News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Independence, Mo., man has been charged in federal court with producing child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry reacted to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s announcement of plans to reorganize the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create an Undersecretary for Trade and reorganize other key agencies within the Department...
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after President Trump issued an executive order relating to cybersecurity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Concealing a Person from Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Hamlet Peralta Told Investors He was Financing Large Wholesale Liquor Purchases, and Instead Used Money to Fund His Lavish Lifestyle and to Pay Back Other Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a verdict yesterday afternoon finding Albuquerque resident, Sandra Cook, 53, guilty on methamphetamine trafficking charges after a three-day trial. Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and Sheriff Manuel Gonzales, III, of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), announced the verdict.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on GDP in the first quarter of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 10, 2017, Brandon David Kinnear, a 25 year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by bySenior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for a felon in possession of a firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Former U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown Guilty of Fraud Scheme Involving Bogus Non-Profit Scholarship Entity.
By EPA Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after President Trump issued an executive order relating to cybersecurity.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry released the following statement regarding the incident at the Department’s Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago dermatologist on fraud charges for billing health-insurance programs for purported pre-cancerous treatments that were not medically necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Noah Sigalas, age 21, of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of damaging and defacing an archaeological resource (Fort Sumter) in violation of the Archeological Resources Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Today, all seventeen Democratic Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), urging the Chairman to conduct immediate hearings into the firing of James Comey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Cabool, Mo., man and his grease recycling company were indicted by a federal grand jury today for violating the Clean Water Act by dumping grease into the Big Piney River.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced the sentencing today of Justin Vazquez, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted by a jury of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 72 months incarceration by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. In reaching his sentence, Judge Geraci commented that the defendant had demonstrated a total disrespect for any authority.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Leuthe, 45, of West Seneca, NY, who was convicted of tax evasion, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to time served with two years supervised release to include 4 months of home detention. Leuthe has already paid full restitution to the IRS in the amount of $268,000 with penalties and interest.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: The Senate is currently debating the nomination of Robert Lighthizer to be the next U.S. Trade Representative, and I will take a few minutes today to discuss why Mr. Lighthizer will have my support. But first I want to begin with a hard look at the scattershot approach this administration has taken to trade in its first few months.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Former U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown was convicted by a federal jury in Jacksonville, Florida, today for her role in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent scholarship charity.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing to review issues related to pesticide registrations under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as well as the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act.
