News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Two Mexican citizens arrested together in Saratoga Springs, New York, were sentenced today for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A former Audi manager has been charged via criminal complaint for his role in the long-running conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in thousands of Audi “clean diesel" vehicles.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, July 13, 2017, to consider the nomination of Kevin K. McAleenan to serve as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The hearing will take place at 10:15 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Rafael Tellez-Tijernia, 39, a citizen of Mexico residing in Houston, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court on charges involving his possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Court documents reflect ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Lucas Trading Company LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Ohio Insurance Salesman Sentenced to Prison for Failure to File Income Tax Returns and Failure to Pay Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Former Teller at Maryland Check Cashing Business Indicted for Conspiring to Defraud the United States and Stealing Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ronald Allen Meadows, 46, of Chillicothe, Ohio was sentenced to 120 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms, including machine guns, and dealing heroin from his house.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CRISTIAN CESRE-PAZ, age 32, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) & (b)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed a gun and ammunition and discharged the gun inside a Cedar Rapids apartment building was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Tampa- Acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the government has intervened in a lawsuit against a Florida compounding pharmacy owner, Renier Gobea (41, Tampa), and his company, RS Compounding LLC, located at 12617 Race Track Road (Tampa, FL), alleging that Gobea and RS Compounding billed TRICARE excessive prices for compounded prescriptions.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding President Trump’s comment that “nobody really knows" which countries were involved in the interference in last year’s election...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) today delivered the following opening statements at a joint hearing of the Social Security and Oversight Subcommittees on the Complexities and Challenges of Social Security Coverage and Payroll Tax Compliance for State and Local Governments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - The man whose celebratory New Year’s 2017 gunfire killed a five-year-old child in Athens, Ala., pleaded guilty today in federal court to illegally possessing the gun because he was in the United States illegally. Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge James Hernandez announced the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ROANOKE-A Danville, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to aiding in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle for the Western District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Former Audi Manager Charged in Connection With Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed a gun and ammunition and discharged the gun inside a Cedar Rapids apartment building was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy urging him to convene a hearing with Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter M. Shaub, Jr. about the need for stronger ethics regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center presents a temporary exhibit that features paintings by Native American students from Owyhee Combined School, located in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: “Good morning. Today our Committee is honored to welcome United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to testify on President Trump’s trade policy agenda. Ambassador Lighthizer, thank you for joining us. We look forward to your testimony.
