News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Connie Moorman Willis (52, Morriston) today pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, two counts of embezzlement by a bank employee, and one count of access device (credit card) fraud.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today included in the Congressional Record the following statement in support of his measure requiring a Pentagon report on Russia-Serbia military cooperation. The measure passed the House today as part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R.2810 ).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force announced that broadcasters have requested $2.1 billion - significantly more than the $1.75 billion set aside - to cover costs related to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANDY DUGUE, also known as “Jimmy," 40, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 100 days of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: A doctor pled guilty for his participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Christian M. Domenech, 24, of West Warwick, pleaded guilty today to federal heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking charges and to bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division; and Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives passed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, on Wednesday, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Larry Joseph Fraley, age 58, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty on April 13, 2017 to Possession of Child Pornography. Chief United States District...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: This morning, Hatteras Island Rescue Squad responded to a report of what appears to be an old, unidentified military device on the sand bar off Cape Point. Dare County Emergency Management requested assistance from the U. S. Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit from Little Creek Virginia. Based...
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) delivered a statement today at a Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing entitled “The Tragic Case of Liu Xiaobo.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA - DeVonte Shyheem Green, 23, from Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty earlier this week before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Green remains in U.S. Marshal custody and will be sentenced after the U.S. Probation Office completes a presentence investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives passed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, on Wednesday, by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding localities like New York City ignoring the agency’s current authority over nutrition labeling, and instituting their own standards. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Cumberland and Williamsport, MD - The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park invites the public to join our park interpreters to discover the canal’s fascinating, and sometimes overlooked, stories and history. All programs are free and suitable for visitors of all ages.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Vickie L. Sanders, 56, and Kylee D. Black, 34, both of Olney, Illinois, were indicted on July 12, 2017, on methamphetamine related charges in a seven count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force announced that broadcasters have requested $2.1 billion - significantly more than the $1.75 billion set aside - to cover costs related to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Yusuf Abdirizak Wehelie, 26, of Burke, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the plea today by DASHAWN HAWKINS, a/k/a “Jhonny Cash," of New York, New York, to the sale of heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of Colin Cameron, 29, of Manhattan, on Sept. 2, 2016. HAWKINS pled guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods in Manhattan federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM COSME, a/k/a WILLIAM COSMO, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 111 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud a Christian missionary school in South Korea of $5.5 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: FOREST GROVE, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation will resume geologic investigations near Scoggins Dam the week of July 24. Reclamation crews will be working on both sides of the dam as well as downstream. Soil and rock samples will be collected from up to 50 sites to support ongoing analysis and design for Scoggins Dam seismic stability studies.
