News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from Chicago has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for illegally possessing and trafficking two dozen handguns, most of which had been stolen from a shipment of firearms at a railyard on the South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Michael Morgan Dietch (60, Port Orange) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for distribution of Schedule II controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice, without a legitimate medical purpose. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Patrick Shawn Sutphin, age 44, formerly of Easton, Maryland, today to 345 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, after Sutphin pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child to produce child pornography. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who admitted committing two armed carjackings in Dallas on two consecutive days in May 2015, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Every day patients and middle-class families are facing higher premiums. The Energy and Commerce Committee today released 21 graphics showcasing states where premiums have gone up by the national average of 25 percent or more. All of the graphics can be found on the committee’s newly created Health Care Central, a go-to resource in the effort to deliver meaningful health care reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Zaid Bader Jacob, 47, of West Sacramento, is scheduled to be arraigned today after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO, Ill. - Federal safety inspectors saw seven employees of a Park Ridge contractor performing masonry work on a Chicago building at heights up to 40 feet without adequate fall protection and have issued citations to the company. The company committed similar violations in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will publish a proposed rule to amend the country of origin labeling (COOL) regulation to add muscle cuts of venison and ground venison to the list of commodities covered under the labeling law.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proposing to adjust membership on the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board to reflect shifts in cattle inventory levels since the last board reapportionment in 2014, as required by the rules governing the board.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington - a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $12,500,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced funding for 39 projects in over 20 states that will preserve and highlight the sites and stories associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the African American experience.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s notice alleging that Fiat Chrysler America knowingly violated the Clean Air Act by using software in its vehicles to circumvent emissions standards testing for certain air pollutants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Samuel Bowron Phillips, age 41 of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count each of Mail Fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara A. Stingley (619)546-8403.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dennis Rosen, Inspector General of the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Darius Jamal Shields-Dryden (“Shields-Dryden") pled guilty yesterday to a five-count Information charging him with making material false statements to federally licensed firearms dealers in connection...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s notice alleging that Fiat Chrysler America knowingly violated the Clean Air Act by using software in its vehicles to circumvent emissions standards testing for certain air pollutants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A North Carolina man, previously convicted of enticing a minor in Danville, Ky., to engage in sexually explicit conduct, was sentenced on Tuesday to 262 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) sent a letter to the Chairmen of their respective committees today requesting public hearings immediately on the impact of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a man arrested near Kansas City, Mo., has been charged in federal court with attempting to entice a missing Springfield, Mo., teen to engage in illicit sexual activity.
