News from November 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a number of floor speeches by members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday night in support of right to try legislation, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, encouraged Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the House of Representatives to promptly take up and pass his bill, S.204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bobbie A. Holter, 53, of Racine, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months in prison and six months of home confinement for theft by a bank employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man was convicted in a federal bench trial today of illegally possessing a Street Sweeper shotgun.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led Democratic Committee Members in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administration for withholding documents the Members have been seeking for months relating to the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: A woman who possessed methamphetamine was sentenced Nov. 2, 2017, to more than three years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park has reduced the hours and days of operation at the Calumet Visitor Center. The facility is now open on Friday and Saturday from 10:00am - 3:00pm. The park will maintain this schedule from Nov. 1, 2017 - May 26, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after introduction of the Ryan-McConnell Republican tax plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on Nov. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced that United States District Court Judge Shelly D, Dick sentenced OCTAVIO BRINGAS-POSADAS, age 50, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to twenty-four (24) months in federal prison as a result of his possession of several firearms and illegal re-entry into the United States by a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Kevin R. Foster, 42, of Montclair, N.J. with charges related to a fraud scheme in a superseding indictment returned here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: In Beaumont this morning, 40-year-old Isaac Mireles of Houston was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for attempting to file fraudulent liens against a former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner, Houston Division.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of his resolution that urges adherence to the “one country, two systems" policy relating to Hong Kong’s autonomy (H.Res.422 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant admitted to robbing nine banks.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today delivered the following remarks at a news conference, after Republicans in the House of Representatives released their reconciliation tax bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GIBRON LOPEZ and JUDIE OLIVERA were convicted in Manhattan federal court yesterday of Hobbs Act robbery and Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy charges stemming from their commission of a May 2012 home invasion...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced that Senior U.S. District Judge James J. Brady sentenced BRYAN LEE ADDINGTON, age 56, of Ethel, Louisiana, to serve 159 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining over $8 million from victim investors in an investment fraud scheme. The Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: The former financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 207-L in Findlay was indicted for embezzling more than $30,000 from the union, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A restaurant owner was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for committing tax and insurance fraud involving 11 Boston-area restaurants and for committing visa and immigration fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - As a supporter of commercial recreation on our public lands that creates jobs and helps local communities grow, the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District, is accepting applications for new Special Recreation Permits from individuals and companies interested in guiding activities that will require a watercraft on the Lower Deschutes River. The application period opens Nov. 2, 2017 and will close Jan. 2, 2017.
