News from May 2017
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of a resolution regarding the fight against Central American corruption (H.Res.145 ) on the House floor...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Juan Soliz (24, Pomona Park) and Kayla Soto (23, Pomona Park) for transporting two kilograms of cocaine from Texas to Florida. Soliz was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and Soto was sentenced to two years and six months...
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to serve as Special Counsel leading a Department of Justice investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on “Reviewing Recent State Successes with the Rigs to Reefs Program." The panel focused on the environmental benefits of maintaining decommissioned oil and gas platforms as marine habitat and ways to optimize the program's use and benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted 23 individuals, 22 of whom are Bay Area residents, for their respective roles in a conspiracy to engage in an extensive drug trafficking network, announced U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin and United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch. The indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Four Corporate Officers Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate Highway Safety Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Guarino Edwards Broccoli, a/k/a Gary Broccoli, a/k/a Gary Edwards (53, Fort White), with forced labor and aggravated sexual abuse. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - The Paducah Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) hosted EM officials from DOE headquarters and local representatives from a set of cleanup sites last week for the semiannual meeting of the EM Site-Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) Chairs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was charged in federal court in Worcester yesterday with illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Peter Diehl, 32, Superior, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 20 years in federal prison for two counts of possession of child pornography. Diehl pleaded guilty to these charges on February 7, 2017, and in doing so, also admitted to transporting a minor across state lines for illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - A New Orleans man was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. Corey Celestine, age 33, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Visitor Services Expanded for Summer 2017 at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Kimberly, Oregon - The Thomas Condon Paleontology Center in the Sheep Rock Unit of John Day Fossil Beds is currently open 10 am to 5 pm daily. The hours expand to 9 am to 5 pm Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: With high costs and skyrocketing premiums, Obamacare has been consistent in harming the American people and crushing middle class families.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: FARGO, N.D. - A former deputy U.S. Marshal based in central North Dakota was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - Manager Larry White, Sr. of Stop-n-Go Fish Market, Sikeston, MO, and his daughter Erica White, manager of Stop-N-Go Mini Mart store pled guilty to charges of misusing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the food stamp program. Each admitted with their pleas that they illegally redeemed up to $549,000 in SNAP benefits between December 2010 and March 2014 by exchanging SNAP benefits for cash and illegible items.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Public’s Help Requested in Search for Fugitive Santiago Mederos.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: An owner of a tax preparation business and his employee are charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent returns and claiming over $3,000,000 in fraudulent refunds.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ocracy. “The Kremlin attempted a coup in Montenegro, which fortunately failed. It is selling advanced weapons to Serbia, including MIG-29s and T-72 tanks. And it’s getting involved in Macedonia’s domestic politics, aiming to prevent a resolution to the governing crisis in Skopje. “So Hoyt, I’m glad...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - - Robert Ian Thatcher, 29, Maximillian Sams, 30, Dwayne Banks, 29, all of Elmira, New York, and Carlito Rios, Jr., 30, of Beaver Dams, New York, were each charged today with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, quantities of furanyl fentanyl and U-47700, both Schedule I controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: FBI Richmond Offering a Reward of up to $20,000.
