News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that the federal grand jury in Greenville returned a 31 count indictment charging physician Sanjay Kumar, 50, of New Bern, with Conspiracy to Unlawfully Dispense and Distribute Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former IRS employee was indicted by a federal grand jury today for filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A Harrisonburg man, who attempted to bring an alien into the United States whom he allegedly knew was prohibited from entering the country, pled guilty and was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Barrio Azteca Gang Lieutenant Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that two Crowley men were each sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for robberies in three parishes.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
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By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statements after the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced the conclusion of the insurance covered agreement negotiations with the European Union (EU)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HAENA PARK pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to commodities fraud. The charge relates to PARK’s scheme to defraud more than 40 individual investors out of more than $23 million. PARK solicited investments...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A previously deported convicted felon and his roommate were sentenced this week following their guilty pleas last year related to the April 2016 burglary of a Federal Firearms Licensee in Arlington, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Madison, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Darnell Isabell, 32, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to eight years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Isabell pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: FBI and San Diego Police Department Seek Assistance to Identify the Bag Trick Bandit.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s move to lift Sudan trade sanctions...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Republican Steering Committee released the Republican members that will serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources for the 115th Congress. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury yesterday voted to convict Tameen “Nitty" Johnson, age 39, of Schenectady, New York, of illegally possessing a loaded handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area is providing training Friday for first responders and law enforcement and military personnel on opioid overdose treatment and reversal options, including use of the drug, naloxone, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Jefferson State Community College Police Chief Mark Bailey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Alan Thomas, 53, of Masontown, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court today to 41 months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Allen Christopher Morton, 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing heroin and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: “I congratulate these outstanding scientists and engineers on their impactful work," President Obama said in a statement when the 102 young federal scientists and researchers were named as winners. “These innovators are working to help keep the United States on the cutting edge, showing that Federal investments in science lead to advancements that expand our knowledge of the world around us and contribute to our economy."
