News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Fugitive Faces Criminal Charges For Sex Trafficking In Eastern District Of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ricardo Rodriguez (24) and Brandon Mojica (23), both of Deltona, have pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during that robbery. Each faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison for the armed robbery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Clifton, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for health care fraud, obstructing a federal audit, and other charges associated with his illegal operation of an ambulance company despite having been banned from participating in federal health care programs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park seeks comments from the public on a proposed project to construct an antenna mounting structure at the Mount Washburn Fire Lookout that would improve poor telecommunications services at the Old Faithful, Grant, Lake, and Canyon developed areas. At Canyon, this project would provide better cellular service in the developed area and limit spillover into the backcountry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today the government unsealed a plea agreement with the owner and operator of Columbus Southern Medical Center, which provided unlawful prescriptions of controlled substances to addicts throughout the Midwest and who engaged in a series of schemes to evade more than $3.5 million in taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement announcing that he will vote against the confirmation of Tom Price for HHS Secretary and Steven Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that STEVE EARL PERRY JR, age 26, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM & AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e), punishable by no more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Imperial, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN WILLIAMS was found guilty Friday of conspiring to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine. WILLIAMS was convicted after a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Imperial, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: On March 6, 2017 President Trump issued a new Executive Order on Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States that rescinded the Executive Order that was issued on Jan. 27, 2017. Click here for more information.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: On March 6, 2017 President Trump issued a new Executive Order on Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States that rescinded the Executive Order that was issued on Jan. 27, 2017. Click here for more information.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: On March 6, 2017 President Trump issued a new Executive Order on Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States that rescinded the Executive Order that was issued on Jan. 27, 2017. Click here for more information.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: The Honorable John F. Kelly. Secretary of Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security. Washington, DC 20528. Secretary Kelly: It has become clear to us over the last 48 hours that the Executive Order issued by President Trump on Friday, Jan. 27, entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced the Committee will mark up the nomination of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to serve as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary in an executive session on Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 10 a.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the City of Santa Monica, California have reached a settlement agreement.pdf) to resolve longstanding litigation over the future of Santa Monica Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Transportation for Prostitution was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2017 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
