News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: This month, three defendants pled guilty in the Southern District of Florida in connection with their participation in a $4.4 million dollar federal prison sentencing scheme. The fraudulent scheme targeted federal inmates and their families in Miami-Dade County and elsewhere by promising them assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, co-defendants Allen E. Peithman, Jr., Sharon A. Elder, and their corporations, Cornerstone Plaza, Inc., and AEP Properties, L.L.C., were each convicted of at least one crime after a three-week-long jury trial. Peithman...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) responded to the announcement that FirstNet will partner with AT&T to build a nationwide broadband network for first responders...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to override the scientific consensus of his own agency, which had recommended that the pesticide chlorpyrifos be permanently banned nationwide due to its highly toxic and harmful effects...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: The Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site is hosting “Find Your Park: Find Your Fun" on Saturday, May 6, 2017. (Rain date: Sunday, May 7). The day is designed to encourage the community to come and enjoy the park through special events that highlight unique aspects of this National Park. All of...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today voted on the nomination of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee favorably voted the nominee out of the Committee at a business meeting earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Eutimio Reyna-Ceron (a/k/a “Tony," a/k/a “Gordo," a/k/a “Little Tony") pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday to charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, distribution of heroin, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Brian J.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Earlier this afternoon, defendants Joseph Atias and Sofia Atias were convicted of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and Medicaid fraud by a jury in federal court in Central Islip. The fraud was designed to, and did, defraud Bank of America of over half a million dollars. The defendants face...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jason David Young, a/k/a Bird, J Bird, and Chris, age 33, of New Carrollton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to illegal possession of firearms and to enticing and coercing women to travel across state lines to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Defendant is One of 34 Individuals Charged as Part of Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: The Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site is hosting “Find Your Park: Find Your Fun" on Saturday, May 6, 2017. (Rain date: Sunday, May 7). The day is designed to encourage the community to come and enjoy the park through special events that highlight unique aspects of this National Park. All of...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to override the scientific consensus of his own agency, which had recommended that the pesticide chlorpyrifos be permanently banned nationwide due to its highly toxic and harmful effects...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas, Texas, man, Dequindrick Alexander, 22, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 184 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Senate passed H.J. Res 43, which would invalidate a final rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2016 that ensures patients can access family planning and preventative services through any Title X-qualified provider...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOHN PAUL PIERRE, age 29, of Kenner, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) responded to the announcement that FirstNet will partner with AT&T to build a nationwide broadband network for first responders...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: FBI Searches for Bandaged Bandit. The FBI and local law enforcement agencies are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating a serial bank robber dubbed the “Bandaged Bandit". This robber has hit at least three Chase Bank branches-all located inside Fred Meyer stores-in just about two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - On Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Mark Randall Jones, 52, of Los Angeles, California, was found guilty, after a three-day jury trial, of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dedham man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for armed bank robbery.
