News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (MINEOLA, N. Y. - - James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a Sands Point cardiologist who conspired to seriously injure a rival doctor was sentenced today to five years in prison with five years of post-release supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced today for conspiring to steal identities and unemployment benefits, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a new report detailing first-hand accounts from workers employed by Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. restaurants under the leadership of Andrew Puzder, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor. The alarming accounts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Maria Martinez a/k/a Maria Josefa Munagorri Diaz, age 49, of Madrid, Spain, pled guilty yesterday to attempting to illegally re-enter the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Former Tennessee Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the announcement that a hearing on President Trump’s nominee for the Department of Labor, CEO Andrew Puzder, will be delayed for a fourth time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - David Maxwell, 31, of Elkins, West Virginia pled guilty to methamphetamine distribution today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on Iran’s reported ballistic missile test...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID GIL-GRANDE, 29, of Manchester, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Georgia Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Jamarian Oliver (29, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for selling crack cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on August 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Shawn Howells, age 43, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with possessing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 30, 2017, U.S. District Judge David C. Campbell sentenced Betty Nora Anderson, 56, a member of the Gila River Indian Community, to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release for stealing approximately $200,000 from the Gila River Indian Community Scholarship Fund. Anderson had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BELTSVILLE, MD, Jan. 31, 2017-The U.S. Department of Agriculture 's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is leading efforts to combat Lyme disease in the Old Line State. Agency scientists are working with the Howard County (Md.) Department of Recreation & Parks (DRP), and the University of Maryland to study new ways to control deer ticks. The size of a sesame seed, deer ticks-via the backs of mice and white-tailed deer-spread the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Failed to Pay Over $1.4 Million in Federal Tax Due While Holding at Least Six Government Jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: This afternoon, a federal jury in Key West convicted a South Florida resident of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, an explosive device, and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today reintroduced the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act to slow the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington, prohibit “golden parachute" bonus payouts, and combat conflicts of interest.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), hosted His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for a discussion on U.S.-Jordan economic and security cooperation, the fight against ISIS and other issues of mutual interest.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM recently restructured its Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) office to increase direct management of its employees supporting the nuclear cleanup there in an ongoing effort to ensure consistent operations across the DOE complex.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) moved a planned public committee hearing to a classified briefing from Department of Homeland Security officials on President Trump’s controversial recent Executive Orders...
