News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Sex Workers Recruited from Asian Countries.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Dr. Tom Price as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on Bank Robbery in Sunrise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jermaine Mitchell, a/k/a “Melo," 44, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 260 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly referred to as “crack." He was convicted following a six-day jury trial on June 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Janeski, age 38, of Edison, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Feb. 13, 2017, before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced last week that three prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock pleaded guilty to the assault of an inmate that resulted in injuries requiring hospitalization.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Brady Statement on January Jobs Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with making threats over Facebook to burn a local mosque, unlawfully possessing dozens of firearms, ammunition and child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM Update recently talked with Frank Sheppard, senior vice president and project manager for Parsons, EM’s contractor for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Parsons declared construction of the facility complete in April 2016, eight months ahead...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Marty, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Ways and Means Announces First Markup of 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Yoisler Herrera-Enriquez, age 31, a massage therapist from Wyoming, Michigan, pled guilty in federal court yesterday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a staged automobile accident ring that operated in West Michigan from 2012 to 2015. Herrera-Enriquez faces up to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Four of five defendants involved in a string of violent armed robberies have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The group was responsible for the armed robberies and attempted robbery of Jet Pawn, Cash America Pawn and Mad Dog Smoke Shop in January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed on Feb. 13, 2017, charging Brian LaChance, age 27, of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, with using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Work underway at a Colorado research facility to resolve technical challenges at the Idaho Site ’s Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) is paying substantial dividends, with more to come.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former resident of Old Tappan, New Jersey, today admitted evading personal income taxes on more than $400,000 in income in 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Jeffrey Reed, Resident Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), Larry Jegley, Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Ninth in a series of town hall meetings scheduled for tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A New York man, who was involved in a conspiracy that illegally manufactured and sold pro-hormone/designer steroids, was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon after having previously pled guilty to related federal charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
