News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent, who had been a member of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force, was sentenced to prison today on charges of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, turned in 7,687 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Forest City Weingart Produce Co.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced KYARA NICOLE JONES, 21, of Eden, North Carolina, to 108 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,477.07 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN -U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, joined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Oct. 28, 2017 for its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event was held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at thousands of collection sites around the country, including at Kroger, 7615...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Nov. 2, 2017, a federal grand jury returned seventeen separate indictments charging twenty-two individuals for trafficking firearms without a license, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The agencies in charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today addressed the House Republican tax bill and prospects for tax reform as part of the Urban Institute-Tax Policy Center’s Distinguished Speaker series...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on an illegal firearm charge, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following statements made by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding Medicaid waivers that would allow states to restrict access to the program contrary to congressional intent.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Duke: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing to examine the new phase in our nation’s generational war on terror. On Oct. 31, 2017, Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek national, converted a rental truck into a weapon by driving it down a bike path in...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits Killing Victim to Prevent Him from Testifying in State Case Against Fellow Gang Member.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Timothy Raxter, 53, of Laconia, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Made False 9-1-1 Call to Provoke Emergency Response.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Saturday marked the 100th shipment to arrive at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) since transuranic waste shipments to the facility resumed in April. Since resumption, WIPP has received 102 shipments from generator sites around the country, including EM’s Idaho, Oak Ridge, and Savannah River sites, and Waste Control Specialists in Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources examined challenges to Puerto Rico’s recovery and the role of the Financial Oversight and Management Board (Oversight Board) in the immediate and long-term. The “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act" (PROMESA)...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have taken a new step forward in the quest to build quantum photonic circuits-chip-based devices that rely on the quantum properties of light to process and communicate information rapidly and securely.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Shandarrick Barnes has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in the federal corruption investigation involving City of Atlanta government. The defendant threw a concrete block through the window of E.R. Mitchell’s home, and placed dead rodents on his porch and elsewhere hoping to thwart his cooperation with federal law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marques Henderson, 37, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to ten years in prison on narcotics and firearm offenses stemming from his operation of an open-air drug market in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
