News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Anne Marie Johnson, 38, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 14 months in federal prison for misprision of a felony for her role in the manslaughter of Marshall Scott Dent committed on Indian land, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn tax preparer was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns and pocket the excess refunds she fabricated.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today released the following statement after meeting with General John Kelly USMC (Ret.), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017 on Thursday. It is a companion to a bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) that passed the House on Wednesday.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Regional Director Brent Rhees signed a Record of Decision today, paving the way for continued implementation of the Rio Grande Project’s 2008 Operating Agreement through the year 2050.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nathan Antonio Davis, age 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty late on Jan. 3, 2017, to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine; and conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement that the reconciliation bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act will also defund Planned Parenthood...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Energy and Commerce, released detailed state-by-state fact sheets summarizing the devastating effects on individuals and families if President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mark W. Wolfe, 51, of Sunbury, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison, 20 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lisa-Marie Watson, 25, of Athens, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A former Division Director of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department was sentenced to seven year’s imprisonment for his involvement in a $5,000,000 fraud and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Capri M. Williams, 26, of Richmond, was sentenced today to three years in prison for identity theft and bank fraud crimes related to her stealing personal identifying information (PII) of hundreds of patients while employed at Commonwealth Primary Care (CPC), Inc., in Richmond. Williams was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $34,906.15 in restitution to the victims of her crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: JAN 05 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Juan Rojas, 32, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty (1) conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway cautions visitors about pavement problems in the Mississippi section of the Parkway. Extreme drought over the late summer caused severe cracking and movement of the parkway motor road surface in many areas. Differential settlement across lanes can be problematic especially for motorcycles and recreational vehicles. The movement in the pavement surface is due to shrinkage of the underlying soils.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for oil and gas leasing and development in the BLM’s Central Coast Field Office.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after announcing committee leadership for the 115th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Energy and Commerce, released detailed state-by-state fact sheets summarizing the devastating effects on individuals and families if President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sukita M Williams, 44, of Las Vegas and Hilliard, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for her role in an Oxycodone ring between Las Vegas and Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Rangel Arce, 45, a Mexican national unlawfully in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 87 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Luis Rangel Arce will be deported after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Theodore Fulton, age 61, of South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs...
