News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Michael Watkins 35, of Pawtucket, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for operating a large-scale marijuana growing operation inside a former mill building in Providence in August 2015, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Exxon announced yesterday their plan to invest billions of dollars in Gulf Coast projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Lenny Baldwin Jr. Admits to Using the Internet to Entice Minors, Will Serve 10 Years.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Exxon announced yesterday their plan to invest billions of dollars in Gulf Coast projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Ordered to pay $400,000 restitution. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owners of AP Deli Corporation were sentenced in United States District Court yesterday, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to twelve months and one day in prison and ordered to pay $400,000 restitution for defrauding a program administered...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS - Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, pled guilty today to eight counts of armed bank robbery. Emeaghara is the armed robber dubbed as the “Buckeye Bandit" by law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Nevada Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Queens Man Sought to Export Controlled Rifle Scopes and Thermal Imaging Equipment Designed for Military Use.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following statement in response to the introduction of a resolution of disapproval by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for robbing Arvest Bank, after which he had his hair and beard shaved off at a nearby barber shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: FBI, the Allegheny County Police and Plum Boro Police Department Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Verona Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Lombardo, 25, of Lancaster, NY, who was convicted of possession and receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 188 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following statement in response to the introduction of a resolution of disapproval by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark Tasker, 49, of Dexter, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and oxycodone and maintaining a drug involved premise. He pleaded guilty on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: The former Chief Financial Officer of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas (Cay Clubs) was convicted Friday evening by a federal jury of conspiracy, bank fraud, and tax offenses. The jury verdict was returned after a two-week trial before Chief U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Filipino woman who fled from Japan to the Philippines before being arrested in Overland Park, Kan., was charged in federal court today with stealing the equivalent of nearly $100,000 at a Naval base in Japan.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) today praised President Trump for signing into law a resolution (H.J. Res. 40 ) that ends an Obama-era regulation that discriminates against certain Social Security beneficiaries who need help managing their benefits.
