News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Mo., men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a series of local armed robberies following a head-on collision with a police vehicle in a Quik Trip parking lot while attempting to flee from officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The President has designated January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut continues to prioritize human trafficking offenses, which are among the most heinous crimes the Office prosecutes. Federal prosecutors focus their resources on prosecuting the sex trafficking of minors, but also investigates cases involving the sex trafficking of particularly vulnerable adults and labor trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Dynamic New Focal Point Introduces the Presidio Experience to Locals and Visitors Alike.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Case represents first time in eastern Kentucky that a life sentence was imposed as a result of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today announced ranking member and subcommittee assignments for Democratic Committee Members in the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to multiple bank robberies throughout the Boston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: During the first weeks of the 115th Congress, Republicans are choosing to prioritize a series of anti-regulation bills that would empower Republicans to strip critical protections away from Americans. H.R. 5, the so-called Regulatory Accountability Act, would grind the rulemaking system to a halt while ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC and other subsidiaries of Shire plc (Shire) will pay $350 million to settle federal and state False Claims Act allegations that Shire and the company it acquired in 2011, Advanced BioHealing (ABH), employed...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Celebrate parks and health in the National Parks of Southern West Virginia with the continuation of the New River Gorge National River 100 Mile Challenge. This program started in 2016 as a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, but it has grown...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Crater Lake National Park rangers rescued three visitors on Wednesday afternoon after recent snowstorms forced them to take refuge in a heated restroom in Rim Village. A rotary snow plow cleared a path on the three-mile road from park headquarters to Rim Village to reach the stranded visitors. None of the individuals sustained major injuries.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017. Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT): Remarks as Delivered: I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte. I also want to thank Congressman Ratcliffe of Texas. Included in H.R. 5 is the All Economic Regulations Are Transparent Act, or the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Octavio Herrera, 54, of Ruidoso Downs, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Garrett Brosnan, 25, of Bath, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to one year and one day in prison and two years of supervised release for attempting to transfer obscene matter to a minor. Brosnan pleaded guilty to the offense on Sept. 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Adrian Jaimes, 22, Nekoosa, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 97 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography. This prison term is to be followed by 20 years of supervised release. Jaimes pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Request for Public Assistance to Identify Bank Robber.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Appropriations, today welcomed four new Democratic members confirmed by the House Democratic Caucus to serve on the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: On Jan. 11, 2017, Charles W. Yearian, a/k/a "Chuckie," 40, of Murphysboro, was sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine offenses, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: VW to Pay $2.8 Billion Criminal Fine in Guilty Plea and $1.5 Billion Settlement of Civil Environmental, Customs and Financial Violations; Monitor to Be Appointed to Oversee the Parent Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darold Ray ZunieFeathers, 20, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the appointment to the Committee of Representatives Dina Titus (NV), Norma Torres (CA), Brad Schneider (IL), Thomas Suozzi (NY), and Adriano Espaillat (NY)...
