News from June 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: When scientists need to identify an unknown compound, they do what a police detective might do. They get fingerprints-in this case, the “molecular fingerprints" of the unknown compound-and run them through a database of fingerprints from known suspects to look for a match.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SCOTT LIFF, 47, of East Williston, New York was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling guns in exchange for drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Rudolf Suter, 66, formerly of Dallas, appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of perjury in federal proceeding under oath. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Suitland, Maryland - On Tuesday, June 06, 2017 shortly after 10:30 pm, the United States Park Police responded for the report of a motor vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection with Branch Avenue.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Democrats on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure rejected President Trump’s plan to privatize our public airspace, and instead introduced, H.R. 2800, The Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2017, legislation to strengthen and reform the Federal Aviation Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles Wright, 37, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was convicted of heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Oved David Valenzuela-Ortega, who admitted trafficking a large quantity of methamphetamine, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 324 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that brothers BURNELL SCOTT, a/k/a “B.U.," and BURCHANTI SCOTT, a/k/a “Napp," were sentenced in Manhattan federal court today. BURCHANTI SCOTT was sentenced to 11 years in prison for distributing heroin, while...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Anthony Barth, 25, of Derry, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to two counts of distributing fentanyl and one count of possessing with intent to distribute 400 or more grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Deonte Spencer Ordered Held in Custody Pending Trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dane Robert Pollock, age 33, a resident of McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, for sexual exploitation of children involving the production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo announced a new “agreement in principle" for suspending antidumping and countervailing duties on Mexican sugar imported into the United States...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance four nominees to the Senate floor: David Bernhardt to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Dan Brouillette to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, met with Raúl Cervantes Andrade, Attorney General for Mexico, Alberto Elías Beltrán, Head of the Deputy Attorney General’s Office for Legal and International Affairs, and Beatriz Navarro Parada, Appointed Consul from the Mexican General Consulate in San Juan, US Attorney’s Office announced. The following joint statement was issued after the meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Four people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to mail heroin from California to the Warren area, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the City of Des Plaines to resolve allegations that the City violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied a rezoning application to allow The Society of American Bosnians and Herzegovinans (SABAH), a Bosnian Muslim religious organization, to use a vacant building as a mosque.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Christina Renee Caveny, 37, of Dallas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced two bills to promote fair union elections and restore important protections for workers and employers. The legislative proposals are the latest step in the committee’s ongoing efforts to rein in overreach by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during the Obama administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chinese businessman was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison for attempting to provide military equipment to a Peruvian terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Bridgeport, West Virginia man pled guilty today to mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
