News from December 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, members of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) House-Senate Conference Committee signed the conference report for this legislation and Conference Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) filed the conference report in the House. The bill will now move forward to be voted on next week by the entire House of Representatives and Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Yomtov Scott Menaged, 40, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 17 years in prison for orchestrating multiple fraud schemes resulting in more than $30 million in losses. Menaged had previously pleaded guilty to bank fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered Menaged to pay the various victims $33,558,407.76 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former laboratory technician at a medical clinic in Mission and an account representative for a toxicology testing company have entered guilty pleas in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge in Rhode Island today ordered a New Jersey maritime captain to surrender his United States Coast Guard 100-ton Merchant Marine license to the Court, and to refrain from piloting or operating any vessel, as conditions of his release on unsecured bond while awaiting trial on a charge of seaman’s manslaughter in the death of an 81-year-old Connecticut boater in waters off Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: You’ve got a lot to be proud of. I’ve heard about that big visa fraud case you prosecuted several years ago. That was terrific work.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House took historic action to pass the House-Senate conference committee report for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) - approving the final legislative text to overhaul the nation’s tax code for the first time in 31 years. With this bill, the typical family of four earning the median family income of $73,000 will receive a tax cut of $2,059.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Department of the Interior (DOI) released its 2017 Critical Minerals Report. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant and others conspired to behead Americans and kill police.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Internet-Connected Toys.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-A Transportation Security Administration officer detected a loaded semi-automatic handgun in a carry-on bag at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint yesterday, Dec. 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: FBI Atlanta Statement on Fire and Outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brian Tate, age 35, of Gordon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 18, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to 156 months’ imprisonment for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a public report that a decades-old drug-that was provided free of charge as recently as 2016-had suddenly seen its price soar to a cost of more than $15,000 per bottle, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is demanding answers from Strongbridge Biopharma, which acquired the drug and relaunched it earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Timothy Wade Barton, 55, of Sweetwater, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 97 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in July 2017 to a superseding information charging one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
Release: Decatur, Ill. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implemented new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items this week at Decatur Airport (DEC) and Willard Airport (CMI). The new procedures, which were announced earlier this year, and are being implemented across the country, require travelers to place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening in standard lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former owner of a Boston forensic accounting firm was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for understating his income by hundreds of thousands of dollars on his personal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former laboratory technician at a medical clinic in Mission and an account representative for a toxicology testing company have entered guilty pleas in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Christopher Mroz, 26, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 15 years in prison for stalking and two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran national Friday who is wanted in his home country on sexual assault charges.
