News from July 2017
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of William Hagerty to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan. The Senate voted 86 to12 in favor of the nomination. In advance of the vote, Corker delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor urging members to vote for Hagerty’s confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Seven young adults from across the country are at Gettysburg to take on project “Restore Battlefield Landscapes at Gettysburg National Military Park" thanks to a cooperative agreement between American Conservation Experience (ACE) and the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for selling fentanyl that caused a fatal overdose, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARRYL LEWIS, a/k/a “Uncle Tom," a/k/a “Poppa Tom," age 63, and DEMOINDE ROWLEY, a/k/a “Chuck," age 40, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested and charged yesterday in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Atlantic County, New Jersey, men were each given multi-year prison sentences for their participation in a nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of Tufts Health Plan was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing the identifying information of over 8,000 Medicare customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Mauricio Portes, age 49, of East Chicago, Indiana was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine after a three-day jury trial before United States District Court Philip P. Simon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRADFORD BARNEYS, 51, of Odenton, Maryland, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervise release, for conspiring with Timothy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) challenged the Republican majority’s decision not to invite any Native American witnesses to today’s 10:00 a.m. hearing on the federal tribal recognition process, where attorney Don Mitchell will testify at Republicans’ behest despite tribal observers previously comparing him to the Ku Klux Klan. Mitchell referred sarcastically to “Alaska ‘tribes’" in a July 2016 Alaska Daily News op-ed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday charged two sales representatives for a Haleyville, Ala.,-based compounding pharmacy for participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan Tran, 27, of Milpitas, Calif., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from an incident earlier this year in which he illegally entered the grounds of the White House, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Brian J. Ebert, Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office, U.S. Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) reintroduced the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2017 (VRAA), which would fully restore and modernize the original Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 to reflect today’s societal needs and challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Keith Bollinger, 45, of McClure, was indicted for receipt and distribution of child pornography, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: JULY 13, 2017 - Minority-owned employer firms in the United States increased by approximately 4.9 percent in 2015 to 996,248 from 949,318 in 2014, according to findings from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Owens, a physician licensed to practice in California, was indicted on Tuesday with unlawfully prescribing oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The indictment alleges that between September...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Appropriations Democrats today introduced an amendment to the 2018 Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill to prohibit use of funds to “obstruct, hinder, frustrate, impede, or prevent any investigative work" conducted by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Honeywell employee was sentenced in federal court today for engaging in a fraud scheme that caused a loss of more than $50,000.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing today to discuss the effectiveness of federal early childhood program, and how states are making increased investments in their own programs.
