News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Antonio Cortez Harris, age 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Theresa Springmann to possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lacreek District Vice-Chair has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Former Employee of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Afghanistan Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Approximately $320,000 in Bribes From Contractors.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - A Phoenix-area technology company has become the latest Arizona employer to join a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program designed to strengthen hiring practices and reduce unauthorized employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted robbing a bank in Bergen County, New Jersey, in January 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: On Thursday, July 27 at 10:00 a.m., Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and a bipartisan group of members will hold a press conference with local business operators to discuss a legislative solution to the job-crushing joint employer scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3178, the Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Taylor Huddleston, 26, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty today to charges of aiding and abetting computer intrusions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Moses Wilcox to three years and four months’ imprisonment for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme. The Court also entered a money judgment for $129,854.17, the amount of fraudulent income tax refunds that Wilcox had received directly into a bank account in his name.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - Four of the six individuals responsible for a crime spree in Albemarle and Greene counties last summer that included a series of armed robberies, kidnappings, an armed home invasion, and a carjacking were sentenced today in federal court in Charlottesville, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - An El Salvador man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a reentry of a removed alien charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing to discuss the agency’s effort to facilitate broadband deployment and streamline regulations to better reflect the realities of the internet age. FCC Chairman Pai and Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael O’Rielly joined the subcommittee to provide an update on the agency’s work over the course of the last several months.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: As part of President Trump’s goal to reduce the burden of Federal regulations that hinder economic growth and energy development, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced in the Federal Register a proposal to rescind the 2015 final rule on hydraulic fracturing-a rule that was never in effect due to pending litigation. The proposal includes the opportunity for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSEPH SUDIK, 62, of North Franklin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to three months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing to discuss the agency’s effort to facilitate broadband deployment and streamline regulations to better reflect the realities of the internet age. FCC Chairman Pai and Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael O’Rielly joined the subcommittee to provide an update on the agency’s work over the course of the last several months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the sentencing of four defendants convicted of gang-related offenses in February of 2017 following the 39ers racketeering and murder trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight and Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to committee leaders to express the need to expand the list of witnesses for the full committee hearing on the Federal Communications Commission’s...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a full committee markup on Thursday, July 27, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider legislation that will protect consumers on roadways, modernize the nation’s drinking water infrastructure, and advance public health.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Yesterday afternoon, in federal court in East St. Louis, IL, Mark A. McFarland, 58, of Springfield, IL, was sentenced to one year in prison for his convictions on two counts of bankruptcy fraud, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. McFarland was indicted on Feb. 2, 2016, as part of the U.S. Attorney’s effort to crackdown on those who commit fraud in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
