News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Volodymyr Nedoviz, a lawful permanent resident of the United States and citizen of Ukraine, was arrested on federal charges of illegally exporting controlled military technology from the United States to end-users in Ukraine. Federal agents also executed a search warrant at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania location that was used in connection with Nedoviz’s illegal scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eight individuals have been charged with federal mail fraud as a result of an investigation in three North Central West Virginia counties, according to Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met today with the nominee for Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Elaine C. Duke.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.- As House Republicans pursue a rushed and secretive strategy to repeal the Affordable Care Act, top Democrats on the House Committee on Natural Resources today called on Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) to hold a full Committee hearing on the effects that an Affordable Care Act repeal would...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Dear Chairman Hatch: On March 1, 2017, Senator Stabenow and several members of the Finance Committee sent a letter urging you to request President Trump’s tax returns for review by both Republicans and Democrats on the Committee in closed executive session. Your negative response to our letter, in light...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ZTE Corporation has agreed to enter a guilty plea and to pay a $430,488,798 penalty to the U.S. for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by illegally shipping U.S.-origin items to Iran, obstructing justice and making a material false statement. ZTE simultaneously...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered the following floor speech on House Republican legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and rip apart the health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Got Into Cabs at Union Station, Then Robbed Drivers in Northeast Washington.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: MARCH 7, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau today released the for January 2017. This report includes data for the goods and services trade balance showing three-year highs for exports and imports. January exports of goods and services were $192.1 billion, the highest since December 2014 when they were $197.5 billion. January imports of goods and services were $240.6 billion, the highest since December 2014 when they were $241.2 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Murietta man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, an offense he committed while on probation after being convicted of similar conduct in a state case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A 28-year-old woman arrested early this morning at Los Angeles International Airport has been charged with trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of cocaine to her hometown of Detroit. Kennsha Mason, 28, was arrested by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration after boarding a Spirit Airlines flight. Mason is scheduled to make her first court appearance this afternoon in United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Robert F. Spoerl (age 69), a resident of Campbellsport, Wisconsin, was charged in a 28-count indictment. The indictment charges Spoerl, who operated a tax return preparation business in Kewaskum, Wisconsin...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opened the nomination period for Round 17 project proposals funded under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA.) The nomination period closes May 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Theodore Hines, 32, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A jury has convicted a Memphis man of illegally possessing a firearm. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: David Gotterup Admitted to Causing More Than $3.5 Million in Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ZTE Corporation Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $430.4 Million for Violating U.S. Sanctions by Sending U.S.-Origin Items to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced that its National Response Team (NRT) has joined the investigation into the church and apartment fires on Summit Avenue in Union City, N.J., that resulted in one fatality and severely damaged the Saints Joseph and Michael Parish and two apartment complexes March 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that N. AARON TROODLER, the former Executive Director of the Ramapo Local Development Corporation (“RLDC"), pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel to conspiring with Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher...
