News from February 2017
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, KAN. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the field hearing at Kansas State University entitled: Hearing from the Heartland: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill from Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Two Lubbock residents who pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy charges were sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam L. Braverman (619) 546-6717.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Justin Brown, 25, of Newport News, was sentenced yesterday to 288 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to engage in racketeering as a member of the Black P-Stones gang. The Black P-Stones were involved in the distribution of narcotics, the robbery of multiple individuals and the death of at least three individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Hannibal, MO - Police and federal agents made a series of early-morning raids and arrests in the St. Louis and Hannibal areas Wednesday that targeted a narcotics trafficking distribution conspiracy in the Hannibal, Missouri, area.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, Kan.,- Continuing his commitment to put the concerns of farmers and ranchers first, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today held the first hearing on the 2018 Farm Bill in Manhattan, Kan., at Kansas State University. The hearing is titled, “Hearing from the Heartland: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill from Kansas."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -RODNEY ALAN HAGER, 38, of Norman, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve 48 months in federal prison for embezzlement over $7 million from his employer, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier this week, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, on the international anti-doping system.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Under Obamacare, there’s a new class of uninsured, and it begins with those choosing to pay the individual mandate penalty instead of buying government-ordered health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Larry Lee Emerson, Jr., 36, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer. Emerson will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier this week, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, on the international anti-doping system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - George Muzio, Jr., age 35, of Cohoes, New York, was indicted yesterday for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Madison, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Stacy L. Lenorud, 37, Mauston, Wis., was sentenced today in United States District Court in Madison to two-years’ probation. Lenorud, formally an employee at the Federal Correctional Institution-Oxford...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Derek Fields, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Wayne LeMar Palmer, age 60, of West Jordan, indicted in August 2015 in connection with an alleged investment fraud scheme that raised more than $140 million from more than 600 investors, pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas City, Kansas return preparer was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison today, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas Beall for the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that David Eisenhart, 44, of Barre, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to one year and one day of imprisonment based upon his guilty plea to a charge that he defrauded a Vermont credit union. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeffrey L. Sells, Jr., 26, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 41 months incarceration for unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Luther Gene Ray, aka “Pumpkin," was sentenced in federal court today to 40 years in prison for sex trafficking a 16-year-old minor female by force in 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) requesting documents and a briefing on management of informant programs and undercover operations.
