News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Utah man was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with the murder of his wife onboard the cruise ship Emerald Princess in Southeast Alaska. At the time of the crime, the Emerald Princess was in U.S. Territorial Waters, subjecting the case to federal jurisdiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three local men are in custody on separate, but similar cases of soliciting a minor for sexual purposes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on PNC and Bank of America ATMs in New Jersey, pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing at least $428,581. The guilty pleas stem from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: A Marion man was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for robbing two banks in Marion last summer.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent letters to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Department of Interior (DOI) Inspector General’s office today requesting investigations into whether recent actions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men have been charged in a four-count indictment with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to do so, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Zoraida Velázquez-Bracero plead guilty to an information charging her with theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General was in charge of the investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved seven committee bills, one of which is H.R. 3387, the Drinking Water System Improvement Act. H.R. 3387 seeks to bring greater investment in the country’s aging drinking water infrastructure as well as facilitate compliance by our drinking water delivery systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Traveled to Seattle to Pick up Parts from Undercover Agent; Planned to Smuggle Parts into China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Everett man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for armed bank robbery and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gerardo Olivares, age 31, of Fort Smith, Arkansas was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Judge P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler announces that Eric A. Banks, a 25 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration followed by five years of supervised release for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 264,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 198,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year and 66,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after Congressional Republicans and the Administration released a joint statement on tax reform...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent letters to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Department of Interior (DOI) Inspector General’s office today requesting investigations into whether recent actions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury found two Mexican nationals guilty today of murder of a federal officer, attempted murder of a federal officer, and related offenses in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila on Feb. 15, 2011, in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM T. WALTERS, a/k/a “Billy," was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to commit insider trading from at least 2008 through 2014, principally relating to securities of Dean Foods Company (“Dean Foods" or the “Company").
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Davisville, West Virginia woman was sentenced today to 51 months incarceration for bank robberies spanning three states, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s call for an investigation into whistleblower complaints about the contractor working on construction of a new clinic building and medical rehabilitation facility on the Jefferson Barracks campus of the VA St. Louis Health Care System, the VA’s Inspector...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Eric W. Sporre Named Special Agent in Charge of Tampa Field Office.
