News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Telecom Executive Pleads Guilty to FCPA Charge in Connection With Haitian Bribery Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House Budget Committee introduced its Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution, which includes reconciliation instructions allowing the Ways and Means Committee to complete two separate and distinct tasks: (1) growing the economy through revenue-neutral tax reform and (2) identifying savings that move us toward a balanced budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A third defendant was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Ten Year Prison Sentence.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the implementation of his bill, the U.S.-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act, which because Public Law No: 114-291 at the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced that Johnny June Mason, Jr., age 48, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court before Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to a one-count indictment charging him with failing to register and update his registration as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced David Wayne Willmott, Jr. (25, Inverness) to three years in federal prison for making threats to use an explosive device. He pleaded guilty on April 18, 2017. This federal sentence will be served consecutively to the six-year sentence imposed in 2016 by the State of Florida for two arsons and a hoax bomb threat in Hernando County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two physicians at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Mo., have pleaded guilty in federal court, in separate cases, to engaging in a health care fraud scheme that totaled more than $190,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: On July 18, 2017, a Belleville man was charged in a one-count indictment with Theft of Mail by a postal employee, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Mark Vartanyan, also known as “Kolypto," was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Mark H. Cohen to serve five years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in connection with his role in developing, improving and maintaining the “Citadel" malware toolkit between 2012 and 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, the National Park Service located and then contacted the U.S. Navy regarding a potential World War II era unexploded ordnance that was found in a remote area on the southern end of Hatteras Island. Today, the U.S. Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit arrived on scene and used controlled detonation to render it safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY G. SCIARRA, 54, of Wethersfield, formerly of Marlborough, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an investment scheme that defrauded individuals and couples of more than $874,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: On July 18, 2017, two New York men were charged with Conspiracy to Counterfeit, and Passing Counterfeit United States currency, one of the men was also charged with making false statements, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: In Alpine today, a federal judge sentenced Javier Carlos Arteta Franco, a 59-year-old Venezuelan National and former elementary school teacher in Fort Stockton, to 160 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for receipt and possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Laredo federal judge has sentenced a 23-year-old Florida woman for smuggling liquid methamphetamine through the local port of entry, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Alyssa Lopez, 23, of Panama City, Florida, pleaded guilty June 6, 2016, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Dustin A. Fleming, 30, of DuQuoin, Illinois, who is employed as a correctional officer by the Illinois Department of Corrections, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an information charging him with depriving an inmate of his federal civil rights, announced Donald S. Boyce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Melson Jacques, a/k/a “Mike", 35, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon. Jacques pleaded guilty to the charge on March 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Floyd Wood, 49, of DeRuyter, New York, was sentenced in federal court today following his earlier plea of guilty to Attempted Coercion and Enticement, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for a shoreline stabilization project at Cayuse Cove on the Spokane Arm of Lake Roosevelt in Lincoln County, Wash.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Good morning. In October of last year, one of my constituents, Timm Kopp, a letter carrier from Wisconsin, came forward to my office with concerns about leave practices he was experiencing and witnessing related to the upcoming election. In response, I referred the matter to the Postal Service Inspector General and to the Office of Special Counsel.
