News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Pembroke Pines.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Louis Frances Bradley, age 66, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 35 years in prison, followed by a lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Bradley has four previous state convictions on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children.
By State Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House of Representatives began consideration of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act (H.R. 1644). The bipartisan bill strengthens sanctions targeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un regime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a group of freight payment, logistics, and shipping businesses headquartered in Branchburg, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Defendants Are Charged with Victimizing More than 10,000 Small Businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to use online escort ads to lure robbery victims.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will convene a hearing on Tuesday, May 9, to examine the reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The hearing titled, “The Children’s Health Insurance Program: The Path Forward," will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - A man from the Texas Panhandle was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 14 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Amantadine hydrochloride may be the most common medication you’ve never heard of. This compound has been around for decades as the basis for antiviral and other medications, from flu therapy to treatments for brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease and the fatigue associated with multiple sclerosis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BOBBY R. LOWE, age 66, of Harvey, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By State Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act (H.R. 1644 )...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Construction crews are more than half-way done repaving the 13-Mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Mile 8 will begin pulverization today and is expected to be done paving by Friday.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed three bipartisan bills to strengthen protections for whistleblowers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant Leuk Kwan Chau, 21, of East Hampton, NY, was charged yesterday by Indictment with mail fraud, passport fraud, and aiding and abetting announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Separate Attacks Took Place Last Summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alexandra Foster (619) 546-6735 and Robert Ciaffa (619) 546-7748.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Three Cape Cod men pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin and suboxone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -On May 1, 2017, David Lee Byrd, 58, and his wife, Paula Ruth Hall Byrd, 58, both of Limestone, Tennessee, were sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. David Byrd was ordered to serve 10 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 34-year-old Kirbyville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a federal grand jury in Wilmington charged Eric Kappesser, age 27, of Stevensville, Maryland, with two counts of impersonating a federal agent and one count of the unauthorized possession...
