News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Myron Gerald “Ty" Stevens, 43, formerly of Mobile and Thomasville, Alabama, was sentenced to life in prison for sexual exploitation of children. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge William...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the nominations of Kenneth Marcus to lead the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Johnny Collett to be the Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Scott Mugno to head OSHA at the Department of Labor, and William Beach for Commissioner of Labor Statistics at Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Charon Ray Failed to Report Income from Online Cosmetic Business.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service began work this week to repair and install elevator guide rails and modernize the primary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today said legislation unanimously approved by the committee would support a comprehensive U.S. approach for dealing with the threat from North Korea. The committee sent amended versions of the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017 and the LEED (Leverage to Enhance Effective Diplomacy) Act of 2017 to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard Klaffka, 59, and his wife, Cathleen Klaffka, 62, both of Holland, NY, who were convicted in connection with Richard Klaffka’s receipt of over $1,000,000 in benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months imprisonment, followed by five years supervised release, on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Deandre L. Davis, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public review and comment on a plan to gather wild horses for up to ten years in the Caliente Herd Area Complex, which is located near Caliente, Nevada in southern Lincoln County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mexican citizen was sentenced last week to 33 months in prison for reentering the United States illegally after being previously removed.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: PALMDALE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will be holding a wild horse and burro adoption on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wild Horse Ranch Los Angeles, 38612 130th St. East, Palmdale. Up to 20 animals from public rangelands will be available for $125 each.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Mexico pleaded guilty to reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Mickey Gilley, 35, of West Bath, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 14 years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin and fentanyl. Gilley pleaded guilty on Aug. 1, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) and Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) unveiled the Shash Jáa and Indian Creek National Monuments Act and the Grand Staircase-Escalante Enhancement Act. The bills, co-sponsored by Rep. Mia Love (R-UT)...
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of his bill, the Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act (H.R.2658 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement in front of the House Rules Committee against H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A senior member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for distributing heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Thomas N. Boyce, Jr., age 51, of Dover, Delaware, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews to 36 months incarceration. Boyce previously had pled guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Boyce is scheduled to surrender on Jan. 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: A former Broadview Heights man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Cuyahoga Heights School District out of millions of dollars, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate to Face Federal Firearm Charges in the Northern District of California.
