News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The husband of the former Deputy Chief of Mission in Rabat, Morocco was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for sexually abusing a former household staff member from 2010 to 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Salt Lake City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today held a competitive coal lease sale by sealed bid for the Greens Hollow Coal Tract- a 6,175.39 acre area in Sanpete and Sevier Counties that is estimated to contain approximately 55.7 million tons of recoverable coal and is adjacent to the SUFCO mine, which contains other federal coal leases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Arkansas state representative pleaded guilty today to conspiring to authorize and direct a total of $600,000 in state government funds to two non-profit entities in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in kickback payments, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Elser of the Western District of Arkansas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced legislation Wednesday to create an independent, nonpartisan commission to comprehensively investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN VOLOSHIN, 60, formerly of New Haven and Woodbridge, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud and also admitted to violating a condition of his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: MDENT surveillance leads to discovery of over 270 grams of 97% pure methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Joplin, Mo., police officer was sentenced in federal court today for violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by attempting to get her case dismissed in exchange for a sexual relationship.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) on Tuesday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today announced that Brandon Casey has been named Democratic Chief of Staff for the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling nearly $5.3 million from her employer.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after meeting with President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congressman Tom Price (R-GA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Arkansas state representative pleaded guilty today to conspiring to authorize and direct a total of $600,000 in state government funds to two non-profit entities in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in kickback payments, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Elser of the Western District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Manuel Tirado (34) of New York City, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 15 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills and failing to appear in Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man who was selling heroin out of his home and other location in Southeast Roanoke was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump, urging him to keep his commitment to invest in infrastructure and take the necessary actions to make the $9 billion balance of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund immediately available to dredge the nation’s ports and inland harbors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Wednesday that United States District Court Judge James M. Moody Jr., sentenced Tonique Hatton, 39, of North Little Rock, to prison for her role in a widespread scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Iraqi man who falsified his application for a visa by claiming to have worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Jonathan Sebert, age 24, of Clarion, Iowa, has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on Dec. 28, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States Attorney’s Office today announced a settlement with the YMCA of Metro Chicago to resolve a complaint of discrimination filed on behalf of a child with type 1 diabetes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The 2017 Glacier National Park annual entrance pass is now available at park entrance stations and the park headquarters building in West Glacier.
