News from March 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted Chairman Rob Bishop’s (R-Utah) $50 million budget demand, in the formal Republican “views and estimates" on the fiscal year 2018 budget, to make up for lost revenue from his plan to give away federal land. Bishop’s demand marks the latest in a string of efforts to get others to take responsibility for the costs and likely legal struggles of his anti-public lands campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Jesse J. Wohlrabe (age: 30) of Appleton, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Fox Valley.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s new refugee and Muslim ban...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Syracuse-Hancock International Airport (SYR) prevented a Wayne County, New York, man from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane last week, March 2, when they found the gun tucked in the man’s jacket pocket.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Prosecution led to convictions of 10 defendants and seizures of significant amounts of drugs, cash, and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - A 57-year-old Mineral Wells, Texas, man, Jimmy Gordon, who pleaded guilty in June 2016 to one count of production of child pornography, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 360 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Indictment Includes Allegations of Conspiracy, Armed Robbery, and Possession of Firearms by a Felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Department for Health and Human Services released a proposed regulation to stabilize the Obamacare marketplace...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Skimmed Cash and Evaded Reporting Nearly $4 Million in Sales.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Today the Bureau of Land Management released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a proposed open-pit gold mine 30 miles northwest of Eureka, Nevada, which could create 120 new jobs in the area.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A man was cited on state weapons charges after he was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Richmond International Airport (RIC) checkpoint last Thursday, March 2, when TSA officers detected a 9 mm handgun among the man’s carry-on items.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A former Colombian National Army battalion commander was arrested Feb. 28 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a sports memorabilia company admitted in federal court today that he conducted a fraud scheme using forged documents and phony sports memorabilia, including a doctored Heisman Trophy and fake baseball cards that he used as collateral on loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare through a budget process known as reconciliation. The legislation, part of House Republicans’ American Health Care Act, delivers relief from Obamacare’s taxes and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 6, 2017, Fitzroy Turner, 35, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 127 months in federal prison following a conviction for his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine base “crack" in the Eastern District of Tennessee. Following his prison sentence, he will also serve a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 40-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to prison following his conviction for assaulting a United States Border Patrol (BP) agent and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in Laredo convicted Jorge Rocha after only 20 minutes of deliberation on July 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - On Friday, March 3, 2017, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Pablo Erick Quincosa-Cabrera, 42, of Dallas, Texas, to 210 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2016, to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 6, 2017, Kenneth L Miller, 37, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 36 months in federal prison for embezzlement of funds and tax evasion. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A New Jersey man, who conspired with others to distribute heroin in and around the Western District of Virginia, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
