News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Orlando Rivera, 29, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was charged by Indictment with enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct, production of child pornography, and transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GEOFFREY RICKETTS, age 48, and SAMUEL KIM, age 42, both of Porter Ranch, California, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The owner of American Auto Pros in Corpus Christi has admitted he used numerous credit card accounts belonging to others in order to obtain things of value without authorization, announced Acting United States Attorney Abe Martinez. Antonio Arteaga, 38, of Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty to one count of credit card fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the final rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) drastically reducing resources for the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) 340B drug pricing program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of one day imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, with the first six months to be served on home detention, on his conviction of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and 19 House Democrats sent a letter to President Trump today urging him to release the Department of Commerce report sent to the White House last week on Secretary Wilbur Ross’ review of 11 National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National Monuments.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, during a business meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republican Committee Members blocked all consideration of requests by Democrats to debate and vote on six subpoenas for critical documents that are being withheld by the White House and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Opening of Mail by Postal Employee, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Nov. 2, 2017, Trevor Graves, 19, a former University of Iowa student, appeared in federal court in front of United States Magistrate Judge Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., on a complaint charging from March of 2015 to November of 2016, Graves exceeded authorized access, knowingly caused...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement on the introduction of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act-historic legislation to reform America’s tax code...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - James Edward McIntire, 54, of Dallas, was sentenced today before Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to 27 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,997,215 in restitution for bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC -The United States Attorney’s Office’s Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC), the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers’ Association (SCLEOA), and the Strom Thurmond Foundation will host a luncheon on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, for the presentation of the 2017 Strom Thurmond Awards...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: A man who manufactured counterfeit twenty dollar bills pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Stanley Lamar Bailey has been sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing ammunition and a firearm on November 7, 2015, after leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Roman Daniel Vanberkom, 31, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Oct. 27, 2017, for being a felon and unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms. Vanberkom was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received 43 months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thaddeus Grice, 38, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
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 Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for a series of armed robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Republicans in Congress and the administration are unified in advancing comprehensive tax reform that puts money back in the pockets of middle-class Americans, grows wages and creates jobs. Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) released a tax overhaul bill based on the...
