News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A disbarred Somerset attorney was convicted today by a federal jury in connection with his scheme to defraud an acquaintance of $60,000 and of witness tampering based on his efforts to influence the victim’s testimony at trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - James Seltzer, a former attorney and resident of Marin County, was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment for securities fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. The sentence, issued today by U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh, follows a guilty plea entered Sept. 14, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications from sorghum associations and farm organizations interested in nominating sorghum producers to the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board. Applications are due by March 17, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., today issued statements following the release of a proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule related to the individual and small group health insurance markets...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The “Authorization and Oversight Plan" before us this morning is not binding on the Committee. It is, instead, an informal outline of our oversight priorities for the Congress to come.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jeffrey Lamarche, 39, of Ossipee, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahead of the END IT Movement’s fifth annual “Shine a Light on Slavery" day next week, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, convened a hearing on Wednesday to assess progress by the U.S. to end modern slavery and human trafficking internationally, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALDRIC BORDEAUX, 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Defendant to Pay $147,557.69 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) today released the following joint statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule affecting the Health Insurance Marketplace...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a four-day trial, a jury found Mihran Melkonyan, 36, of Sacramento, guilty on Tuesday of 24 counts of wire fraud and two counts of mail fraud related to a scheme to commit credit card fraud by operating phony online businesses, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: A Washington man was charged with transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An investigation into the trafficking of heroin in Rhode Island has resulted in the seizure of nearly six (6) kilograms of heroin, allegedly brought to Rhode Island from New York, and the arrest of two individuals, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA; Central Falls Police Chief Colonel James J. Mendonca; and Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEONARD SIKORSKI, 61, of New Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for possessing a shotgun with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Steven Matthew Chambers, 33, of Eugene, to 132 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Following his prison sentence, Chambers will be on supervised release for 5 years.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: The sky is the limit at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). Explore the Milky Way, Mars, and Venus with park rangers and astronomers in the Dune Climb parking lot on Saturday, February 25 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Experience the winter night sky in near total darkness. Visitors are asked to park in the row farthest from the dunes, away from the telescopes, with headlights facing M-109.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Two Managers of a Brooklyn Medical Clinic Indicted for Roles in $2.1 Million Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy announced his retirement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Bertin Barcenas-Jaimes, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Jan. 12, 2017, Barcenas-Jaimes, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Sept. 28, 2007 and July 23, 2013.
