News from July 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing entitled, “Consideration to Nominate David J. Kautter, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A physician who ran a medical office in Parlin, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for structuring over $1.4 million in order to avoid reporting requirements, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: On Friday, July 14, 2017, a federal jury in Miami convicted Gerti Muho, 33, of Ridgewood, New York, for devising and executing a three-year fraud scheme that targeted various banks, lenders, and companies, including his former New York-based hedge fund employer and numerous real person victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Craig Allen Otteson, 65, of McKinney, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Paul D. Stickney and pleaded guilty to his role in a diamond investment scheme that the indictment alleged ran from approximately March 2011 to November 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The co-owners of an Indiana biofuel producer were sentenced today in the Northern District of Indiana by Senior Judge James T. Moody, announced the Justice Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael A. Connors, age 36, and a citizen of Ireland, was sentenced today to time served (24 days in jail) for attempted illegal re-entry into the United States.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding reports that the Administration is negotiating the return of Russian spy compounds...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - The Department of Justice and (a division of Albertson’s Companies, Inc.) have reached a civil settlement of allegations the company failed to timely report controlled substances that were missing from pharmacies. Safeway will pay the United States $3 million and implement a compliance agreement reached with the Drug Enforcement (DEA) to ensure such notification lapses do not happen again.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Canadian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States and Stealing Government Funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: On behalf of the Trade Subcommittee’s Democrats, I want to thank Chairman Reichert for calling this important and much-needed hearing on the re-negotiation of NAFTA.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, let me begin by saying that everybody here is wishing Senator McCain a full and speedy recovery from his recent surgery. John McCain is tougher than just about anybody out there, so I’m sure he’ll be back in these halls soon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randy Payton, 35, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Churchrock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Payton entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends that he be sentenced to a term of imprisonment within the range of seven to 13 years followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former director of South Korea’s Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) has been found guilty of using a Southern California bank account to launder bribes he received from two seismological companies, including one based in Pasadena.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A physician who ran a medical office in Parlin, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for structuring over $1.4 million in order to avoid reporting requirements, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, Wyo. - Partial fire restrictions on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Wyoming’s Sheridan, Johnson and Campbell counties will begin July 18, 2017 due to dry conditions and high fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today for his role in leading a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in more than a dozen overdoses and multiple deaths.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman Jeff Duncan (SC-03) and Ranking Member Albio Sires (NJ-08) of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (CA-39) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (NY-16), and Chairwoman Emeritus Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), along with over...
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s actions against Iran. The administration announced new sanctions along with certification of Tehran’s technical compliance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Mohammed Nurey Ibrahim, age 41, a Eritrean citizen and resident of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, pled guilty today to presenting a fraudulently obtained visa to a United States Border Patrol Agent in Champlain, New York.
