News from December 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is demanding to know how and why the United States Postal Service (USPS) sponsors a weekly TV show on CBS. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently spotlighted the series, which airs on Saturday mornings and tells stories based off of mail fraud and scams that USPS inspectors targeted.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter asking their respective Chairmen, Reps. Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte, to issue...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS-Robert David Lund, a 53-year old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Susan P. Watters issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID CHUKWUNEKE ADINDU was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 41 months in prison for participating in a wire fraud conspiracy and identity theft conspiracy. These charges stemmed from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Dejesus, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin and being a felon-in-possession of ammunition, was sentenced to 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAVON MORSE, 22, of Norwich, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Smith, 27, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Stole and Laundered Over $85,000 Using Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the Restoring Internet Freedom order.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 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), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to express his concerns with the EPA's unjustified ground water monitoring rule for in ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy held a Puerto Rico Power Resiliency Workshop on Dec. 13, 2017 to gather experts from the whole community of public and private energy stakeholders to support a long-term plan to enhance the resilience of Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure. The conversation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 28-year-old resident of Pasedena has been ordered to prison for his participation in a cocaine distribution scheme involving multiple seizures of cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Victor Hugo Hernandez pleaded guilty May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant Billed D.C. Medicaid for Supplies That Were Not Provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Cesar Arbelaez Tabares and Juan Carlos Bazantes, who owned and operated IWES Contractors, Inc., a drywall labor supply company in Norcross, Georgia, have been sentenced to each serve eight years in prison and pay a $75,000 fine following their trial and convictions for submitting false certified payroll forms to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in connection with a construction project at the federal facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Anastacia Vann Maclin, age 46, of Merrillville, Indiana was convicted of embezzlement and theft from the Indiana Medicaid program, after a two-day jury trial before District Court Judge Philip P. Simon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Diego Walther Anibal Mejia Paredes, 35, of Guatemala, was sentenced Dec. 10, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington to 180 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Shusta Traverse Gumbs has been convicted of two counts of using a motor vehicle to assault members of the U.S. Marshals Services’ Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERTF) after he attempted to flee arrest in his vehicle, pinning a Deputy U.S. Marshal with his car in the process.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2017) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today recognized three of its talented employees for being honored as FY 2017 Presidential Rank Awards winners. Jere L. Dick of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) received a Distinguished Rank award, and both Cyril G. Gay and Jerry L. Hatfield of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) received a Meritorious Professional award.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the guilty pleas in three cybercrime cases. In the District of Alaska, defendants pleaded guilty to creating and operating two botnets, which targeted “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, and in the District of New Jersey, one of the defendants also pleaded guilty to launching a cyber attack on the Rutgers University computer network.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: An Elko, Nevada, cardiologist was arrested yesterday on 39-charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the ...
