News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Three Companies and Their Executives Pay $19.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Pertaining to Rehabilitation Therapy and Hospice Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Toni Louise Plummer-Alvernaz (Plummer) was sentenced to one year in prison, $246,024 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment. The sentencing occurred on July 14, 2017, before U.S. District Chief Judge Dana Christensen, in Great Falls, Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Fentanyl and cocaine seized. GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two defendants pleaded guilty on July 14, 2017, to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in Orange County, North Carolina, announced Sandra J. Hairston, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. AGUSTIN GUDINO AGUILAR...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - A Florida businessman was sentenced today to 57 months in prison in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for conspiring to commit tax and bank fraud, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Roosevelt Jones, 52, of Selma, was sentenced today in federal court on charges involving his illegal possession of a firearm. Jones has three prior convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm in...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: On Wednesday, July 19 at 2:30 p.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will mark up the Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act (H.R. 2823). Introduced by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), the legislation would protect access to affordable retirement advice by overturning the Obama administration’s fiduciary rule while ensuring retirement advisors serve their clients’ best interests.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Dear Ambassador Lighthizer: The U.S. trade agreement with South Korea remains a key cornerstone of U.S. economic and strategic engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. Preserving and strengthening the strong economic relationship between the United States and South Korea is particularly important today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Two Iranian Nationals Charged in Hacking of Vermont Software Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to five counts of drug and firearm charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement on the NAFTA Summary of Objectives released by the U.S. Trade Representative’s office today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -Joao Pereira da Fonseca, 55, a citizen of Portugal, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he conspired to help an Iranian company unlawfully obtain sophisticated equipment from two companies in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Constantin Chiriac, age 41, and a citizen of Moldova, pled guilty today to transporting an alien who had illegally crossed into the United States from Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Mark K. White, 64, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Aleta Trauger, to 35 years in prison for Production of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAI VAN NGUYEN, 42, of Lynnwood, Wash., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 38 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a fraud scheme targeting members of the Vietnamese community in Connecticut and other states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Jodi Swett, 31, of Weare, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing multiple firearms and ammunition as a prohibited person.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Local residents now have increased advantages to being hired at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, thanks to new hiring authority sought by park management and supported by Coconino County Commissioner Lena Fowler.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statements after the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a summary of objectives for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Mark K. White, 64, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Aleta Trauger, to 35 years in prison for Production of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Chukwudi Olisemeka, age 48, and a citizen of Nigeria, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Toni Louise Plummer-Alvernaz (Plummer) was sentenced to one year in prison, $246,024 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment. The sentencing occurred on July 14, 2017, before U.S. District Chief Judge Dana Christensen, in Great Falls, Montana.
