News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Fairview, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Following a three-day jury trial, a Miami-Dade resident pled guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm after shooting a man in front of a convenience store in Miami Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Breana VanDyck, 28, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 63 months in prison. Following a jury trial in September, VanDyck was found guilty of mailing child pornography. VanDyck’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that she register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted Steven Mnuchin’s vast private sector experience and called on colleagues to support his nomination to be the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. The Senate is expected to vote to confirm Mr. Mnuchin this evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Adrianna C. Frye-Williamson, 20, of Springfield, Illinois, was charged in a criminal complaint on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, with two counts of Bank Robbery. The alleged violations took place on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 in Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, and Thursday, February 9, 2017 in Glen Carbon, Madison County, Illinois. Today, the Court ordered that Frye-Williamson be detained without bond until a bond hearing on Feb. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A federal inmate who was caught approximately a mile from Raleigh General Hospital was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jody Ladd Dellenback, 30, previously pleaded guilty to escape.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of the END IT Movement’s fifth annual “Shine a Light on Slavery" day, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will convene a hearing on February 15 to examine progress in U.S. global efforts to end modern slavery and human trafficking, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The 30-year-old former law enforcement official taken into federal custody last week has been ordered detained on allegations of production and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Andrew Craig Sustaita, who resided in Spring, was previously a Harris County deputy sheriff, but is no longer employed there.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: This weekend, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) penned an opinion piece for one of his home state papers, The Record, outlining the Trump Administration’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). You can read Pallone’s article below...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining Medicaid personal care services found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could do more to ensure requirements across programs are in harmony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant is One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as a Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: California Mother and Son Convicted for Fraudulent Corporate Income Tax Returns.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Puzder: This letter is in reference to my Jan. 25, 2017 request that you voluntarily provide three years of tax returns as I have requested of all of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and specifically those before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (“HELP").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Today, the Senate will consider the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be the next Secretary of the Treasury Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered a statement on the Senate floor tonight in opposition of Steven T. Mnuchin’s nomination to be the Secretary of the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On February 8, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CARL IMMICH, formerly the property manager of Harriet Tubman Terrace Apartments, a Section 8 Housing Complex in Poughkeepsie, New York, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. United States District Judge Cathy Seibel imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining Medicaid personal care services found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could do more to ensure requirements across programs are in harmony.
