News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darrin Landes was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment on wire fraud charges and violation of his supervised release, both of which involved Landes’ scheme to sell sporting event tickets, but not delivering them to the purchasers after they sent payment to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, a federal jury found Nancy Chan, a 39-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom and City of Austin employee, guilty of perpetrating a marriage fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr and Special Agent in Charge Jeff Arndt, Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Butler County resident has been sentenced in federal court to one day in the custody of the United States Marshals Service, three years supervised release, the first six months of which are to be served at the Renewal Center, the second six months of which are to be served on home detention, and ordered to pay $124,965.86 on her conviction of embezzlement relating to health care, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Meadowvale Dairy, LLC, has agreed to pay a civil penalty and take actions to prevent illegal discharges to Iowa streams in compliance with the Clean Water Act, officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Meadowvale Dairy operates multiple concentrated animal feeding operations in Rock Valley, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jeffrey Dean Daily, age 44, of Gaffney, pled guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Anderson to use of an explosive device to damage a building, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(i). United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darrin Landes was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment on wire fraud charges and violation of his supervised release, both of which involved Landes’ scheme to sell sporting event tickets, but not delivering them to the purchasers after they sent payment to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - James Morales, 35, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment today in U.S. District Court in Providence before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan to an indictment charging him with escape from the Wyatt Detention Facility, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Robert Lighthizer to be the next United States Trade Representative (USTR).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson’s (R-TX) decision to retire after serving out the remainder of the 115th Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Brady Kicks Off 115th Congress. Jan. 3, 2017 - Press Releases. WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the start of the 115th Congress: “I was honored to be sworn in today to serve the people of the 8th district of Texas. The 115th...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ The owner of a Rio Grande Valley area durable medical equipment (DME) company has been arrested for her scheme to defraud Texas Medicaid through fraudulent billings, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JASON WAYNE CAREY, age 37, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, and 3 years supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 842(i)(1) and 844(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Loren Michelle Toelle, 52, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho pleaded guilty yesterday conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and conspiracy to launder money, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Toelle was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on Jan. 20, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests are seeking public comment on a natural gas development proposal that’s about 12 miles north of Paonia, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - George Eric Stevens, 33, of Jamaica, New York, pleaded guilty today to charges his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) issued the following statements regarding today’s announcement that the United States is launching a new World Trade Organization (WTO) enforcement action against China for providing subsidies to Chinese aluminum producers, which causes global overcapacity in aluminum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ The owner of a Rio Grande Valley area durable medical equipment (DME) company has been arrested for her scheme to defraud Texas Medicaid through fraudulent billings, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Deandre Marqui Gray (42, Houston, Texas) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ernest Schaeffer, age 40, of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for methamphetamine trafficking and possessing firearms in connection with drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bianca Bush-Bronson, 38, the former office manager for a consulting and lobbying firm, has been sentenced to three years in prison for a scheme in which she embezzled more than $340,000 from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
