News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ORMAND BEACH, Florida - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Central Florida Region Office arrested Howard Perch near his residence in Ormond Beach, Florida, on charges of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and providing false info to obtain them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months’ incarceration, followed by four years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal drug trafficking and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Two men who acted as wholesalers for synthetic drugs across the Midwest, including Iowa, were sentenced today to a total of more than 40 years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: The House voted today to block two flawed Obama administration regulations that, if implemented, would expand the federal role in education and diminish the ability for state and local leaders to make decisions affecting their students, teachers, and schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on February 6, 2017, Paul Bradley Meagher, 43, Grand Forks, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 10 years in prison. Judge Erickson also ordered Meagher to serve 10 years’ supervised release, pay a $300 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and pay restitution of $16,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: (MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 14 defendants with participation in narcotics and firearms offenses in the Bronx and Yonkers. The indictment also charges four...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 128,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: A former business manager of the Local 657 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for stealing more than $1.7 million from Local 657.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Corona woman who embezzled more than $500,000 from her employer, an Irvine-based property management company, has been sentenced to serve 27 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Alejandro Balderas-Figueroa, age 36, a former resident of Pelham, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday to time served (six weeks in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Abasi Akeem Smith (30, Orlando) guilty of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. Smith, who was on federal supervised release at the time and whose criminal history includes...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: I am pleased that we are having a two-part hearing series on the Representative Payee program at the Social Security Administration (SSA). Representative payees serve the most vulnerable of SSA’s 66 million beneficiaries - over 4 million minor children, and almost 4 million adults with physical or mental...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the Democratic Caucus approved Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) to join the Ways and Means Committee for the 115th Congress, who fills the vacancy left by former Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Detroit, Michigan man and Los Angeles, California man have been indicted on drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: The Big Oak Flat Road in Yosemite National Park (Highway 120) is currently closed from Crane Flat to Foresta due to a rockfall. On Sunday morning, February 5, 2017, debris and several boulders fell into the road. There is no access to Yosemite Valley via The Big Oak Flat Road. Park road crews have been working to clear the roadway. At this time, there is no estimated time that the road will reopen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Michael Butler, age 37 of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Chief Judge P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Joseph Leroy Miles, Sr., age 63, of Westernport, Maryland, to nine years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing today to examine the opportunities and challenges facing America’s higher education system, as well as discuss possible reforms to improve the Higher Education Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Today, a federal judge sentenced Stephen A. Monaco, a former podiatrist, to 97 months’ imprisonment for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private victim insurance companies, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Defendant Monaco pleaded guilty to health care fraud on Aug. 23, 2016, and surrendered his DEA license.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced their intent to grant the necessary easement to finish building the Dakota Access pipeline. Chairman Rob Bishop released the following statement.
