News from December 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an El Salvadoran national Thursday who is wanted for aggravated sexual assault of a minor.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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-Texas) 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 DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the announcement by the Department of Education to consider delaying protections for children of color and students with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York (“FBI"), announced that ALI SOOFI, a Canadian-Iranian dual citizen, was sentenced to 32 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: A former employee of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for providing confidential information about health care facilities that received Medicare and Medicaid funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Felix Shepard, Jr. Admits Illegally Distributing Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An accountant/bookkeeper at a Boston-based company was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with stealing approximately $588,000 of her employer’s funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on December 15th, 2017, FERNANDO LAUDE SAYASAYA, was extradited to the United States and will face state child sexual abuse charges that were filed in Cass County District Court in December of 2002. The charges allege the offenses took place between July 1995 and June 1997 for one victim and June 1997 through August 1998 for another victim.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Upper Snake Field Office wants to improve the public’s experience at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes by installing more shelters at Egin Lakes. Public input is needed on this project application to successfully obtain financial assistance from Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) sent a letter to founder and CEO of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, inviting him to testify before the Committee on the Antiquities Act, national monuments and federal land management.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Xavier L. Johnson, 37, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to two years and six months in prison and three years of supervised release for trafficking in goods bearing counterfeit trademarks, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
Release: PITTSBURGH--More than 40 million passengers and crew will be screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers during the winter holiday period, one of the busiest times of the year to fly. TSA is expecting anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 additional travelers at checkpoints nationwide each day.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Parkway Visitor Center will be closed for renovations starting Jan. 1, 2018, and is expected to remain closed until Feb. 12, 2018. The Visitor Center is located at milepost 266 on the Natchez Trace Parkway, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
Release: HARRISBURG, Pa.--More than 40 million passengers and crew will be screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers during the winter holiday period, one of the busiest times of the year to fly. TSA is expecting anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 additional travelers at checkpoints nationwide each day.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that four defendants have pled guilty to participating in two bank burglaries. In April and May 2016, MICHAEL MAZZARA, CHARLES KERRIGAN, and ANTHONY MASCUZZIO, assisted by CHRISTOPHER KERRIGAN, stole more than $5 million in cash, jewelry, collectables, and other valuables from the banks’ vaults and safe deposit boxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Vilasini Ganesh, head of Campbell Medical Group, convicted of 10 health care fraud and false statements relating to health care matters; Gregory Belcher convicted of one count of making false statements relating to health care matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and methadone.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Hyde Park, NY - The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS, the Eleanor Roosevelt NHS, and Vanderbilt Mansion NHS, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: For Sex Trafficking of Children. FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that, Patrick Davis, 30 of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by Chief District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann, for Sex Trafficking of Children. Davis was...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement on the Republican tax legislation’s conference report...
