News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Jan. 18, 2017, Kai D. Bowers, 22, of Florissant, Missouri, plead guilty in United States District Court, to conspiracy to manufacture and pass counterfeit United States currency. Bowers faces a term...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Varner, 57, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of maintaining a drug involved premises, was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner/operator of a Palmdale tax preparation business has been arrested on federal charges that he prepared and filed fraudulent federal income tax returns on behalf of his clients.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: In support of meeting the nation’s obligations to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced Friday that the BLM has completed its land surveys and legal identification of nearly 60,000 acres that were restored to the Red Lake Band. The lands are scattered across northern Minnesota in five counties.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s (USDA) final rule on organic livestock and poultry production standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, six individuals pleaded guilty to their roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas; United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU -- Sheila Harris, 51, of Honolulu, formerly the owner and operator of Harris Therapy, Inc., a therapeutic services provider with a primary location in Honolulu, entered not guilty pleas today in federal court on a 13-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on January 4, 2017. The indictment...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news from the Department of Homeland Security on the settlement of the decades-old racial bias case brought by agents against the U.S. Secret Service...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing on the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to request that you immediately re-open the Committee’s investigation into the Flint water crisis, which you suddenly and prematurely closed last month without consulting us or other Members of the Committee. We also request that the Committee take a number of concrete...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held the hearing, “Nomination of Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Boston-based global financial services company State Street Corporation has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $32.3 million criminal penalty to resolve the government’s criminal investigation into a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man who was arrested on Jan. 13, 2017 in connection with a Fort Lee, New Jersey, bank robbery will make his initial court appearance tomorrow, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today released the following statement after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was officially found in violation of the Antideficiency Act with regard to multi-year leasing contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez made the following statement upon learning of the death of Lea County Sheriff Steve Ackerman following a vehicle crash on Jan. 17, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the announcement President Obama nominated Jason Kearns to serve on the International Trade Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brookline man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for tipping off two friends in connection with an insider trading scheme that netted more than $1 million in illegal profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A former lab manager from Raleigh County who falsified data was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for violating the Clean Water Act, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. John Brewer, 62, of Beaver, is the second former employee of Appalachian Laboratories to be prosecuted for a violation of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marquese Whitted, age 30, and Derek Mountz, age 32, both of Schuylkill County, were indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for participating in a methamphetamine and heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks Counties in April-October 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for aiming his laser pointer at a Kansas City, Mo, Police Department helicopter.
