News from July 2017
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released on the following statement on the Senate failing to pass Republicans’ disastrous Trumpcare bill last night.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On July 25, 2017, Patrick Paul Charley, 39, of Ajo, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to concurrent terms of imprisonment for sexual offenses committed against two adult members of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Charley had previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago trader was sentenced today to more than five and a half years in federal prison for defrauding clients out of more than $1.7 million by pocketing their money instead of investing it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -The sole proprietor of two companies that purportedly provided printing and digital marketing services to the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for defrauding the agency, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Peter Farnum, age 41, of Ballston Lake, New York, appeared today in federal court on charges that he received and possessed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A federal jury in Syracuse voted today to convict Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena, both of Los Angeles, on drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to their operation of a nationwide synthetic drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: A federal jury convicted William Steele, a member of the Detroit branch of the Rollin’ 60s Crips street gang, of RICO conspiracy and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. This verdict, which was announced yesterday, wrapped up a trial that began July 12, 2017. During the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 114 months in prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a weapon, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted H.R. 2083, a featured part of this morning’s 21-bill markup, as a clear example of the intellectual bankruptcy of Republican environmental policies in the modern era. Rather than addressing the undisputed central role outdated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on July 25, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Marcus Dotson, 28, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for illegal possession of ammunition. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Samuel Pratt, a/k/a “Promise," age 35, of Gastonia, North Carolina was sentenced to life in federal prison and his mother, Daphne Pratt, age 53, of Gastonia, North Carolina was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison. Samuel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Monday, July 24, 2017, Terry Terrell Clipper, age 27, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland was sentenced to nine years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm. On Thursday, July 20, 2017, Andre Denan Sanders, age 28, of Upper Marlboro, and Clipper’s cousin, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Charity Eleda, R.N., 56, of Rowlett, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas on a health care fraud conspiracy conviction, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, July 26, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Jose Alfredo Morales, 34, of Albany, Oregon, to 24 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Morales, who managed GNA Supplies, a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer (FFL) in Albany, Oregon, previously pleaded guilty on May 17, 2017 to one count of unlawful possession of a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed a loaded handgun, a digital scale, and marijuana in December 2016, was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today gave the following statement during the hearing of H.R. 391, the “The Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act."
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Today on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily" with Chuck Todd, Chairman Royce urged the Senate to quickly pass the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (H.R. 3364), which the House passed yesterday by a vote of 419-3. Below are the video and key excerpts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Honduran national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - -Three Dubuque, Iowa, men have been sentenced for their part in distributing heroin and fentanyl that killed a Dubuque, Iowa, man in 2016. Darin Thimmesch, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Omaha District Office, announced the sentencing today.
