News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges including conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, possession with intent to distribute and distribute Oxycodone, obtaining a controlled substance through fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A legal permanent resident from Cuba who resided in Mission has been sentenced to federal prison for impersonating an officer of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Eugene Agustin Munoz-Canellas, 55, pleaded guilty Nov. 16, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following joint statement tonight after Congressional Republicans proposed their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and noticed the two committees will mark up the bill beginning Wednesday morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Ky., residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Boston - A Cape Cod man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with running a large-scale marijuana operation and then laundering the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Luis D. Capo-Nieves pleaded guilty on March 1, 2017, to a federal charge of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute. Capo-Nieves is 33 years old and lives in Manchester.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former city clerk for the city of Bennington, Kan., was sentenced Monday to a total of 16 months in federal prison in two separate cases of interstate transportation of embezzled funds, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. She also was ordered to pay $184,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced former Howard County youth gymnastics coach Paul Daniel Bollinger, age 57, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, on March 3, 2017, to six years in prison, followed by twelve years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Bollinger worked as a youth gymnastics coach in Maryland for over 30 years prior to his arrest in this case.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A family doctor practicing in Bergen County, New Jersey, was convicted today of all 10 counts of an indictment charging him with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Senators Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon in calling for the Department of Energy to strengthen whistleblower protections by reinstating rules that target...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Thomas E. Delahanty II, United States Attorney for the District of Maine, is pleased to announce the “Youth Voices on the Opiate Crisis Media Contest.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CURTIS WESLEY THOMAS, SR., 37, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve the statutory maximum of 96 months in federal prison for assaulting a postal carrier, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced two resolutions, S.J.Res. 32 and S.J.Res. 33, to undo regulations imposed by the Obama Administration that encourage states to place retirement mandates on employers and small business job creators. The regulations,...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today requested that the Department of Justice conduct an internal investigation into the ability of the Drug Enforcement Agency to hold major drug distributors accountable for opioid diversion-as new data indicates that more Americans die annually from opioid abuse than gun violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Public Tips About Top Ten Fugitive Eduardo Ravelo on the Anniversary of the Consulate Murders.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today Senate Democrats took to the Senate floor to speak out against the Republican-led vote to eliminate the ‘Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" rule. Senate Democrats unanimously voted against overturning the “fair pay" rule-the final vote was: 49-48.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Sandy Lee Parks, age 61, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 156 months’ imprisonment for six bank robberies in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Andre Mitchell Brown and Javier Raymond Jenkins were charged with conspiracy and armed bank robbery announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Brown also was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and with use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
