News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Mexican national, stopped en route from Arizona to Ohio, has been convicted at trial of possessing at least five kilograms of cocaine with the intent to distribute.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), questioned R.D. James, nominee to be assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, during a nomination hearing of the committee. Barrasso questioned James on several water issues facing the state of Wyoming, including ice jam flooding in Worland, WY, and the Waters of the United States rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 453, the “Relief from New Source Performance Standards Act of 2017;" H.R. 350, the “Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act of 2017;" H.R. 1119, the...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to reports that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will only attend tomorrow’s Environment Subcommittee hearing for one hour and will then take a three hour break before returning later that afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Liang Chen, Donald Olgado, Wei-Yung Hsu, and Robert Ewald were charged for their respective roles in an alleged scheme to steal trade secrets from a Bay Area semiconductor chip equipment manufacturer, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The charges were issued in an indictment handed down on Nov. 30, 2017, by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Four Houston area men have been sentenced for their involvement in a string of robberies of La Michoacana establishments that occurred during the Christmas 2015 season, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Billie Hawkins, and Laroderick Martin, both 21, Jirron Curtis, 22, and Marcus Malbro, 19, pleaded guilty at varying times between November 2016 and May 2017 to aiding and abetting two robberies and one count of either discharging or brandishing a firearm.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Glen Allen dentist pleaded guilty today to a four-year healthcare fraud scheme in which she fraudulently obtained more than $783,000 from Medicaid and four dental insurers.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a public meeting for the proposed expansion and modernization of the U.S. Gypsum Company gypsum mine in Imperial County. The meeting will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017 at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 350 Smoketree Dr., El Centro.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Highest Ranking Officer to Plead Guilty; Officer Robbed Victims and Filed False Affidavits.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to reports that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will only attend tomorrow’s Environment Subcommittee hearing for one hour and will then take a three hour break before returning later that afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Caused Press Releases to be Issued Containing False Information to Induce Investments.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 453, the “Relief from New Source Performance Standards Act of 2017;" H.R. 350, the “Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act of 2017;" H.R. 1119, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: An eight-count indictment was filed charging a Rocky River business executive with collecting nearly $860,000 from his employees but not paying the money to the IRS, as well as embezzling more than $130,000 from an employee retirement plan, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk woman was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for her role in a fraud scheme that prepared hundreds of false tax returns that resulted in a loss of approximately $1.6 million to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Begay, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Hogback, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 108 months in prison for his conviction on an assault charge. Begay will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Gustavo Romero, age 21, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Dax Roberson, Special Agent in Charge, Southwest Region of the United States Department of Agriculture-Office of Inspector General, Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations...
