News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 30-year-old Emmanuel Velasco Gurrola was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) met with Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the United States, to discuss counter-extremism efforts and other important national security issues following yesterday’s terror attack in London.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the Senate’s passage of a resolution of disapproval from Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that will roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the owner of two northwest Alabama pharmacies to six month’s home confinement for obstructing a Medicare audit, ordered him to pay a $2.5 million fine and prohibited him from working in a pharmacy during his year on probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Members of a Chicago street gang and a Mexican supplier are among eleven individuals charged for their alleged roles in the distribution of heroin and cocaine on the city’s West Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Joel Lee Quentin Scott, 22, of Philadelphia, PA, and Jonathan Maurice Scott, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, were charged today by indictment with armed bank robbery and a related firearm charge announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Dec. 29, 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that William L. Dodson, age 43, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel of Charleston sentenced Dodson to fifteen years imprisonment, to be followed by two years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that AARON GYAMBIBI, also known as “E," 26, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rainier Ramos, age 50, of Bel Air, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to bribery in connection with his duties at the U.S. Army Public Health Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed a broadband privacy CRA. Chairman Blackburn has introduced an identical privacy CRA in the House.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the hearing to consider the nomination of George "Sonny" Perdue to be Secretary of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, Chairman Devin Nunes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told reporters that, “on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition." Chairman Nunes then traveled to the White House to ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the Senate’s passage of a resolution of disapproval from Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that will roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee today approved the bipartisan Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act (H.R. 1695 ) by a vote of 27-1.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury has indicted a Memphis man for committing bank fraud against financial institutions in the Memphis area. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Miami-Based Physician Charged for Role in Pain Pill Diversion and Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Indictment alleges that defendant attempted to steal drugs from houses in 2015 and 2016; Two victims killed and a third shot during home invasion on June 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Frances Jo Mehner, 71, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a 207-day term of imprisonment, which she has already served, followed by a year of supervised release for filing a false claim for a federal tax refund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Barry David Bassett, age 41, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g). United...
