News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Today’s forum comes as our Nation stands at a crossroads. For decades, we have granted safe haven to families fleeing persecution and violence. Will we continue down that path of refuge, tolerance, and inclusion pursued across parties and Administrations, or will we veer down the path of intolerance, xenophobia, and paranoia as the current Administration appears to be heading?
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Senior Judge Raymond L. Finch, on Jan. 31, 2017, sentenced Ramon Lacen-Santiago, 41, of Puerto Rico, to 10 months in prison for bulk cash smuggling, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Finch ordered Lacen-Santiago to serve half of his sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Felipe Antonio Reyes Eduardo was sentenced to a term of two years in federal prison based upon his prior guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Fayetteville, North Carolina man was sentenced today in the Middle District of North Carolina to eight months of home confinement for threatening members of the Masjid Al Madina Mosque in Raeford, North Carolina, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins’s (R-KS) announcement that she will retire from Congress at the conclusion of the 115th Congress...
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 20 of their bipartisan colleagues today in a letter to President Trump after reports that Iran conducted a ballistic missile test late last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: (BRONX, N.Y. - - More than 103 pounds of heroin and fentanyl have been recovered and 32 people were indicted for major drug trafficking and other charges resulting from a joint investigation, state and federal law enforcement officials announced today. James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service celebrated its centennial in 2016. Chamizal National Memorial and Western National Parks Association (WNPA) invite you to commemorate that milestone by purchasing a centennial t-shirt, pin, patch, magnet or decal at our Park Store. Beginning Wednesday, February 1st, 2017, all in-store centennial merchandise will be discounted 75 percent while supplies last.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
Release: GREEN, Ohio - Demand for travelers interested in enrolling in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) TSA Pre✓® program has been so strong that a temporary application center will be open at Akron-Canton Regional Airport Monday in addition to several permanent enrollment centers already open in the region.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to H. J. Res 37, a resolution invalidating a rule that requires prospective federal contractors to disclose their history of labor law violations and requires agencies to evaluate those bidders who willfully, repeatedly and pervasively cheat workers out of their pay or endanger their safety at work.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Dr. Albert R. Cowie, 38, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and health care fraud, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Pain management physician Dr. Robert Windsor has agreed to the entry of a $20 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by billing federal health care programs for surgical monitoring services that he did not perform and for medically unnecessary diagnostic tests. Dr. Windsor owned pain management clinics in Georgia and Kentucky that operated under the umbrella of National Pain Care, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Susana Ceballos, 36, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Anthony Maresca (54, Holiday) to 40 years in federal prison for multiple armed bank robberies in the Tampa Bay Area. He pleaded guilty in October 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC MALLORY, age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a two-count Indictment charging him with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROHAN A. JAMES-DENNIE, JR., 22, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Bu Young Kim, age 40, and Chan Hui Cho, age 40, residents of Brooklyn, New York, entered pleas of guilty on January 25 in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii to the charge of conspiring to dispense and administer cosmetic drugs and treatment without being a licensed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Feb. 1, 2017, Kanya Tirado, 38, of St. Thomas, was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of cocaine conspiracy and two counts of possession of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Six members or associates of the Black Gangster Disciples Street Gang have been arrested on federal drug charges in George County, Mississippi and Vancouver, Washington. In the early morning hours of Feb. 2, 2017, FBI agents, task force officers, and sheriff’s deputies arrested the following suspects in George County.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today sent a letter to Betsy DeVos, nominee for Education Secretary, asking whether she supports President Trump’s Executive Order halting immigration and refugee resettlement to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries.
