News from May 2017
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: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge’s EM program and contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge have prevented more than 1,000 pounds of mercury from entering the environment at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A hazardous waste company, its owner, and two employees were indicted today for illegally abandoning more than 10,000 gallons of liquid hazardous waste and more than five tons of solid hazardous waste in trailers on the company’s property in Charlotte, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dennis K. Rawlins, 68, of Jackson, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexually exploiting a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced that Lamont Hawkins, 21, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for bank robbery.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A redesigned facility component operated successfully during recent testing, representing a key step in the commissioning of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at EM’s Idaho Site.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight the House of Representatives passed the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act (H.R.1677). The bipartisan bill, introduced by Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), seeks to impose sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad regime, encourage negotiations to end ongoing atrocities, and support prosecution of war criminals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Michael Davis, 32, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment in the United States District Court, Benton, for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Bureau of Reclamation's Great Plains Regional Director, Michael J. Ryan, has announced Reclamation's decision for Lower Brule Sioux Tribe to reimburse $54,190 of the more than $1.4 million identified as questionable costs. This decisions follows the Office of Inspector General (OIG) ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) on Wednesday spoke at a press conference on the urgent need for tax reform that will create jobs, increase paychecks, and grow America’s economy. Chairman Brady’s remarks come in advance of the Ways and Means Committee’s major hearing on tax reform this week, which will focus on fixing our nation’s broken tax code for America’s workers, families, and job creators.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Rio Bravo man has been ordered to federal prison after he led police on a high-speed chase in a vehicle loaded with several illegal aliens before crashing into another vehicle and causing serious injuries to several Laredo residents, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez and Special...
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in federal prison after he led police on a high-speed chase in a smuggling vehicle with illegal aliens before crashing into another vehicle and causing serious injuries to several Laredo residents.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - An Indian national who was briefly in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Atlanta City Detention Center for two days died Tuesday afternoon at an Atlanta hospital. Atulkumar Babubhai Patel, 58, was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital at 1:20 p.m. The preliminary cause of death has been ruled to be complications from congestive heart failure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of STEPHON TREAVON REGGS, 22, to 197 months in prison and JOSHUA REGGS, 20, to 120 months in prison for the armed robbery of a convenience store in south Minneapolis. Both defendants entered guilty pleas and were sentenced on May...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Prentice L. Johnson, Renina Letricia Wortham, a/k/a Renina Simmons-Wortham, and Enobahkare Malik Peterson have each been sentenced to two years, four months in federal prison for theft of government funds associated with the theft of a multi-million dollar U.S. Treasury check.
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) introduced the Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act (FDCA) of 2017, a bill to amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit credit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRYCK NORRIS, 23, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of distribution of heroin.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2017
Release: American agriculture benefits from world trade, a fact USDA celebrates daily, but especially during World Trade Month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Paramount, California, man convicted of Assault with the Intent to Commit Murder and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on May 15, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: The former Chief Executive Officer of Essex Holdings, Inc., was sentenced to 15 years in prison by United States District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Miami, in connection with two separate fraud schemes totaling more than $33 million in fraudulently obtained funds. The first scheme involved nearly 100...
