News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to eight years in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possessing a firearm with the heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 18, 2017, Marvin Benally, 47, of Leupp, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 264 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release and sex offender conditions. Benally had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact of a child.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Beginning Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, the National Park Service will increase the entrance fee to the Point Park area of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park from $5.00 to $7.00 per person to fund ongoing maintenance and improvement projects within the park. However, the...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Calloway County Middle School Science Bowl team coach Scott Pile and visual arts teacher Heather Duffy pose with Jayne Bishop, winner of the 2018 West Kentucky Science Bowl T-Shirt Design Contest. An eighth-grade student, Bishop received the $500 prize for her school for her design of the 2018 official...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: On Monday, December 18th, the House majority introduced a third disaster supplemental following hurricanes and wildfires of summer and fall 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Top Executives Distributed Oncology Drugs Contaminated With Mold.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States has filed a civil lawsuit accusing a north suburban diagnostics company of defrauding Medicare out of millions of dollars through kickbacks and unnecessary home sleep testing.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - A former reality TV show personality and real estate investor was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in federal prison for orchestrating multiple fraud schemes resulting in more than $33 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Wenatchee, Washington man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to threatening to damage computers at a Chapel Hill business, announced Sandra J. Hairston, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including Acadia National Park, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to failing to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Republican tax bill conference report...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that two Shawano men were recently sentenced to prison sentences after convictions for firearms offenses in Northeastern Wisconsin. On Dec. 12, 2017, Gary W. Hancock (age: 24) was sentenced to 15 months in...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) appointed Chairman Brady and other Republican members of the House to serve on the conference committee to finalize the details of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Citation Oil & Gas Corp. and its affiliates, Citation 2002 Investment Limited Partnership and Citation 2004 Investment Limited Partnership (collectively, “Citation"), have agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they underpaid royalties owed on natural...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and the Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor are using new technology to spur cleanup of the site’s legacy coal ash.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Steven Michael Smith, 35, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for inducing a minor to produce sexually explicit images of themselves and transmit those images to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for conspiring to transport methamphetamine and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s November 2017 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Owner of North Carolina Waste Disposal Company Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Tax Return.
