News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced H.R. 396, the Tax Accountability Act, which renders individuals with seriously delinquent tax debt ineligible for federal civilian employment, contracts, or grants.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park’s Lower Emerald Pool Trail and a portion of Sand Bench Trail are closed. Recent winter weather, snow, ice and rain have caused several rock and debris slides along the Lower Emerald Pool Trail and river undercutting on the Sand Bench Trail, between the Lodge and Court of the Patriarchs. Both trails are impassable and unsafe for hikers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A U.S. citizen who was living in Matamoros has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Francisco Moreno, 22, pleaded guilty Oct. 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Anthony Molinero, 70, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with one count of theft of government funds, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the Information[1], the defendant received retirement benefits intended for his mother, after his mother’s death in May 2000 until March 2014. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of approximately $150,999.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A Detroit-area neurosurgeon was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for his role in $2.8 million health care fraud scheme in which he caused serious bodily harm to patients by performing unnecessary invasive spinal surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Jesse Wade Pelkey, 38, of Imperial Beach, California, was sentenced in federal court on January 5, 2017, by Senior District Judge Helen Gillmor to 336 months (28 years) imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the State of Hawaii. Pelkey had previously pled guilty on Sept. 19, 2016 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lia Bantavani, lia.bantavani@usdoj.gov, 704-277-4259.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced former Stevenson, Ala., Police Chief DANIEL WINTERS, 56, to more than two years in prison for beating an arrestee and for standing by while Winters’ friend beat the arrestee, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The FAA said today that U.S. airlines would no longer be required to make a pre-boarding notification to passengers that the Samsung Galaxy Note7 phone is prohibited from transport on aircraft. The devices are still prohibited on both passenger and air cargo aircraft, but the DOT has lifted the requirement that the airlines make the specific pre-boarding notification.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory Kurzajczyk, age 69, of East Durham, New York, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for distributing and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Four Individuals Charged for Alleged Involvement in Foreign Bribery Scheme Involving $800 Million International Real Estate Deal.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today signaled her support for General John Kelly USMC (Ret.), President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, who faced questions from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where McCaskill is the lead Democrat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA announced the recent discovery of three overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid U-47700, commonly referred to as “Pink." The toxicology and investigative reports documenting the fatalities were shared with agents and intelligence resources as part of ongoing efforts by DEA’s Heroin Enforcement Action (HEAT), an enforcement program by DEA’s Phoenix Division to identify and arrest drug traffickers directly responsible for overdose deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Tuesday that United States District Court Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., sentenced James E. Franklin, Jr., 34, of Marianna, to prison for his role in a widespread scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Arlington, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Defendants Attempted to Pay $2.5 Million in Bribes to Facilitate a South Korean Company’s Sale of the Landmark 72 Building in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Tallest Building in the Indochina Peninsula at the Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Haleem Celestial White, age 25, of Washington D.C. today to 150 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for armed robberies of pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Justin Kaliebe, an American citizen and resident of Babylon and Bay Shore, New York, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release with special conditions (including computer monitoring, a prohibition on contact...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: One Hundred Years of Kennedy: A Birthplace Centennial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Colbert County man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to charges related to an attempt to ship about a pound of methamphetamine from Los Angeles to the Colbert County town of Leighton using the U.S. Mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez.
