News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Defendants tied to a string of at least twelve violent robberies occurring at small stores across Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Windsor woman was sentenced today to nine years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft offenses.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced that he will convene a hearing entitled “An Insider’s Look at the North Korean Regime " on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 10:00 a.m with Thae Yong-ho - a high-ranking North Korean defector.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s declaration that the opioid crisis is a public health emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, and armed robbery. Defendant admitted responsibility for murdering an innocent bystander, attempted murder of rival gang member and armed robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following House passage of the fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned the middle-class that their bottom lines would take a hit as Republicans look to fast-track a tax bill that gives windfalls to the one percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Lawrence Michael Lynde, 49, of Streetsboro, was indicted on charges of with receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing child pornography, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Malik Palin, a/k/a “Gambino," 26, of New York, New York, was charged today by Indictment with attempted sex trafficking of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 24, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a woman who allegedly stole a vehicle from a residence on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Danielle R. Kaquatosh...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant LLOYD JOHN AGUON, age 41, from Umatac, Guam, was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2017 in District Court to a 18-month term of imprisonment with credit for time served, to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today the conviction of an Addis businessman who stole over $250,000 from investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted for the armed robbery of a bank on Shaker Boulevard, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Six defendants involved in a May 2017 federal drug sweep in Lawrence were charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with additional drug and firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: HOUSE PASSED: Brady Bill to Deliver Immediate Tax Relief to Hurricane Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: A Mexican man who had previously been deported following federal convictions for unlawful use of identification documents and misuse of a Social Security number was sentenced Oct. 25, 2017, to 15 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced a bicameral agreement to pair concrete, structural Obamacare reforms with a temporary two-year funding extension for the health law’s cost-sharing reduction (CSR) program. This would provide Americans with more certainty and choice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Committee Democrats today slammed a new Department of Commerce report issued under Executive Order 13783, which recommends unsupportable and dangerous changes to the way we manage our oceans. Among other moves, the report calls for weakening...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a man from Texas pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug distribution charges after heroin was found in his car battery.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today announced Mary Martin as the new Chief Counsel for both the Energy and Environment Subcommittees.
