News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rudolph Dwight Hanchard, 39, a Jamaican national living in Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and attempt to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nomination of Seema Verma to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator. Following the vote, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OSCAR OMAR CAMPOS-ROJAS, age 27, a native of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Thomas W. Almberg, 50, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for charges of coercing and enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activity. Almberg was also sentenced to 25 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 50-year-old Avery, Texas man has been convicted by a jury following a violent crime spree in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thursday on the Senate floor, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) encouraged his colleagues to repeal the blacklisting rule. Johnson introduced the Senate version of the resolution, which can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Richard Duane Johns, 49, of Little Rock pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone without an effective prescription. John, a former doctor, was responsible for illegally distributing at least 39,000 pills, with a street value of more than $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Salih Zeki Uces (39) guilty of international parental kidnapping. Uces, a dual Turkish/United States citizen, faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 5, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: The FY2017 Defense Appropriations bill keeps faith with the Budget Control Act defense spending cap, and does not include expected requests for increases in defense funding. Unlike the House-passed version from June 2016, it does not include an OCO-to-base transfer, which would have created a funding shortfall for troops serving in harm’s way. It does include extra OCO funding to pay for a 2.1% pay raise included in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Howard Dillon, age 49, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, pled guilty on Monday in federal court in Florence, to Conspiracy to Manufacture and Pass Counterfeit Securities, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Willis Terrance Dorsey, age 30, of Marion, pled guilty on Monday in federal court in Florence, to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Darius Crenshaw, 30, of Newport News, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for various violent crimes he committed he was a high-ranking member of the Black P-Stones gang in Newport News.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Twenty-three individuals, most from the Dallas, Texas, area, were charged in a federal indictment with offenses stemming from their respective roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy this week, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Indictment Includes Charges Related to 2006 Murder of Austin Man and 4 New Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for using a telephone in the commission of a murder-for-hire scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Alden Leeds, Inc., a New Jersey swimming pool and spa chemicals company, and its president, Mark Epstein, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for convictions related to customs and import violations. The case was unsealed today. Epstein was sentenced to serve eight months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Garcia, 22, of New York, was sentenced to nine months incarceration for possessing multiple counterfeit credit and debit cards, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) issued a detailed district-by-district staff report summarizing the progress made under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the potential negative impacts of repealing the law in all 435 congressional districts and the District of Columbia.
