News from November 2017
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3922, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, by a vote of 242-174. H.R. 3922 provides funding extensions of vital, popular public health programs, including...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A restaurant owner was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston for committing tax and insurance fraud involving 11 Boston-area restaurants, and for committing visa and immigration fraud. The sentencing follows a multiagency investigation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Houston, Texas, woman was sentenced today to nearly 15 years in prison for her role in a $6 million fraud scheme involving “Mystery Shoppers.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Illinois Woman Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to File Fraudulent Tax Returns Using Stolen Identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Mustafa Hassan, 34, of Portland was sentenced on November 1 in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to seven years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and 28 grams or more of cocaine base, commonly known as crack. The defendant was convicted following a jury trial on March 16, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 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 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s suggestion that electricity might help prevent sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA - A pimp, known by the moniker “Classified," who recruited approximately 20 women and girls through a social media website and advertised their services as prostitutes in an online publication, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud or coercion.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), joined by House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Vicente González (D-TX), introduced legislation to promote domestic energy development on both America’s Outer Continental Shelf...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A West Springfield man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to various charges of sexual exploitation of children, including producing child pornography by video recording and photographing himself sexually abusing a five-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - LEONARD RAY FOSTER, of Oklahoma City, has pled guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud retailers of millions of dollars through gift cards, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Encountered Intoxicated Victim on Street, Took Her to His Apartment Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: For Straw Purchasing Firearms. HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Paul Fowlkes, 23, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on Nov. 2, 2017 by District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen to 30 months imprisonment to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: The Defendant Continued to Access Child Pornography while on Supervised Release.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the president’s trip to Asia...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Step back in time and learn to clog! Join us at our Van Buren Visitor Center to watch and learn traditional Ozark clogging from our local Fireside Cloggers dance group on Saturday, November 18th, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This free workshop is an excellent time to learn a new style of dance, or just sit back and enjoy watching the dancers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Marcus Jones was sentenced to ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine today after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jon S. Tigar, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: The Antioch, Tennessee-based company that owns and does business as Life Care Center of Hickory Woods agreed to pay $12,000 and to adopt a written service animal policy to resolve an Americans with Disabilities Act complaint, announced Don Cochran, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: A Boynton Beach resident was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by lifetime of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor and producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: A former FAA Aviation Safety Inspector and the co-owner of a South Florida aviation repair company, AVCOM Avionics and Instruments Inc., were charged with various offenses in connection with bribery scheme during 2010-2013. To date, the other co-owner of AVCOM Avionics and Instruments Inc. has also been convicted and sentenced in connection with the ongoing investigation.
