News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A 14-count federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Providence charges two individuals, Hasan Hussain, 55, of Princeton, N.J., and Ricardo Abreu, 50, of Cranston, R.I., with allegedly participating in a conspiracy to defraud financial institutions, investors and financially...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Lake Forest woman who participated in a real estate investment scheme in which Southern California investors collectively suffered nearly $3.5 million in losses has pleaded guilty to federal charges.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House overwhelmingly passed Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) Digital Global Access Policy Act (H.R. 600) to promote internet access in developing countries, which will in turn help reduce poverty, improve education, empower women, and advance U.S. interests.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced the signing of an executive order to advance completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Obama administration previously denied approval for the final segment of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2015 after years of exhaustive study and delays.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Luis Benitez-Hernandez, age 30, an El Salvadoran national, was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell for hindering his removal from the United States and assaulting law enforcement officers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced the subcommittee Ranking Members for the 115th Congress and released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found a Texas man guilty last week of transporting methamphetamine for later sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Derrick Haskan, of Kayenta, Ariz. and a member of the Navajo Indian Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 240 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Haskan had previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet at the BLM Alaska Fairbanks District Office (FDO) located at 222 University Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska. The meeting starts at 8:30 a.m. each day in the Kobuk Conference Room and will adjourn on February 3rd...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two brothers, both enrolled members of the Navajo Nation who reside in Kirtland, N.M., were sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for convictions arising out of the March 21, 2015 murder of a Navajo man. Elijah Shirley, 31, was sentenced to 121 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and Michael Shirley, 32, was sentenced to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mission Viejo man who admitted taking more than $2.3 million from investors in a fraudulent real estate investment scheme has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Illinois Woman Pleads Guilty in Stolen Identity Tax Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Deric Jevon Twitty, 38, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to 324 months in prison for his role in a multi-year conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and marijuana up and down the east coast. Twitty was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $3.37 million, which represents the proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Oakdale woman pleaded guilty last week to receiving bribes for smuggling cell phones and tobacco into the Federal Correctional Institution at Oakdale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: California Man Convicted for Stealing Prisoner Identities and Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 29-year-old David Milner of El Paso to 15 years in federal prison for implementing a human sex trafficking scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division; and, FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined a majority of committee members in voting to favorably report the nomination of Governor Nikki Haley (R-S.C.) to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that AARON EMIL WEEDEN, age 37, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by no more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a$250,000.00 fine or both.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of the Digital GAP Act (H.R. 600 )...
