News from July 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: JULY 6, 2017 - Today the U.S. Census Bureau released a new report on the Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Fluctuations in the U.S. Income Distribution: 2009-2012 that highlights changes in annual household income by selected demographic characteristics of the householder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS - - James Shroba, Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s St. Louis Division announced today that DEA and the Kansas Highway Patrol worked together to successfully indict a Californian man for possession with intent to distribute approximately 60 pounds of fentanyl.
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 Fresh Growers Direct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: DENVER -- Bob Troyer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, today announced that AtLast Holdings, Inc. has paid $1,950,000 to settle allegations that the corporation and its parent company Newgistics, Inc. failed to pay proper postage to the United States Postal Service (USPS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport today found JAMES C. DUCKETT JR., 45, guilty of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from a scheme involving the redevelopment of Hartford’s Dillon Stadium and a plan to bring a professional soccer team to the city. The trial before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill began on June 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On July 6, 2017, Jonathan Leroy Homedewheather Jean Reekr, age 43, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 360 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Homedew will be required to serve a ten-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A man alleged to have made false statements during his application to join the U.S. Army and Air Force was arrested today on charges he hid information from recruiters about his foreign travel and prior arrest in the Kingdom of Jordan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Nakai, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Rock, Ariz., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed bipartisan legislation - introduced by Ways and Means Committee Members Tom Rice (R-SC) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) - to help strengthen our nation’s energy independence and national security by improving the operation of the Nuclear Production Tax Credit (H.R. 1551 ).
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 DELTOINE SCOTT, age 24, and JEROME KIEFFER, age 24, both of New Orleans, were indicted today by a federal grand jury for charges of attempted bank robbery resulting in death, using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence that resulted in death, and making false statements to a federal agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Virginia Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns for Clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 42-year-old former resident of Goliad has admitted to posing as a nurse, announced acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Leticia Gallarzo pleaded guilty to five counts of making false statements relating to health care today in federal court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the House passed five bipartisan bills to improve our nation’s child welfare system...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: BOISE - John Matthew Caviness, Jr., 35, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for his role in helping to distribute methamphetamine and other drugs throughout the Treasure Valley, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Caviness and ten others were indicted on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Aaron Travis Daniels, 20, aka Harun Muhammad, aka Abu Yusef of Columbus pled guilty in U.S. District Court to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339B. Daniels faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new state-by-state analysis today on what is at risk if the Prevention and Public Health Fund is eliminated under the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Opportunities in Global and Local Markets, Specialty Crops, and Organics: Perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill."
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the Federal Aviation Administration will award $230 million in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants for 104 airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 30, 2017, a jury found Trulunda Stenson (age: 35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, guilty following a trial before United States District Judge Pamela Pepper in federal court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The...
