News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A professional day-trader admitted today to repeatedly trading on inside information related to confidentially marketed stock offerings, personally netting hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit profits, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today the conviction of a private investigator who fraudulently used President Donald J. Trump’s personal identifying information, including his social security number, in an attempt to illegally obtain his federal tax information from the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER BRYAN COLEMAN, 28, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for escaping from federal custody. Judge Bolden also ordered COLEMAN to serve the first 90 days of supervised release in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth R. Moellering, who is handling the case, stated that the defendants were part of a multi-state prostitution business that sent female victims to cities and states across the Eastern United States to engage in commercial sex acts. As part of that business, Li and others...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: BOISE - David Lon Rose, 43, of Boise, was sentenced last week in federal court to two years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Rose pleaded guilty to that charge on Sept. 18, 2017. He was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced joint consumer protection efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Roman Burghardt, 33, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to illegal firearm possession, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley of the District of New Hampshire announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: On Tuesday, December 12 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will mark up the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act (H.R. 4508 ). Introduced by Chairwoman Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Brett Guthrie ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
Release: MILWAUKEE and MADISON, Wis. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced new carry-on baggage security procedures at General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) and Dane County Regional Airport (MSN). The new procedures are currently being rolled out at MKE, and will be fully implemented after the first of the year there. At MSN, the new rules will go into effect after the first of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Intercept Corporation, d/b/a “InterceptEFT" (“Intercept"), a privately held corporation headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota, has pleaded guilty to an Information charging the company with operating an illegal money transmittal business, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Forced Immigrants to Work without Proper Pay at the Thatched Cottage.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - Napa County and Reclamation will hold the next meeting of the Lake Berryessa Community Forum at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the Lake Berryessa Senior Center, 4380 Spanish Flat Loop Road.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park Natural Resources Program Manager Mark Biel has earned the 2017 National Park Service Intermountain Region Director’s Award for Professional Excellence in Natural Resource Stewardship.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: Visitors of all ages are invited to celebrate Christmas at Fort Hancock on December 16 and 17. On Saturday, Dec. 16, members of the Army Ground Forces will bring Christmas of 1943 back to life, starting at 12 noon.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today announced the Committee voted to favorably report nominee Stephen Alexander Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Vaden may now be considered by the full U.S. Senate for confirmation.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced joint consumer protection efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wellsburg, West Virginia registered nurse has admitted to distributing drugs illegally, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), is demanding answers today to a key question of the Uranium One investigation - whether the Obama administration intentionally misled Congress on uranium exports.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) release of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining the agencies’ roles in relation to broadband providers...
