News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant also pleads guilty to threats against former State Representative Pete Gallego and his family.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Linda Ferris, age 55, of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging her with knowingly making a false statement during her bankruptcy case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Linda Ferris, age 55, of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging her with knowingly making a false statement during her bankruptcy case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: A Youngstown man was indicted for selling heroin and illegally having firearms, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
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: FEB 15 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Yesterday a federal grand jury in Providence returned a two-count indictment charging a Providence couple with allegedly trafficking fentanyl laced heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: An inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of imprisonment of 27 months for possessing a homemade knife within that facility, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Christopher Leon Hainta, 45, had previously pled guilty to an indictment charging him with that offense, which occurred on July 22, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today called on Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) to hold an open and transparent process for lawmakers and the American people to fully consider and understand the implications of any Republican health care plans and legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Anthony McCarter, Jr., 25, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Juan Rodriguez, 36, of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Information[1] with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and misuse visas and one count of fraud and misuse of visas, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The information alleges that in or about 2012 to on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Missouri man has been arrested and charged with robbing a bank in Osage City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), held a hearing today to discuss reforming the country’s juvenile justice system to promote safe communities and set at-risk youth on the pathway to success.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: ’s response to the extremely serious allegations against General Flynn, we request that you provide the following information by Feb. 28, 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Carpentersville, Ill., man, Keith JD Offord, 23, has been indicted on fraud charges that allege he used others’ identities to create fraudulent credit accounts that resulted in a loss of more than $500,000 from December 2013 to August 2015. Offord made his initial appearance in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - James VanBlaricum, 77, of Colleyville, Texas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. McGahn: We are writing in response to the shocking reports last night that Department of Justice officials warned you three weeks ago that Lt. General Michael Flynn made false statements about his communications with the Russian Ambassador to Vice President-elect Pence, other White House officials, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) reiterated the need to repeal and replace the burdensome Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and highlighted the importance of repealing the harmful taxes imposed by the health law.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Boston - David Daoud Wright, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 26, of Everett, Mass., was charged today in a five-count second superseding indictment. This indictment added one additional obstruction of justice count in connection with Wright’s deletion of data on his laptop computer on June 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal judge this week sentenced 34-year-old Salvador Sanchez-Reyes, a citizen of Mexico, to three years in federal prison for returning to the United States less than two weeks after deportation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Border Patrol Acting Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak, Del Rio Sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of making real investments in American energy infrastructure for the 21st Century at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Modernizing Energy and Electricity Delivery Systems: Challenges and Opportunities to Promote Infrastructure Improvement and Expansion:"
