News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Crystal Medina Gomez, 50, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months of imprisonment for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Gomez will be on supervised release for three years after completing her prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a Secretarial Order to formally end the coal leasing moratorium and reinstate the royalty advisory committee. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Romanian Citizen Pleads Guilty in ATM Skimming Conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued the following statement after President Trump took executive action to commence a commission that will conduct a review of our federal policies regarding ways to combat the opioid epidemic and provide assistance to those suffering.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after Westinghouse announced this morning that they were filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Employee Allegedly Received Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Benefits from Two Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former clerk of the Orange County Superior Court pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal racketeering charges stemming from a scheme in which he accepted more than a quarter-million dollars in bribes to illegally resolve criminal cases and traffic offenses on terms favorable to hundreds of defendants without the knowledge of prosecutors or judges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Marc Christopher Harmon was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Rehoboth woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally collecting more than $29,000 in Social Security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fred Swan, Jr., 28, and Jessica Henton, 28, both of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint. Swan is charged with Hobbs Act Robbery, use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced José Luis Otero-Otero to 210 months (17 years and 6 months) in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of children, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Otero-Otero had plead guilty on November 4, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing on “Cleaning up Our Nation's Cold War Legacy Sites."
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today told the Chicago Council on Government Affairs that emergency food assistance, agriculture development, and trade are among many critical tools to improve global food security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Former Texas Congressman and Associate Indicted for Multi-Year Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -James L. Archer, Sr., age 52, of Au Sable Forks, New York, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former salesman at Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, was charged today with defrauding Bayway Lumber customers and knowingly making false statements before a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: James Horton, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today in a three-count Indictment accessing or attempting to access depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors, and receiving and distributing or attempting to receive or distribute child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former Atlantic County, New Jersey, man charged in connection with a scheme to smuggle misbranded drugs into the country and dispense drugs without a valid prescription will make his initial court appearance today, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to discuss the president’s recent budget proposal and its impact on U.S. foreign assistance. The hearing is entitled “The Budget, Diplomacy, and Development." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The Federal Highway Administration, the state of Georgia, local government organizations and employers are partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to sponsor one-hour events to train road workers on the dangers of distracted drivers, flying debris and other objects during National Highway Work Zone Awareness Week, April 3-7.
