News from November 2017
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the outlawing of Cambodia’s main opposition party by the Cambodian Supreme Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Roderick Randy England was sentenced, to be imprisoned to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years supervised release, in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, by United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell. England previously pled guilty to making a false application on a passport application which is a violation of Title 18 U.S.C. 1542.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Washington - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that USDA provided more than $1 billion in Fiscal Year 2017 to help improve access to health care services for 2.5 million people in rural communities in 41 states.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: To accommodate the Remembrance Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 18, Taneytown Road will be closed from 10 am until approximately 3 pm, Gettysburg National Military Park officials have announced. This will affect access to the Soldiers’ National Cemetery parking lot and the park’s tour route.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Mark Lewis Pullen, 45, of Ft. Lauderdale, pled guilty today to serving as an airman without an airman’s certificate. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former bank executive was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for a fraud and identity theft scheme that caused over $3.2 million in losses. He was also ordered to pay over $3.2 million in restitution and to forfeit $8.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Keyon Montez Butler (24) of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Federal law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing firearms or ammunition. Butler was found guilty of the charge after a trial that took place in June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Fourteen defendants have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed yesterday, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a Dallas-based criminal street gang known as “YNB Stretch Gang" and a drug distribution group known as “2600 Money Block," announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 7, 2017, Gary Schroeder, of Janesville, was indicted by a federal grand jury of dealing firearms without a license and transferring a firearm to an out-of-state person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Admitted Attempting to Rob a Second Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Justin M. Nickell, 36, of Galloway, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 160 months in prison for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits Providing Vehicles to Business Owner, Who Sold Them and Shared in the Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: NOV. 17, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released a new brief “Participation Rates in Other Assistance Programs: 2013, " highlighting the measurement of participation in assistance programs which are not part of the major federal funded social safety net programs. The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) asks respondents about the use of other assistance programs: food, transportation, clothing and housing assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: A Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St. Louis has indicted Christopher Scott Fry, 47, of Jerseyville, Illinois with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm while being a user of a controlled substance, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The Court ordered Fry to be detained without bond pending trial after a hearing held today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits 2001 Assault in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Pierre Watson, 39, of Jennings Correction Center, was sentenced to 48 months in prison on Thursday by U.S. District Judge John Ross. Watson was sentenced in June to 84 months in prison in front of U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig. The two sentences which will run consecutive for a total prison sentence of 132 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for embezzling $172,551 from a customer of the Mattapan bank at which she was a teller.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Lawrence Police Officer was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with attempting to use his position as a police officer to extort cocaine from a drug trafficker.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a field hearing at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore requested by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings to examine the opioid epidemic and the recommendations of President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Trinity River Restoration Program will host a public informational meeting on Nov. 30 on a proposal to increase winter-flow releases from Lewiston Dam, which is expected to improve juvenile rearing conditions for salmonids. Program staff will outline the proposal and be available to answer questions. The meeting details are...
