News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Claud R. Koerber aka Rick Koerber with violations of federal law in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: On Jan. 18, 2017, Kyle E. Easterly, 30, of Murphysboro, was sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine offenses, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with every Democratic member of the Committee, today sent a letter to all governors, Republican and Democrat, asking for feedback on the expected impact of Republican proposals to block grant or cap Medicaid, which would result...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the House voted to pass a resolution that begins the process of repealing Obamacare.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after Mexico’s decision to extradite to the United States the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo" Guzman...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 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 Steven Mnuchin to head the U.S. Treasury Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a North Carolina man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the sexual exploitation of a child in Joplin, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Jesus Lee, 37, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Connecticut investment manager has been arrested for allegedly operating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that swindled approximately 30 individuals, including victims who reside in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 64-year-old Grand Prairie, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and perjury in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Milton Minter a/k/a White Boi has been sentenced as one of the leaders of a group that stole over $10 million in U.S. Treasury checks and cashed them at Walmart and Kroger stores using fake identifications.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,400 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a $1.2 million conspiracy to distribute oxycodone that was obtained by using forged and fraudulent prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PATCHOGUE, NY. The National Park Service has released a prospectus for a concession opportunity for Fire Island National Seashore at its Watch Hill and Sailors Haven locations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today hosted Republican state governors for a discussion on the future of Medicaid with Republican Senate Finance Committee members. Following the meeting, Hatch issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON GALANIS pled guilty today to defrauding a Native American tribal entity and the investing public of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity. GALANIS pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit investment adviser fraud before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Alexis McDonald, 19, of Elkins, West Virginia, pled guilty to illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Gurpreet Singh Found Guilty of Unlawfully Obtaining U.S. Citizenship.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on the announcement that Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue will be nominated to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
