News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie sentenced the defendant Angelo Gigliotti to 20 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release following his conviction for conspiracy to import and possess cocaine. Judge Dearie had previously sentenced the defendant Angelo Gigliotti’s mother, Eleonora Gigliotti, on May 11, 2017, to 7 years in prison for her role in the importation scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Kenneth Frank Morehouse, 59, formerly CEO of Intermountain Gas, pleaded guilty on June 21, 2017, in United States District Court to unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, July 1, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host a special 45 minute program at Chickamauga Battlefield. This program, beginning at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, will explore the impact the 1831 slave insurrection, led by Nat...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The former CEO of Chase Power Development has been ordered to federal prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. John David Upchurch, 54, of Spring, pleaded guilty Jan. 6, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to examine the U.S. Department of Energy’s $28 billion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018, a $2.7 billion reduction from the current fiscal year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A paramedic pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to diverting fentanyl intended for patients for his own use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Kansas City, Mo., physician who lost his medical license due to an earlier fraud scheme, has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a fraud scheme that involved disability examinations of veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Investigation led to seizure of drugs with an approximate street value of over $2 million and forfeiture of $300,000 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - The government has forfeited a house in Elkins, West Virginia, that was used to facilitate a clandestine methamphetamine operation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement on the Senate Republican’s health care draft, released earlier today...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to remove the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the Endangered Species Act Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. Delisting the grizzly will transfer management of the bear to the state of Wyoming.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Vernal, Utah-In keeping with the Administration’s goals of American’s Energy independence and strengthening local communities, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vernal and Price Field Offices continue to support energy exploration efforts here in Utah. The BLM is seeking public comments on two separate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury today found former Hoboken, New Jersey, City Council President and attorney CHRISTOPHER CAMPOS guilty of bank and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. CAMPOS and his...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Defendants conspired to defraud the IRS of more than $450,000 in taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Leeland Eisenberg, of Concord, New Hampshire, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for bank robbery and separately sentenced to five years of probation for possessing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Anthony Joseph Cortinas, age 49, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced after previously having pled guilty on Feb. 21, 2017, to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after Senate Republicans released their draft of Trumpcare earlier today...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup...
