News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sylvain Desjardins, 48, of Maribel, Canada, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing 290 pounds of cocaine in a plane that went down near Athens, Ohio on March 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Aaron Carson Cheek, age 27, of Golden, was sentenced yesterday to serve 84 months in federal prison for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Field Division Special Agent in Charge Debora Livingston announced. Cheek was in custody prior to the sentencing hearing, and was remanded following the sentencing hearing.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) following up on several exchanges that occurred between committee members and Mr. Neil Doherty, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at a Wednesday hearing before the full committee.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a Fortification Creek Planning Area meeting on Nov. 9 beginning at 9 a.m. at the Johnson County Fire District 1 Station off the North By-Pass in Buffalo, Wyo. As stewards, the BLM manages public lands for the benefit of current and future generations, while supporting conservation as we pursue our multiple use mission.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: A project to remove Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier and its pier house will begin in December 2017. The removal project was awarded to DOT Construction (Beaufort, NC) and is expected to be completed by Spring 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant admits responsibility for murdering innocent bystander in Chelsea.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement today after President Trump declared the ongoing opioid epidemic a public health emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Oct. 25, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Louis Bracey, age 41, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to 151 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Manuel Clemente, age 62, of Manhattan, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Mark Vega, 35, of Shillington, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for Mail Fraud, submitting false claims to the United States, and Aggravated Identity Theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the indictment, Vega obtained stolen identities and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CURTIS DRAUGHN, also known as “Kirk," 62, of New Haven, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with distributing controlled substances.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke today released the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s announcement that he will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2017) – Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Greg Ibach, who was nominated by President Donald J. Trump to serve as Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: A suburban Pittsburgh physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and unlawfully distributing controlled substances, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The indictment of Andrzej Kazimierz Zielke, 62, is the first since Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that the Department of Justice has entered into settlements, pending approval by the district courts, in two cases brought by groups whose tax-exempt status was significantly delayed by the Internal Revenue Service based on inappropriate criteria. The first ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The Antitrust Division’s Premerger and Division Statistics Unit is relocating to the Liberty Square Building, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. The Premerger and Division Statistics Unit accepts and processes Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger & Report Forms for the Antitrust Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Richard D. Austin was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment yesterday for trafficking juvenile American eels (also called “elvers” or “glass eels”) in violation of the Lacey Act, following a hearing in federal district court in Norfolk, Virginia. The sentence was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc., was arrested today and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain. "More than 20,000 Americans ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Three officers with the Pomona Police Department (PPD) surrendered this morning to face federal charges that allege one officer violated the civil rights of a minor who was beaten at the Los Angeles County Fair two years ago, and that all three took illegal steps to justify and cover-up the attack.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday issued a Consent Order against Mid America Bank and Trust Company ("Mid America"), Dixon, Missouri, for deceptive practices in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act related to balance transfer credit cards issued to consumers by Mid America through third parties. The Consent Order requires Mid America to pay approximately $5 million in restitution to nearly 21,000 consumers.
