News from July 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) emphasized - despite a frustrating process - his commitment to keeping his promise to repeal Obamacare and highlighted the devastating consequences if Congress fails to do so.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement calling on Senate Republicans to drop Trumpcare once and for all so the Senate may move forward with a public, bipartisan hearing process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) - who was found guilty by a jury last year of conspiring to engage in racketeering activities, which included him selling crack cocaine on Skid Row - has been sentenced to 360 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming invites the public to its annual statewide hearing on the use of helicopters and motorized vehicles in wild horse management operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Keondre McNeely is the sixth defendant sentenced in connection with firearms stolen from Outpost Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Allen D. Isner, age 52, of Nottingham, Maryland was sentenced to four years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis. Isner pled guilty to possession of child pornography. Judge Garbis ordered that, upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal marijuana trafficking charge, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: A pharmacist, who formerly practiced in Mt. Clemens, pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawfully distributing prescription drug controlled substances to a patient who took the drugs and died, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Juan Leonardo Tello, 50, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor following his guilty plea in March 2017 to one count of conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Joel R. Levin, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced the creation of a new unit dedicated to the prosecution of criminal health care fraud violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: A man who was found illegally in the United States was convicted by a jury on July 18, 2017, after a 1 ½-day trial in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing today to discuss the progress of state implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) has released the Public Comment Summary Report on Preliminary Concepts for the Acadia National Park Transportation Plan, which is available online at: go.nps.gov/PreliminaryConceptsComments. The report summarizes public comments on the preliminary concepts received from all sources during the comment period held in fall 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Raul Castellon, 38, of the Hialeah Police Department, and Neilin Gonzalez Diaz, 32, of Hialeah, were sentenced today in Miami, Florida, by U.S. District Court Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern District of Florida, to 60 months and 81 months in prison, respectively, with an order for forfeiture and restitution in the amount of $64,500 to follow. Castellon and Gonzalez Diaz previously pled guilty to corruption, access device fraud, and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Miami man was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for depositing over $4.7 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks as part of a massive stolen identity income tax scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Two West Virginia residents were convicted today of their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Raul Castellon, 38, of the Hialeah Police Department, and Neilin Gonzalez Diaz, 32, of Hialeah, were sentenced today in Miami, Florida, by U.S. District Court Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern District of Florida, to 60 months and 81 months in prison, respectively, with an order for forfeiture and restitution in the amount of $64,500 to follow. Castellon and Gonzalez Diaz previously pled guilty to corruption, access device fraud, and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against two former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center and three others indicted by a federal grand jury today related to conspiracies to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announces that PORSCHE RENNE DILLARD was arrested yesterday, July 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Agrees to Pay $64,723.03 in Restitution to Carbon County.
