News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: SEATTLE - A follow-up assessment of the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) investigations and chain of command review of intermediate-level, Type II uses of force has found SPD are in initial compliance with the requirements of the Court-ordered agreement with the Department of Justice, announced U. S.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged his colleagues to support the nomination of Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State. A majority of senators approved a procedural motion on Monday evening that will set a final vote on Tillerson’s nomination on Wednesday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a previously unreleased Jan. 24 letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) highlight the damage to Indian Country should Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and urge the majority to reconsider its plan to eliminate the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Jan. 30, 2017, Patricia Urbanovsky of Omaha, Nebraska, age 31, was sentenced for sixteen (16) counts of wire fraud. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Urbanovsky to a term of sixty-three (63)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that three residents of Brooklyn, New York were recently sentenced in United States District Court in Brattleboro following their guilty pleas to charges involving credit card fraud. Today, U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Admitted Sexually Exploiting 12 Minor Victims to Produce Child Pornography; Related State Charges Still Pending.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Pound, Virginia man, who brought a minor to a cockfight, distributed hydrocodone and conspired with others to facilitate cockfighting, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House and Senate leaders with jurisdiction over workforce protections and federal contracting today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval that would block implementation of the Obama administration’s flawed, redundant, and burdensome “blacklisting" rule through the Congressional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: MONGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, pled guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance through operating a “pill mill" and money laundering scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 25, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 13 defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of San Sebastián, PR, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), Aguadilla Strike Force Unit, are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 22 kilograms of heroin in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Edward Joseph Matish III, 25, of Williamsburg, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for accessing with intent to view child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. Matish was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: The public open houses will be held on February 14 and 15 from 4 - 6 p.m. A short presentation will start at 4:30 followed by a question and answer period and open house.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Dear Senators McConnell and Hatch: We write with serious concern about Senate Republicans’ rush to confirm Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite outstanding and significant questions about his qualifications and ethical conduct. The Senate has a responsibility to thoroughly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to using a minor to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAQUAN PARRISH, a/k/a “MadDog," a/k/a “Quanzaa," pled guilty today to racketeering and firearms charges in connection with his leadership of the “2Fly YGz" (“2Fly") gang, a violent street gang that operated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nevada, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy to exchange “food stamps" for methamphetamine or cash.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Providing wireless communications in a factory, plant or other industrial environment these days means more than just helping employees talk with each other while they work. By eliminating physical connections such as wires and cables from a facility’s communication network, wireless technology offers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN AFRIYIE, a former analyst at the Manhattan-based private investment fund (the “Fund") was found guilty this afternoon in Manhattan federal court of securities fraud and wire fraud for committing insider...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Two Deaf Victims Help Identify Him as Assailant; Defendant Had Been Their Co-Worker.
