News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Conviction Resulted From Operation "Home Of The Brave".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Unit to be staffed with experts in cyber-enabled crimes and national security cases.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will hold combined Pinedale Anticline Project Area wildlife, air, water and operator planning meetings on Thursday, Feb. 16, at the BLM Pinedale Field Office, 1625 W. Pine St., Pinedale, WY, from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. There will be a one hour lunch break.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Chicago, IL - The National Park Service has released the draft Pullman Factory Site Conceptual Design Environmental Assessment and is seeking public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Three people were sentenced to prison for their roles in a 2015 bank robbery, kidnapping and hostage situation, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Conviction Resulted From Operation "Home Of The Brave".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a bill introduced by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings that will strengthen protections for federal employees.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) today announced that the Subcommittees will hold a two-part joint hearing series on Social Security’s representative payee program, which helps certain...
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today joined fellow lawmakers for the Democratic Forum titled “Not Who We Are: An Examination of Trump’s Un-American Muslim and Refugee Ban." A transcript of his remarks and question-and-answer session with former Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steve Coleman, 56, of Thoreau, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RYAN CLAVERIE, age 37, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: More than 100 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Judiciary Committee Member Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), wrote to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County man who was previously sentenced in 2007 in connection with a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services and in 2015 for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release admitted today to traveling in order to launder money in connection with a similar scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Smith, III, 49, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for a decade-long scheme to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 970 of over $1 million. Smith was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to the union in the amount of $1,072,669.10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2100.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BILAL AHMED, a/k/a “Bill," age 41, formerly of Covington, was charged today in a three count Indictment charging him with two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 46-year-old professional photographer Christopher Alexander Reilly, doing business as Chris Reilly Photography, is charged with one count of receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio yesterday afternoon, 35-year-old Juan Ramon Gutierrez of Uvalde, TX, was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Man Residing in Costa Rica Pleads Guilty for Role in Two Separate Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Schemes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2016.
