News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Tony Eugene Lyon, 52, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to serve 120 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in November 2016 to a felony offense stemming from a $5 million dollar cattle scheme he orchestrated, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Christopher Hayes, 49, of Middletown, R.I., a former Newport, R.I., Police Department Sergeant and former President of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Newport Lodge No. 8, made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence today on an information charging him with wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An East Boston woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for fraudulently obtaining over $50,000 in Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, April 8, 2017 from 1 pm to 5 pm, experience a Historic Bread and Baked Goods Sale sponsored by the Harpers Ferry Park Association. The public is invited to purchase (first-come, first-served) fresh baked sour dough, leaven rolls or street corner food, and large soft pretzels-just to name a few! All will be baked in a large masonry “bee hive oven" near the historic Roeder’s Tavern. All proceeds directly benefit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: On March 2, 2017 Guilford Courthouse NMP turned 100 years old, and we still have the Centennial fever! The park was created in 1887 by the Guilford Battleground Company, and was the first Revolutionary War battlefield designated by Congress as a National Park in 1917. We began our Centennial commemoration...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - James P. Cheatham III, a former federal corrections officer, has been charged with accepting bribes to introduce contraband into the federal correctional facility in Yazoo County, Mississippi, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain, Special Agent in Charge Robert Bourbon of the DOJ OIG’s Miami Field Office, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Christopher Clough, 43, of Dover, New Hampshire, was arrested today on charges that he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after the State Department approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: A man responsible for distributing pounds of ice methamphetamine and sending the proceeds back to Mexico was convicted by a jury on March 23, 2017, after a two-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of State approved the cross-border permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of TrumpCare, the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Speaker Ryan abruptly ended consideration of TrumpCare in the U.S. House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Panamanian businessman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy involving the importation of 22 kilograms of cocaine onboard a commercial shipping vessel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possesion of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on March 21, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Defendant Underreported His Company’s Gross Receipts by More than $4.6 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL GOTTA, 58, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to nine months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for explosives and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dean Volkes, 53, and Donna Fallon, 52, of Long Island, NY, and Devos Ltd., doing business as Guaranteed Returns, located in Long Island, were convicted Wednesday on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, theft of government property, money laundering conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux City, Iowa, man convicted of Attempted Illicit Sexual Conduct with a Minor was sentenced on March 20, 2017 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer and Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen attorney and a Methuen loan officer pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with a sweeping conspiracy to defraud banks and mortgage companies by engaging in sham “short" sales of residential properties in Merrimack Valley. Separately, a Methuen real estate broker was arrested on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, on related charges, and a Dunstable attorney was sentenced after pleading guilty to participating in the same conspiracy.
