News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Hanshaw, 27, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and Tiara Adams, 31, of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, were convicted for their roles in a heroin distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: United States Files Enforcement Action Against Florida Company and Senior Managers to Stop the Adulteration and Misbranding of Medicated Animal Feeds.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After voicing her opposition to a closed-door briefing by Department of Homeland Security officials on Trump’s recent controversial Executive Orders, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, elaborated on what she learned...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) sent a bicameral letter to White House General Counsel Don McGahn, urging the new administration to protect whistleblowers as a means of encouraging transparency throughout the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Fee Free Days in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: FBI Violent Crimes Against Children/Human Trafficking Task Force Rescues 11 Women During a Two-Day Joint Operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Krishen Sauble Iyer, 36, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder money, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin and U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert jointly announced the plea.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered the following statement at a hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the hearing, Murray and Senate Democrats on the Committee highlighted the devastating...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez, 44, of Austin, Texas, was convicted on 30 January 2017 of conspiracy to commit wire-fraud, credit account fraud, and aggravated identity theft after a four-day jury trial. Perez-Martinez, the last of eight defendants charged in the case and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 31, 2017, Jason Wayne Helton, a.k.a. Crack Baby, 33, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 262 months in federal prison following a conviction for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in east Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Felix Nelson Ayala, of Rockville, Maryland, late yesterday with bribery and making false statements in connection with a scheme to engage in bribery in order to influence a public official in the performance of his official duties in Prince George’s County. Ayala’s initial appearance is scheduled today at 1:45 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement on Finance Committee Republicans’ decision to break longstanding Committee rules and advance the nomination of Congressman Tom Price despite serious, outstanding concerns about the medical stock trades he made while legislating on health care policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Kansas Man Indicted on Child Pornography and Sex Tourism Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN HUMBERTO HERNANDEZ-YONES, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one count Indictment charging him with illegal re-entry of a removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nominations of Steven Mnuchin to serve as U.S. Treasury Secretary and U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to serve as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) under suspension of the Committee rules. Following the vote, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JIMMY W. SEQUICHIE JR, age 25, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A Greene County man, who along with others committed a series of armed and violent robberies across Albemarle and Greene counties, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville to federal firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, Krista Jean Mudrick, 36, a resident of Deschutes County, Oregon and former Deschutes County Sheriff employee, was sentenced to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane for lying to FBI and IRS agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Troy Malecki, 48, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, depicting minors less than 12 years of age, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
