News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: An Information[1] was returned yesterday charging Bradley Mark Cohen, 60, of Ottsville, PA, with four counts of filing false tax returns and three counts of structuring cash deposits to avoid a reporting requirement, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By US DOT Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) sent a letter to President Trump calling for the United States to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Conspiracy included two members from Central Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A man who executed an elaborate auto loan fraud scheme was sentenced today to two years in prison for bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Officers from the Tulsa office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 22 criminal aliens and immigration violators during a six-week operation ending May 16.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Corporal Jerome Pierce was killed in action during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1864. For Memorial Day, a park ranger will place flowers and a note card that reads “Once Lost, Now Found, Never Forgotten" on his grave in the national cemetery near where he fell. This tribute, started long ago by his grieving widow, is one of the many ways the National Park Service will commemorate Memorial Day.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the hearing entitled “Examining the Farm Economy: Perspectives on Rural America."
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City District-Sierra Front Field Office, announces the temporary closure of 450 acres of public lands adjacent to and north of Stead Airport in Washoe County, Nevada, due to activities related to the National Championship Air Races. This action will be taken...
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: 6:30 p.m. -NPS Ranger program -1862 Valley Campaign in a Box.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WILSON MAURICIO OSORTO-ESTRADA, age 35, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) & (b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Case Among Several Illegal Gun Possession Federal Indictments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Barbara Wallace, 52, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced by Senior United States District William T. Moore, Jr. yesterday to 41 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid. Judge Moore also ordered Wallace to serve 3 years of supervised release upon her release from prison, and to pay $948,361 in restitution and forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with running a $10 million Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former Shreveport chiropractor and his son were sentenced Wednesday for funneling money through an unlawful bitcoin financial scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JULIUS NELSON, 32, of Meriden, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By EPA Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released a discussion draft of a comprehensive gaming bill, the Gaming Accountability and Modernization Enhancement Act, or GAME Act, which allows states to legalize sports betting and online gambling if appropriate consumer protections are also in place.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two West Virginia men pled guilty today to mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Donald Threatt, 67, of Fairfield, charging him with attempted online enticement of a minor, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, and the commission of an offense involving a minor while required to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released a discussion draft of a comprehensive gaming bill, the Gaming Accountability and Modernization Enhancement Act, or GAME Act, which allows states to legalize sports betting and online gambling if appropriate consumer protections are also in place.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against Mark Corum, 60, of Sacramento, adding four counts of production of child pornography to the original indictment brought in December 2016, which charged him with one count of distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
