News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Angelica Moreno Velasquez, 32, of Fresno, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 15 months in prison for conspiracy to produce, transfer, possess, and sell false identification documents, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Moreno Velasquez was remanded into custody today after the sentence was imposed.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a full committee markup on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider legislation that modernizes our energy infrastructure, environmental laws and enhances our energy security.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced a letter to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Keith Hall, asking the agency to examine and make public an analysis of the Senate Republican health bill’s Medicaid cuts beyond the 10 year budget window. This analysis is needed because the legislation’s most draconian cuts set in starting in 2025, the last two years of the ten year CBO budget window.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Joseph A. Martin, 54, of Warren, Maine, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to three days imprisonment and a $1,000 fine for taking a federally-protected marine mammal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ricardo Garcia-Solis, 29, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, made his initial appearance this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Garcia-Solis remains in federal custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for tomorrow.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Democratic Leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Government Reform committees, sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), raising concerns about FCC’s cybersecurity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Mark A. Tincher, age 59, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, was sentenced on June 26, 2017, by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp to five years of supervised release, a fine of $50,000, and ordered to pay restitution of $833,404.65 to Plattsmouth State Bank. Tincher had previously pled guilty to one count of bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - A Hawaii woman pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court Monday following her arrest for her role in a scheme to defraud American Savings Bank that involved filing multiple false tax returns.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Democratic Leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Government Reform committees, sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), raising concerns about FCC’s cybersecurity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that today Michael Younge, 27, formerly of Framingham and Boston, Massachusetts was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison for his role in an illegal effort to purchase two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center are among four persons charged in a bribery scheme to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tammy A. Grumme, age 42, of Glenmont, New York, was sentenced today to time served (about 4 months in jail), to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for stealing more than $78,000 in benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) delivered remarks on the House floor ahead of the Republic of Korea’s President Moon Jae-in’s visit to the United States. Below are the video and transcript of Chairman Royce’s remarks.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score on the impacts of the Senate Trumpcare bill...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a score of the Senate Republicans’ health care bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Friday June 23, 2017, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Alfred Musa, a/k/a “Gucci," age 29, of Bladensburg, Maryland to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit access device fraud, identification document fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Judge Russell also ordered Musa to pay $109,297.04 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAJBAR LAJAWARD KHAN, a/k/a “Haji Lajaward," and AMAL SAID SAID ALAM SHAH, a/k/a “Haji Zar Mohammad," pled guilty to conspiring to import heroin into the United States, and to distributing heroin intending...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Democratic Leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Government Reform committees, sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), raising concerns about FCC’s cybersecurity...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions begin June 27 in Garfield County for unincorporated private lands and Bureau of Land Management-administered lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Prehistoric Tübatulabal Native American Archaeological Site in the Domeland Wilderness Area in Tulare County.
