News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea produce distributor was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston after pleading guilty to filing fraudulent documents in federal court and then committing perjury in an attempt to conceal his crime.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, a case about the level of educational benefit school districts must provide students with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Glenn R. Fischer, age 70, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 21, 2017, to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to defraud businesses seeking insurance. Fischer admitted that he fraudulently collected more than $4.4 million in insurance premiums which he did not remit to an insurance company, causing losses in that amount to the victims who thought they were insured.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Mrugesh G. Patel (38, Edgewater) to 18 months in federal prison for bank fraud. The Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $405,087.99, the proceeds of the offense. Patel pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Dr. Anthony Conrardy, age 61, and Dr. William McCutchen, III, age 46, were found guilty yesterday of unlawfully distributing Schedule II narcotics by a federal jury in Detroit, MI, acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today. Dr. Anthony Conrardy was convicted of five counts of unlawfully distributing Oxycodone and Dilaudid, and Dr. William McCutchen, III was convicted of four counts of unlawfully distributing Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRANDON RAY PARKER, age 41, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Harold Jones, 23, of Utica, New York, was sentenced today to serve thirty (30) months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge Ashan M. Benedict of the New York Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed California State Parks Accessibility Improvements Project at Millerton Lake State Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Pamela Bullington, age 28, of Cowpens, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641. United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks of Charleston sentenced Bullington to probation and to pay restitution of $12,552.50.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: hers. And there is all kind of insults from a train and other things, giving propaganda against Kosovo by Serbia, pushed to the Serbian-Kosovo border that helps to escalate tensions rather than bring them down.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that AMBER RENE CLAPHAN, age 34, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man charged last month with sex trafficking a minor was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional charges.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined the committee’s Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) in reintroducing the “Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act" to impose sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad regime, encourage negotiations to end ongoing atrocities,...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the 2017
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a half-day conference addressing gun violence in Indian country will be held in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on Thursday April 6, 2017. The event will be held in conjunction with National Crime Victim’s Rights Week and is hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Tiffany Shaffer, 27, entered her guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Following a two-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, a federal jury has convicted two Fort Worth men on felony drug offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault pled guilty and was sentenced on March 15, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
