News from January 2017
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate health committee, today Senate Democrats spoke on the Senate floor to condemn recent threats by President Trump and Congressional Republicans to women’s constitutionally protected reproductive health care rights. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA - Roam Savage Chandler, 22, of Missoula, Montana, pleaded guilty today in Missoula federal court to sex trafficking of a minor and racketeering charges. He faces a mandatory prison sentence of 10 years to life in prison for the trafficking count and up to five years for the racketeering charge. U.S. District Court Judge Donald W. Molloy presided over the change of plea and set sentencing for May 11, 2017 in Missoula.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Cranbury Township, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for failing to report over $1.5 million in income he fraudulently diverted to overseas shell companies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At a meeting today of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Chairman Jason Chaffetz led Republican opposition in an effort to defeat an amendment offered by Rep. Brenda Lawrence to subpoena Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for documents he has refused to provide in response to a bipartisan request made nearly a year ago by Chaffetz and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nomination of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to head the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Ross D. Pickard (63, Naples) with one count of conspiracy and three counts of loan and credit application fraud. If convicted, he faces up to 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy count and up to 30 years on each of the fraud counts. The indictment also notifies him that the United States is seeking a money judgment for the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Oswaldo Jariel Bonilla, age 29, of Adelphi, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit an armed commercial robbery, attempted armed robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Chuang also ordered Bonilla to pay restitution of $1,038.99 to the company he attempted to rob.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Implied to the tellers in all three that he had a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David Capp announced federal racketeering charges against 11 additional members of the Latin Kings, a criminal enterprise doing business in Chicago and northwest Indiana. The Indictment also alleges a drug conspiracy in which the 11 plus another additional individual were charged. Named in today’s indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adam Brzozowski, 23, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to import alprazolam, was sentenced to time served (approximately six months) and one year of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Jan. 24, 2017, Dallas Wayne Thundershield, 36, Fort Totten, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve the rest of his natural life in prison and serve 5 years of supervised release. Judge Erickson also ordered that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 29-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of conspiracy and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Daniel Elizondo March 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Davis took more than $140,000 in payments for no-show job.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two associates of the Wildboys street gang in South Carolina have pleaded guilty to attempted murder in aid of racketeering for their roles in gang-related shootings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that BOBBY LEE RUPPEL JR, age 37, of Del City, 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Marshals late last week arrested a Jefferson County man on a charge of sex trafficking of a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program."
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Beginning in late January 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed burning operations in Chaves County. The Sand Ranch prescribed fire, consisting of three burn units, is located 45 miles east of Roswell, and the Milner Lake prescribed fire is located 10 miles northeast...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty today to possessing stolen mail and making counterfeit U.S. currency, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
