News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Thomas M. Jackson, 36, of Pensacola, Florida, has been sentenced to 135 months in prison for using a motor vehicle to assault a police officer with Naval Air Station Pensacola. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that the federal grand jury in Greenville returned a thirty-one count indictment charging physician SANJAY KUMAR, age 50, of New Bern, with Conspiracy to Unlawfully Dispense and Distribute Oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that Victor Castro, 37, of East Chicago, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Philip Simon on Jan. 13, 2017 for distribution of over 500 grams of cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report highlighting how Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would increase the number Americans without health insurance to 32 million and double premiums by 2026...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Santa Barbara Adventure Company has been selected to receive a new 10-year concessions contract to operate guided sea kayak tours, limited convenience item sales, snorkel equipment rentals, and guided snorkel tours at Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration will hold webinars and public workshops between January 18 and February. 8 on upcoming airspace improvements that will occur throughout Southern California.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bill sponsored by U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill that cuts government waste by standardizing information sharing among federal agencies was approved by the Senate today and will soon go to the President for his signature.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Mack McFarland has been selected to serve as the safety and occupational health manager at Grand Teton National Park and a member of the park’s leadership team. McFarland, a 23-year veteran of the National Park Service and Grand Teton National Park, is currently the deputy fire management officer at the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - McKesson Corporation (McKesson), one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III and Special Agent in Charge Adolphus P. Wright, DEA Miami Field Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned an indictment charging James Morales, 35, with escape from the custody of the Attorney General, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the passage of H.R. 72, the GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017, which enhances the Government Accountability Office’s ability to audit federal entitlement spending...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Four residents of Salt Lake City have initial appearances in federal court Wednesday afternoon after a grand jury returned an indictment charging them with violations of federal law in connection with a string of robberies in the Salt Lake Valley during September 2016. A silver handgun was used during each of the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Blaine Francis Houser, 52, of Dover, the former Senior Vice President of ICON Communications of Russellville, pleaded guilty to mail fraud after admitting that he used company funds for personal reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned an indictment charging James Morales, 35, with escape from the custody of the Attorney General, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: A former pharmaceutical salesman pled guilty on Jan. 13, 2017, for his role in a $13 million money laundering conspiracy involving more than 2 million dosage units of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Duane Charles Ackerman was sentenced today to fifteen years in prison for production and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Duped Victims Into Funding Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Fake Invoices from Non-Existent Clients, Including Several Horse-Related Entities.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired the nomination hearing for President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of the Interior (Interior), Congressman Ryan Zinke, R-Mont. Over the course of the hearing, Murkowski highlighted many energy, resource, and lands issues important to Alaska and the nation, stressing the importance of a cooperative approach between Congress and Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Juan Geraldo Arredondo, 37, originally from Parral, Mexico, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III on Jan. 10, 2017, to 120 months in prison for his participation in a prison riot which took place at the Adams County Correctional facility on May 20, 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A 32-year-old Pakistani national who resided in the local area has pleaded guilty to six counts of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Babar Butt resided in multiple locations in Houston and Spring and operated an electronics export business, routinely shipping items to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
