News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: New Haven - U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut collected $792,906,133.31 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $783,664,236.82 was collected in criminal actions and $9,241,896.49 was collected in civil actions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Reps. Bill Johnson (R-OH), Evan Jenkins (R-WV) and David McKinley (R-WV) introduced H. J. Res. 38. This is a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act related to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) final Stream Protection...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier this month, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to serve as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When answering questions from EPW Democrats, both at the hearing and in his responses to questions submitted for the record, Mr. Pruitt misrepresented his own environmental record.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Release Date: Jan. 31, 2017. Contact: Kelly Carroll, Lead Park Ranger. Phone: 671-333-4050. February Public Programs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park. February 4, Saturday: at Ga’an Point - “Paint in the Park". Make a mark in your park during our artist led painting sessions! Come and embrace...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute massive quantities of marijuana and cocaine in central Kentucky,
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for his role in a scheme involving the illegal export of firearms from the United States using a hidden online marketplace, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, introduced S. J. Res 11 and H. J. Res. 36. These are joint resolutions of disapproval ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Jashawn Bailey, 30, was arrested Friday on a criminal complaint charging him with one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today. Bailey made his initial appearance on the same day before United States Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller. He was released pending a preliminary hearing set for Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary B. McCord, U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge Michael Harpster of the FBI's Philadelphia Division announced today that Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, age 20, a U.S. citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA - Rodney Lee Zahn, 60, formerly of Sheridan, Montana, pleaded guilty today in Missoula federal court to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. He faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years to life, up to $250,000 dollars in fines, and not...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 105,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Defendant conspired to distribute more than two thousand pounds of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal Helped Samy El-Goarany Travel from New York City to Syria, where El-Goarany Joined, Trained with, and Died Fighting for ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Michael E. Myers, a 60-year old resident of Godfrey, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court to 235 months’ imprisonment for one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of receipt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Clarence Henry Andrews, age 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty late on Jan. 27, 2017, to production of child pornography. Andrews is a registered sex offender as a result of a 2010 conviction in Prince George’s County Circuit Court for a fourth degree sex offense and second degree assault, in connection with his abuse of a nine-year-old boy in the bathroom of a Laurel, Maryland, church.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - Melissa Garcia, new Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley field manager, will be sworn in by BLM Colorado State Director Ruth Welch at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2. The swearing in ceremony will take place at the BLM San Luis Valley field office, 1313 East Highway 160 in Monte Vista. The public is invited to attend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Bank Robbery at BBVA Compass Bank, 6001 Academy Blvd NE, Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Ohio Doctor Pleads Guilty to Running South Side Medical Center as Drug Premises and Evading More Than $3.5 Million in Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. B A Wabaunsee County woman who was the executor of her mother’s estate pleaded guilty Monday to fraud in the sale a South Padre Island condo, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: “Once again, we have shown that terrorists and terrorist enablers can be brought to justice fairly, openly, and swiftly in the crown jewel of our justice system -- civilian courts. Today, a jury in federal court in Manhattan convicted Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal of material support of terrorism. To grow...
