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 State Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) today applauded Senate Foreign Relations Committee passage of their legislation to hold Iran accountable. The bipartisan legislation, now with 48 ...
By DOE 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: LUBBOCK - An investigation into a large scale drug trafficking organization in Hockley and Cochran County, Texas has resulted in federal drug distribution conspiracy charges against seven defendants who are charged in two federal indictments that were returned last week by a grand jury in Lubbock, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Tax return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: A South Florida resident was sentenced today, by U.S. District Court Donald L. Graham, to 12 years in prison for committing an armed robbery of a jewelry store in the Seybold Building in downtown Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Rock Island, Ill., businessman, Todd B. Raufeisen, waived indictment and pled guilty to an information that charged him with defrauding investors in his land development and management projects of approximately $1.7 million. Raufeisen, 56, entered his guilty pleas to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering today before U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow. Sentencing is scheduled on Sept. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that on May 23, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in Florence, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Tyquil Clayron Norris III, 20, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with sex trafficking via force, fraud and coercion, and sex trafficking of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Johnny Willie Jones, age 30, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia for felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis, of Columbia, sentenced Jones to 84 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised probation.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 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 , titled, “Examining the Farm Economy: Perspectives on Rural America."
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 Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine the Administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget request for the Treasury Department and current policies to overhaul the nation’s tax code...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: A South Florida resident was sentenced today, by U.S. District Court Donald L. Graham, to 12 years in prison for committing an armed robbery of a jewelry store in the Seybold Building in downtown Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Hoover man for three bank robberies between January and April, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: RIVERTON, Wyo. - Wyoming’s 2017 wild horse and burro adoption season is off to a strong start after all animals offered at Saturday’s Bureau of Land Management-Wyoming Honor Farm event were adopted. Twenty saddle- and halter-started horses and 10 saddle- and halter-started burros found new homes in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana after being gentled by inmate trainers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that today Chief United States District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Aren Lee Perryman, aka Filthy, age 32, of Spokane, Washington, to a 30-year term of imprisonment after pleading...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting Federal Officers and Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence was sentenced on May 22, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Cabrillo National Monument’s park hours will be from 12pm until 8pm on Monday May 29, 2017. The park will be closed before noon on this day, due to the Memorial Day event and Services at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Catalina Blvd at Navy Base Gate Post 2 and roads in the park will be closed in the morning to all vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians in order to reduce congestion and increase safety.
