News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A well-known auctioneer was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding more than 90 victims - many of whom were friends, business associates and sophisticated investors - of more than $21 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of CHRISTOPHER BARRY, 46, for stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Lutonix, Inc. BARRY, who was charged by felony information on April 5, 2017, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle in St. Paul, Minn.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 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 released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service announced it will delay a controversial regulation to revise organic livestock and poultry production standards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A well-known auctioneer was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding more than 90 victims - many of whom were friends, business associates and sophisticated investors - of more than $21 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Jeremy Walker (26), a former corrections officer cadet with the Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama pleaded guilty in federal court to a civil rights violation for assaulting a handcuffed man, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama A. Clark Morris, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Walker is a resident of Montgomery, Alabama.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A Mexican fugitive, who had been previously deported three times, and is wanted for the murder of a mother and the assault of her young son, was deported again Thursday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JEFFREY HERRING, 27, was convicted today of robbing and murdering Michael Northcote on Oct. 12, 2015, in Swan Lake, New York, as well as racketeering charges in connection with his membership in the Askari, a Bloods gang. The jury convicted HERRING on all five counts in the controlling indictment following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: VERNAL, Utah-Join BLM Archaeologist, David Grant, on Friday morning June 16, 2017, for a hiking adventure through time, exploring rock art and dinosaur tracks in the Cub Creek area east of Vernal. Participants will learn why these features are important, what stories the tracks and symbols can tell...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The sale notice and other documents related to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Battle Mountain District oil and gas lease sale scheduled to begin June 13 have been posted to the BLM’s website. A complete summary of the parcels to be offered, lease stipulations and other documents related to the lease sale are available at.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after the administration nominated two of three appointees to fill the vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following remarks at a hearing to consider the nomination of John J. Sullivan to serve as deputy secretary of state.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant MAX MYONG AHN, age 60, from Dededo, Guam, was sentenced in District Court on May 8, 2017, to five years probation to include one year home detention, restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - The City of Chesapeake has agreed to resolve an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance review of its polling locations to ensure its polling locations comply with the ADA.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN O’BRIEN, 53, of North Kingstown, R.I., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $950,000 from clients of his law practice.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Scott Gottlieb as the next U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) campground adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, California, opening has been postponed until May 19, 2017, due to a water system repair.
