News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Kentavia Jones Admits to Participating in Violent Crime Spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Clement Ashford Reeves, Jr. (74, Yulee) to five years in federal prison for receiving videos over the Internet depicting children being sexually abused. He was also ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release upon his release, to forfeit his computer media, and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Medstar Ambulance, Inc., four of its subsidiaries, and its two owners, Nicholas and Gregory Melehov, have agreed to pay $12.7 million to resolve allegations concerning inflated Medicare claims for ambulance transports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC ORTIZ, also known as “Nice," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Master’s Degree Student Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Entice a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LA. - A Louisiana man pled has pled guilty to a federal charge following his arrest for calling a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and threatening to shoot people there, announced Channing D. Phillips, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Stephanie A. Finley, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A previously convicted felon, who ran from Charlottesville police while illegally possessing a firearm, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville on a federal gun charge, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: In commemoration of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day federal holiday, the public is invited to tour the Melrose mansion free of charge on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Melrose is one of the historic sites of Natchez National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today announced the committee’s leadership team for the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender was sentenced on January 5, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Shane Douglas Sichting, Jr., age 48, originally from Montana, and recently serving a 10-year sentence at Federal Correctional Institute, Edgefield, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court by United States District...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Dear Chairman Brady, Chairman Walden, and Chairwoman Foxx...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Alton Davis, age 47, of Greenville, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Greenville, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Charleston accepted the plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Today, Reps. John Conyers, Jr. and Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after the U.S. Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced they will conduct an immediate investigation into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) actions before the 2016 election...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Charges Arise from Seizure of 13 Pounds of Cocaine at U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint near Alamogordo.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 The United States is revoking the so-called “wet-foot/dry-foot” policy for Cuban migrants that has been in place since the mid-1990s. Effective immediately, Cuban nationals who attempt to illegally enter the United States will be subject to removal, consistent with our enforcement priorities. The United States is also ending the special Cuban Medical Professional Parole program.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Analysis finds that U.S. corn-based ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent compared to gasoline, with additional benefits projected through 2022 WASHINGTON, Jan 12, 2017—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of a report studying the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Applications requested for innovative partner-driven projects WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today invited potential conservation partners, including private industry, non-government organizations, Indian tribes, state and local governments, water districts, and universities to submit project applications for federal funding through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 48 months in prison today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania after being convicted of failing to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes following a jury trial in September 2016, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
