News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael J. Costello, age 42, of Archbald, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2017, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 12 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Wesley A. Muchow, 51, of Bucyrus, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Justin X. Carroll, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for viewing 15 child porn videos and more than 600 images of children engaged in sex acts.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Trump administration declared the opioid crisis, which resulted in 33,000 deaths in 2015 alone, a public health emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A resident of downtown Los Angeles was found guilty this afternoon of federal drug trafficking charges for participating in a conspiracy that imported acetylfentanyl, a drug very similar to fentanyl, which is a powerful and highly addictive opioid. Acetylfentanyl, which is five times more potent that heroin, is not approved for any use in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy reconsider his decision to reject Cummings’ request to send a document request to the White House as part of the Committee’s bipartisan investigation into the Trump Administration’s response to the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. President: The Administration’s failure to enforce the Russia-related sanctions mandated by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (P.L.115-44) ignores the clear will of overwhelming bipartisan majorities that passed this legislation in Congress. Furthermore, it deepens...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury indicted a Converse woman for seven counts of mail fraud.
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: ALBUQUERQUE - Rogelio Delgado, 25, a Mexican national illegally residing in Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and illegally re-entry charges. Delgado will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A resident of downtown Los Angeles was found guilty this afternoon of federal drug trafficking charges for participating in a conspiracy that imported acetyl fentanyl, a drug very similar to fentanyl, which is a powerful and highly addictive opioid. The guilty verdict is the result of an investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Gustavo Millan-Arizmendi, 29, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, before U.S. District Court Judge Sul Ozerden, to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Medicaid and evading both his personal income taxes and his company’s employment taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: St. Augustine, FL - On Veterans Day, Nov 11, the Castillo de San Marcos will be open free to the public in honor of our veterans’ service to our nation, and to commemorate 452 years of militia in St. Augustine. Events will include a parade sponsored by the Veterans Council of St. Johns County and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark; James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD); George P. Beach...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: November Public Programs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant and other executives allegedly bribed doctors and pharmacists to prescribe fentanyl spray meant for breakthrough cancer pain.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) Superintendent Scott Tucker recently announced the issuance of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Platte River Mouth Restoration and Access Plan/Environmental Assessment (EA). The National Park Service (NPS) has selected the Preferred Alternative (Alternative 2) presented in the EA.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Order Promoting Health Care Choice and Competition...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: On Oct. 25, the National Park Service informed the organizers of “Catharsis on the Mall" that a permit would be issued for their event to take place November 10-12 on the northwest quadrant of the National Mall grounds, and approved the placement of more than 30 temporary structures in support of the event.
