, Victoria Mia DeJesus, 20, of West Palm Beach, Jose Anibal Valentine, 22, of Latana, and Shay Jackson Flores, 26, of Orlando pleaded guilty in federal court for their involvement in a string of burglaries and robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Justin E. Herdman has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Herdman was nominated by President Donald Trump on June 12 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 3. He took the oath of office from U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Gaughan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 29-year-old Denton, Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the president’s Afghanistan announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Mehul Chandubhai Patel, a/k/a "Mike Patel," 31, of Battle Creek, Michigan, was ordered to pay restitution of $150,500 to his former employees. The restitution order is the last stage of Patel’s sentence for lying to Labor...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S., and XCoal all celebrated the first shipment of Pennsylvania thermal coal to Ukraine. The shipment will depart from the Port of Baltimore later this week and arrive in Ukraine in September.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Point Reyes Station, Calif. - Point Reyes National Seashore invites you to join the Thirty-sixth Annual Sand Sculpture Contest. We welcome all ages at this free community event located at Drakes Beach. Create your own sand sculpture or marvel at the works made by participants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man and Huntington woman who participated with others distributing heroin in the Huntington area between 2014 and 2016 were sentenced to federal prison today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Derrick C. Morris, 27, was sentenced to six years in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Sami Osmakac (30, Pinellas Park) for attempted use of weapons of mass destruction and possession of a fully automatic firearm. A federal jury found him guilty in June 2014. In November 2014, U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Osmakac to 40 years’ imprisonment.
