News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Early, 32, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man will appear in federal court today to face allegations that he planned to construct and use a pressure cooker bomb in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana Boente announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Christopher Dale Gann, 30, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 240 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2016 to one count of distribution of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: FBI and Eugene Police Arrest Barret R. Spangler in Child Pornography Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Calvin Joel Polk, 50, of Coleman, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 71 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Stuart M. Goldberg, the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced today that WILLIAM DOONAN, an attorney who operated a tax preparation business in the...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Rep. Bradley Byrne, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, introduced the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Clarification Act (H.R. 2354), legislation to ensure workers and employers in the recreational maritime repair industry have access to affordable workers’ compensation coverage.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today on the withdrawal of Mark Green from consideration for the role of Army Secretary under President Trump...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2017
Release: BALTIMORE - A man was arrested at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) early this morning, Friday, May 5, after Transportation Security Administration officers caught him carrying a handgun at a security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Jose Augustine Hernandez, 32, of Lubbock, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 71 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: MAY 5, 2017 - On May 7, 2017, at 6:13 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the U.S. population clock is projected to cross the 325 million threshold. That’s according to Vintage 2016 population estimates produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Short-term projections for the resident population of the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Stole over $253,000 from a family trust of which he was the trustee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Honduran Man Pleads Guilty to Use of A Firearm During a Crime of Violence Resulting in Death to Another for MS-13 Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant an El Salvadorian National located in East Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 76-year-old Montgomery man has been convicted on two counts related to an investment fraud scheme involving more than 50 victims and more than $5 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced legislation to measurably reduce carbon pollution over the next decade through a series of incentives for clean energy and the promotion of new technologies in the private sector. Wyden’s Clean Energy for America...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - A Dallas man was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 20 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2016 to one count of distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: New York Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Filing Thousands of Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after a Justice Department court filing revealed that “the FDA has represented that it will defer enforcement of all future compliance deadlines under the deeming rule for e-cigarette products for 3 months"...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 11 years’ imprisonment on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
