News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: High-powered firearms, Ecstasy allegedly seized during RI State Police Traffic Stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On July 13, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 27 defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Utuado, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), welcomed the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's Chief Game Warden Brian Nesvik to the committee. Mr. Nesvik was testifying before the committee at a legislative hearing on S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation (HELP) for Wildlife Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 18, 2017, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Levester R. Brown (age: 33) of Milwaukee, Christopher L. Maccani (age: 37) of Green Bay, Jimmy L. Desotell (age: 25) of Green...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: New York attorney was charged with conspiracy to unlawfully sell unregistered securities in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue shares in the companies that they and other conspirators secretly controlled, and sell the shares to the investing public at a profit. To date, seven defendants have been charged in connection with the ongoing prosecution of this scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a markup to advance groundbreaking bipartisan self-driving legislation that will prioritize safety while encouraging innovation. This draft legislation passed out of the subcommittee by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Alabama Man Indicted in Alleged $19 Million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, 22 Senate Democrats, led by U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Assistant Secretary Douglas Lamont ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Floyd Benko, age 62, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to false statement charges in connection with his performance of flawed genetic diagnostic tests for 124 cancer patients.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee markup of the, “Staff Draft on Highly Automated Vehicle Testing and Deployment:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: On Wednesday, July 19, 2017, federal search warrants were executed at the following locations in Iowa, Colorado, Oregon, and Nevada.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation (HELP) for Wildlife Act." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Dustin A. Fleming, 30, of DuQuoin, Illinois, who is employed as a correctional officer by the Illinois Department of Corrections, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an information charging him with depriving an inmate of his federal civil rights, announced Donald S. Boyce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 30-year-old Longview, Texas man has been indicted for his role in a student financial aid fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Roderick L. Wyatt, 61, of Stone Mountain, Ga., has been charged with accepting bribe payments in exchange for approving the enrollment of almost 20 students to a local college, through a federal workforce program in DeKalb County. The federal indictment alleges that Wyatt agreed to accept payments from the college president for each student sent to the college through Worksource DeKalb, a federally funded program.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: July 19, 2017 - This is the annual update of the interactive global resource on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths, updated through 2016. First developed in 1987, this marks 31 years of database releases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for robbing two banks in Framingham.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: In Alpine, a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Karl Henry Peterson to 37 months in federal prison for setting the U.S. Post Office in Alpine ablaze last year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Investigation Service, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kyle Petersen, 31, of New Britain, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and other controlled substances.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed two energy bills that seek to advance the nation’s energy infrastructure through targeted reforms to the federal government’s permitting and siting policies for oil and natural gas pipelines. Yesterday, the House advanced four additional committee...
