News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national has pleaded guilty in federal court to using a stolen Social Security number in order to obtain a Massachusetts driver’s license.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 33-year-old Kevin Clay Montgomery was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 30 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office seeks public comment on a proposal to sell four public land parcels totaling 6.72 acres to the City of Black Hawk.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alexis McDonald, 19, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced to 37 months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kevin Graham Conlon, age 30, of Cockeysville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on May 15, 2017, to production of child pornography and cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: A former Whitman, Massachusetts police sergeant pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, preparing false income tax returns for clients of his tax preparation business, obstructing the internal revenue laws and misappropriating funds from the accounts of disabled veterans while he was a fiduciary appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two men, Connor Dempsey, 20, and Joel C. Jacob, 21, both of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S District Judge Elizabeth Wolford. Dempsey and Jacob each pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, which carry a maximum penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Justice and 28 states have reached an $8 million settlement with Omnicare Inc. resolving allegations arising from a whistle-blower suit filed under the False Claims Act. The agreement was announced today by Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Justice and 28 states have reached an $8 million settlement with Omnicare Inc. resolving allegations arising from a whistle-blower suit filed under the False Claims Act. The agreement was announced today by Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Donald Royce, age 40, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for tax preparation fraud charges.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced several recent promotions and additions to her Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jonathan Kyle Lanier (23, Leesburg) with carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of carjacking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Representatives Susan Davis (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) introduced the Pell Grant Preservation & Expansion Act today that will expand and permanently safeguard the Pell Grant program, helping millions of low-income...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: A man who violated the terms of his supervised release was sentenced on May 15, 2017, to three years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today 11 Senate Democrats called on President Trump to drop any attempts to implement the proposed 18 percent reduction laid out in his proposed budget and cuts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAVED CHOUDHRY, 59, of Glastonbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiracy and tax offenses related to a kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that JOHN FARCHIONE, a former customer operations manager of a public...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Charles Town, West Virginia man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for unlawful possessed a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
