News from December 2017
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee released the following statement upon the approval of H.R. 4508, the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act by the Committee on Education and the Workforce...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Benton man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking out loans totaling $177,000 for three cars that didn’t exist.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement calling for consideration of the tax bill to be delayed until Senator-elect Doug Jones (D-AL) is seated...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Dear Chairman Pai: We write today regarding your draft order-the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (“the Draft Order") -and its potential impacts on students, schools, and institutions of higher education. By overturning the Commission’s current rules that preserve net neutrality and prevent internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced LaJoyce Caldwell Houston (51, Riverview) to two years and nine months in federal prison for receiving stolen tax refunds. The Court also ordered her to pay $61,660.52 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Houston pleaded guilty on Aug. 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: UPDATE - 12/13/17: Today, A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya. He is charged with one count of providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists which carries a possible sentence of up to 15 years in federal prison. He is also charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Pradis Lee Benton, aka Benton, age 42, of El Dorado, was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Anastacia Vann Maclin, age 46, of Merrillville, Indiana was convicted of embezzlement and theft from the Indiana Medicaid program, after a two-day jury trial before District Court Judge Philip P. Simon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tion Makeise Foster, 22, of Point Arena, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER ST. LAWRENCE, the former Ramapo Town Supervisor, was sentenced to 30 months in prison today in connection with his scheme to defraud investors in municipal bonds issued by the Town of Ramapo...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Benton man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking out loans totaling $177,000 for three cars that didn’t exist.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a joint Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Helsinki Commission briefing on pursuing justice for past atrocities in the Western Balkans...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, in light of last night’s election, I do not believe we should be holding today’s meeting. In fact, I believe it is imperative that we respect the will of the people of Alabama and delay any further action on this tax bill until Senator-elect Jones can be seated.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Stephen Christopher Plunkett, 42, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 114 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $10,220 in restitution for committing three bank robberies, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in March 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the December 2017 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANGIE CAMBRE, age 43, of Laplace, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found DON MEEKER, 30, of West Haven, guilty of carjacking. The trial before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant began on December 8 and the jury returned its verdict late yesterday afternoon.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of a partisan Higher Education Act reauthorization bill out of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Mexican human smugglers have been ordered to prison following their convictions for bringing in 17 undocumented aliens, including five unaccompanied minors, into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jesus Enrique Duran-Morales, 34, and Amilcar Rodolfo Molina-Ordinez, 35, both citizens and nationals of Mexico, pleaded guilty Oct. 2, 2017.
