News from August 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Ranking Members of the congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma raising concerns over the Trump Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Capt. Denise Davidson of the Cass County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department has received the 2017 Enoch B. Morelock Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced Aryan Brotherhood members Roy Ates, Jr., and Chad Ryan Smith, to 180 months and 160 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a 2016 Burleson County (TX) carjacking that resulted in the serious bodily injury to the owner of the vehicle announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that URMILA SRI THAKUR, also known as Urmila Buddhu-Thakur and Indro Buddhu-Thakur, 72, of Wethersfield, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a money laundering offense stemming from a fraudulent debt elimination scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: 71 of 104 Federal Defendants Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative have Pleaded Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Myrna S. Parcon, a/k/a “Merna Parcon," 62, of Dallas and Ransome N. Etindi, 57, of Waxahachie, Texas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle for their role in a nearly $60 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 17, 2017, Marshall W. Duty, 58, of Dongola, IL, and Kiristien M. Joyner, 28, of Carbondale, IL, were sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine offenses, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Starting next week, park staff will take action to eliminate non-native rainbow trout, brook trout, and lake-dwelling grayling from the upper Gibbon River drainage. After the action is complete, biologists will reintroduce native fish species to the upper Gibbon River drainage.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Dino Ajloni (40, St. Augustine) has pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud in connection with his role in a fraudulent compound pharmacy scheme. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Unprecedented seizure of over 66 pounds of methamphetamine confiscated, along with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, marijuana and 17 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Evans Samuel Santos Diaz, age 26, formerly of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was convicted of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving Jeffrey Guzman and others. The jury returned a verdict...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 17, 2017, John Allen Abbott, 50, of Clinton, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 240 months in prison for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams and more of actual methamphetamine and 500...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Intoxicated Defendant Finally Stopped After Ramming Into Police Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: John Hamilton, the former top elected official of the 18,000 member Operating Engineers Local 324, International Union of Operating Engineers, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit extortion, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Detroit, MI- House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement in response to the news that Steve Bannon will no longer serve as White House Chief Strategist...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Eric J. Hightower, 36, of Alton, IL, pleaded guilty on Aug. 15, 2017 to a two-count indictment charging possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in count one and possession with intent to distribute cocaine in count two.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Aug. 18, 2017, to more than six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned an indictment charging Timmy Lloyd Inga, 55, of Anchorage, with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Inga was previously convicted of a misdemeanor domestic assault charge in 2015 and he is therefore prohibited under federal law from possessing a firearm or ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Anthony G. Brown, sent a letter to Kushner Companies LLC requesting documents...
