News from May 2017
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement on the president’s budget submission...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to four years of imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his conviction of Possession with the Intent to Distribute Heroin, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - MELISSA DAY MORTON, of Edmond, Oklahoma, pled guilty today to bank fraud and signing a false federal income tax return, in connection with a $2.6 million embezzlement from the Oklahoma Beef Council, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two House Oversight and Government Reform Committee bills that address official time reporting by the federal government, and social security number fraud prevention. Both bills passed on voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Are you traveling to Yellowstone National Park this summer? When you visit this wild and amazing place, we ask you to come prepared so you can protect yourself and your park. Watch our short welcome video to get tips from rangers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein today recognized the Alabama and Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children task forces for their coordinated investigation that resulted in 54 search warrants being served and the arrest of 29 suspects from both states on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography, announce Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A gang member who sold crack-cocaine for the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips was sentenced today to 112 months in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Enrique S. Cavazos, 31, of Tijeras, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to marijuana trafficking and money laundering charges under a plea agreement that recommends a sentence within the range of 48 to 120 months of imprisonment. His wife, Lindsey A.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Defendant Caused Losses of More than $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: California Man Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Prisoner Identities and Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow, Special Agent in Charge Daryl R. McCrary of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Chief Anthony Holloway of the St. Petersburg Police Department, and State Attorney Bernie McCabe of the Sixth Judicial Circuit announce the culmination...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 22, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Cherry, 58, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 months in prison on a federal charge stemming from a 911 call he made last summer that falsely claimed numerous bombs were set to go off at Union Station, announced Channing D. Phillips, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Neil Trugman, Chief of the Amtrak Police Department.
By USDA Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: On May 18, 2017, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress of the Administration’s intention to begin negotiations with Canada and Mexico regarding modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As it develops U.S. negotiating objectives and procedures...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jemel X. Williams, age 34, of Macon, Georgia, was indicted for illegal possession of firearms and possession of stolen firearms.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Tucson, AZ. (May 24, 2017) --- Effective Wednesday, May 24 the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Costas Takkas pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in connection with his receipt and transmission of millions of dollars in bribes paid to now-former CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president, Jeffrey Webb. Takkas, a former general secretary of the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL CHAUVIN, age 31, of Houma, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty today to a one-count Indictment, charging him with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rashaad Schell, age 27, of Abington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 24 months of probation with six months of in-home detention by United States District Judge John E Jones, III, for knowingly making false statements in order to obtain unemployment compensation.
