News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An Arizona man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer during a federal impoundment operation of Cliven Bundy’s trespassing cattle in the Bunkerville, Nevada area in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a more than $200,000 mortgage fraud conspiracy involving a property she purchased in Mays Landing, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Donald Burton, 51, of Vallejo, was sentenced today to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine for his part in a bribery scheme involving city contracts, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steve Jamal Smith, also known as Jabrail Love, 23, of Hyattsville, Md., and John King Lionell, also known as Rashad Lionell, 24, of Washington, D.C., have been found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to rob banks in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that five defendants have pleaded guilty in the past week to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through the operation of eight medical clinics and related health care providers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - This supplemental release to the previously distributed November 8, 2017, release, “Fentanyl Overdose Case Sentenced," seeks to clarify the charges upon which each defendant has been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time during its annual oversight hearing. Every Attorney General before Attorney General Sessions has testified before the House Judiciary Committee during their first six months of taking office. Watch the hearing on House Judiciary Democrats’ Facebook page here.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) recently upgraded the Hanford Site ’s oldest operating water treatment facility, ensuring a dependable water source for the Central Plateau cleanup.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Daniel Rush Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Breaching Fiduciary Duty to UFCW and Participating in Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of reentry of removed alien, Acting States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR). The new procedures, which were announced earlier this year, require travelers to place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening in standard lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth woman pleaded guilty today to an embezzlement scheme that nearly wiped out an account used to assist sick or distressed members of a local labor union.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) employees work safer and smarter thanks to innovative technology such as heart rate monitors, cooling vests, and automatic welding systems.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s 2 p.m. ET hearing, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) pointed out that Committee Republicans are taking advantage of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) vulnerable state by focusing on expanding federal control over the island’s recovery efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Mark Gillis Defrauded Brokerage Customers out of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write to express our concern regarding what we believe to be unprecedented action by the U.S. Department of Education (“Department") to close a part of federal rulemaking off from the public. Given the Trump Administration’s repeated efforts to undermine protections for defrauded...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on reports that Senate Republicans have opted to raise families’ premiums and take coverage away from 13 million people as part of their rushed, partisan effort to give millionaires and billionaires a tax cut.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a waiver from the agency’s small drone rules (Part 107 ) to Cevitasnow in Columbus, OH, to allow the company to operate a helium-filled Aerotain Skye tethered aircraft over people on the ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cruz Jose Martinez, 32, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to sending and receiving child pornography over the Internet.
