News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for making illegal straw purchases of 24 firearms over two days, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Trevor Velinor, ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was arrested for his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Alex Lenard McCoy, 32, of Gastonia, N.C. was sentenced today to 310 months in prison on a federal drug conspiracy charge and a supervised release violation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney also ordered McCoy to serve five years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who owned a West Los Angeles pharmacy were found guilty by a federal jury today of operating a years-long narcotic drug trafficking, money laundering and tax fraud conspiracy that illegally sold prescription narcotics to black market customers across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A New Jersey man, who was dealing heroin in the City of Roanoke, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke on a federal drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Next year, scientists expect to change the way we define the basic units with which we measure our universe. An article by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) written for teachers will help ensure high school physics students are hip to the news.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Charles Burton Ritchie, 46, Benjamin Galecki, 42, both of Pensacola, Florida, were convicted today by a federal jury on charges related to their respective roles in a $21 million spice manufacturing and distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Jan. 23, 2017, the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, sentenced Anthony Whitewater, 24, and Marcus Blackhawk, 27, to the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons after they...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Irvington, New Jersey, man today admitted that he stole more than $840,000 from the U.S. Government through a scheme to exchange food stamps for cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - According to signed documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence today, Raymond E. Gallison, Jr., 64, of Bristol, R.I., a former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and House Finance Committee Chairman, has agreed to plead guilty to federal mail fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and filing false tax return charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Katmai National Park and Preserve, King Salmon, AK - At approximately 12:45 pm on Sunday, Jan. 22, park rangers received a report that a small aircraft had gone down in the Hallo Bay area of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B Two Wichita men pleaded guilty Monday of brandishing or aiding and abetting another robber who brandished a firearm during a bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Through Presidential Proclamation, Barack Obama recognized January 2017 as NATIONAL SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH. In recognition of this month, the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Vermont join together to shine a light on the modern-day slavery known as human trafficking, a crisis facing the nation and Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Defendant embezzled the money over nearly 12 years through stealing checks and using a secret account.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that sentences were imposed upon Tamara Andreatta, age 45, and Stacy Rix, 47, both of Albany, on Jan. 19, 2017, in Albany, GA, by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, District Judge for the Middle District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men pled guilty to methamphetamine distribution charges in federal court today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - Seven alleged members of a drug trafficking organization responsible for shipping large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and Xanax across West Tennessee have been charged in a 16-count indictment. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Union City, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: **POSTPONED** The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today announced the postponement of a business meeting on Tuesday, January 24 at 9:30 a.m. EST in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. until further notice.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 23, 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 on the Collins-Cassidy proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
