News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Misti Baker, 36, of West Rutland, Vermont, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford for healthcare fraud. Judge Crawford sentenced Baker to time served plus two years of supervised release and ordered her to pay $77,306.57 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two defendants pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Chelsea Fore, 25, of Charleston, entered her guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamine. In a separate prosecution, Everett Ray Gillespie, 66, of Bluefield, entered his guilty plea to distribution of hydromorphone.
By DOE 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 EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 11 a.m., House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will hold a press conference to discuss the American Health Care Act.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - In January, Dana Wilson was named the new Associate District Manager for the Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest District, based out of the Montrose Public Lands Center. The Southwest District includes about 2.6 million acres of BLM lands within the Grand Junction, Uncompahgre and Tres Rios Field Offices.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after House Republicans unveiled their legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 11 a.m., House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will hold a press conference to discuss the American Health Care Act.
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: California Clinic Owner Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Role in Occupational Therapy Fraud Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, applauded the passage of a resolution which would block implementation of the Obama administration’s flawed and burdensome “blacklisting" rule through the Congressional Review Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In three trials last week, federal juries convicted four Southern California men on charges of illegal weapons possession and gun trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A jury has convicted a Memphis man of possessing a firearm while a convicted felon and possessing a firearm while on school property. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Failed to disclose the death of her husband for eleven years.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s March 2017 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima Basin indicates a full water supply for senior water rights during the 2017 irrigation season but an estimated 96 percent water supply for junior (proratable) water rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Union City, Tennessee, business owner and contract supplier pled guilty today in United States District Court before Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Leavenworth man who bragged on the Internet about sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: MAR 06 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark Tasker, 49, of Dexter, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10 years in prison...
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: “Welcome to the first hearing of the Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee in the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Christopher Lee Holton, age 29, of West Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced Thursday, March 2, 2017, in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis, of Columbia, sentenced Holton to one year imprisonment to be followed by five years of Supervised Release.
