News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: U.S. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) and U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member David N. Cicilline (RI-01) pressed for a hearing on growing evidence of the Trump administration allowing politics to impact their review of mergers in the telecommunications and media industries.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of kidnapping was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today advanced reconciliation legislation pursuant to the committee’s instruction to raise $1 billion in federal revenues in H. Con. Res. 71, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that 13 individuals have been charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841 and 846. Those individuals are as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, Sixteen defendants face federal charges related to methamphetamine production, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division, and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Level 2 sex offender from Douglas pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chasity Chandae Stone, of Brooklyn, Maryland, has admitted to heroin distribution, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Ikechukwu Udeokoro and Ayodeji Fasonu for their roles in an alleged scheme to submit over $3.5 million in fraudulent claims to private insurers, which included government-sponsored managed care organizations. Udeokoro and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced GREGORY D. CHISOLM, age 53, of New Orleans, to 188 months, or fifteen and a half years, in federal prison for two bank robberies and an attempted robbery of a casino.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee markup of nine measures, including his own resolution highlighting the importance of a U.S.-Mexico partnership based on mutual respect...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man, dubbed the “Spelling Bee Bandit," pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to four bank robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Today we will continue our consideration of the chairman’s mark for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Last night, as promised, we delivered to members a modification that we will incorporate into the mark this morning. After that, we will walk through the modification, and members will get an opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the modification. Once that process is complete, the mark, as modified, will be open for amendment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in federal court for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee’s modified chairman’s mark earned the endorsement of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ernest Young, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Harrison, AR: Compton Volunteer Fire Department received a $5,000 National Park Service Rural Fire Assistance Program grant from Buffalo National River at a ceremony at Compton on Monday, November 13th. “This grant will be used to purchase much needed firefighting equipment and personal protective gear"...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Janet Roe, 56, of Twin Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to making a false statement to the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following press reports that Republicans will include a repeal of the individual mandate in their tax reform bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: A Lima man was indicted on child pornography charges, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
