News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a $121,000 settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center (SRMC), a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of HCA Holdings, Inc. located in Fredericksburg, in a case in which the hospital failed to furnish sign language interpreter services to an individual who is deaf during the provision of medical services to her and her mother.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for December 2017.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement on an Associated Press report on the medical impact of alleged attacks against personnel serving at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
Release: Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney travelled to Colombia and Panama Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2017 to highlight the mutual benefits of the United States’ free trade agreements with both countries. McKinney held bilateral discussions with government counterparts in Bogotá and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison for a gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Leon Mitchell, III, 25, previously pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of 12 Corpus Christi men are now in custody following enforcement actions resulting from Operation City Shield, a joint venture to identify violent offenders, stop gun violence and protect the community, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: On December 5, 2017, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy (ASFE) Steven Winberg led the Policy Group meeting at the 7th Ministerial Meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry represented the U.S. as co-chair of the ministerial meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a five-count indictment against Benjamin Melendez-Rivera charging him with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and possession and brandishing of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES C. DUCKETT JR., 45, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a fraud scheme involving...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Young people have been hit particularly hard by eight years with recession followed by a weak recovery and persistent sluggishness and economic stagnation. Unemployment among millennials has been stubbornly high, they are increasingly saddled with student debt and their wages have stagnated. Our current...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Eric Barrientos, 34, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 140 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2017 to one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Comprehensive narcotics investigation leads to seizure of over 300 grams of crystal methamphetamine and other drugs and cash.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin the process of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Honduran man pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy from 2011 to 2014 that transported over a 1,000 kilograms of cocaine on United States registered aircraft on behalf of the “Los Cachiros," a large-scale Honduran based drug trafficking organization (DTO).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Six Texas residents have entered guilty pleas related to a human smuggling operation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Ravon Pitts, age 29, from Milledgeville, Georgia, was sentenced to 120 months in prison on Dec. 1, 2017, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was imposed by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE -United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced DARWIN DIAL, JR., 30, of Maxton, North Carolina to 135 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Roland Skeets, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Smith Lake, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to child abuse charges. Skeets’ plea agreement recommends that he be sentenced to a prison term within the range of 15 to 21 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing Arvest Bank, after which he changed his appearance by getting his hair and beard shaved off at a nearby barber shop.
