News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA -Lauren Jane Hoskins, 26, of Somerville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, 3 years supervised release, and a $100 special assessment by Chief United States District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 for aiding and abetting the possession with intent...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee, and Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Ranking Member on the Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, today issued the following statement regarding reports of an internal DHS cost estimate of $21.6 billion to construct a 2,000 mile wall on the southern border.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Rita Law, 58, of Chicago, Illinois, and Crystal Wireman, 32, of Lake Station, Indiana, were found guilty today following a 3-week jury trial.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has published minor revisions to a directive and standard to address amendments to the Title XVI Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act made by the recently-enacted Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016 (public law...
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement about President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: SAFFORD, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Safford Field Office and Gila District Fire Management Office will conduct a multiple day prescribed burn in the southern Galiuro Mountains. Blacklining operations will take place between Feb. 15 and March 30. Interior burning operations will take place between March 30 and May 30, pending appropriate weather conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kayliegh Marre Hartley, 29, of Elkins, West Virginia, was convicted for her role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on February 8, 2017, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging JEFFREY PEARLMAN, 49, of Edgewood, N.J., with engaging in a kickback scheme that defrauded federal healthcare programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: 1. Introduction. The stock trades Congressman Price made while working on healthcare policy raise serious ethical and legal questions that deserve further inquiry. But none of Congressman Price’s stock trades raise more questions than the hundreds of thousands of shares he bought in the obscure Australian...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of JAIME EDWARD MCCLELLAN, a/k/a “Goldie Armani Callaway," a/k/a, “Jaime Edward McClennan," a/k/a, “Armando Blanco," a/k/a, “Red," 32, to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and related charges. MCCLELLAN pleaded guilty on Oct. 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found a former Shreveport mental health facility administrator guilty Thursday of taking part in a kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Former University Business Professor sentenced to Prison for Hiding over $220 Million in Offshore Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROOSEVELT WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Mumsie," 59, was sentenced to a term of 12 years in prison, and forfeiture of over $100,000 in drug proceeds and property, for his extensive heroin dealing in and around Poughkeepsie...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today offered the following statement before the Senate confirmed Congressman Tom Price to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on February 8, 2017, TREVOR MURPHY, also known as “Snookie," 28, of West Haven, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to federal robbery and firearm charges related to the murder of Joseph Zargo on Dec. 23, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Avon man embezzled over $580,000 from the Hendricks Power Cooperative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has pled guilty to Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (619) 546-8104 or Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 140,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
