News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Bradlee Scott Ledford was sentenced to 36 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Temesia A. Green, 44, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to three drug and gun charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Chairman Trey Gowdy agreed to his request to seek a briefing from the Department of Defense on the Niger ambush on October 4, 2017, but refused his identical requests for briefings from the White House and the Intelligence Community (IC):
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Sean T. Dubanowich, age 43, of Stillwater, New York, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for distributing steroids throughout the country and laundering his drug proceeds overseas for the purpose of acquiring more steroids to sell.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Leominster man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, CA - Graduate students interested in doing research in Joshua Tree National Park are invited to apply for assistance through the 2017 Robert Lee Graduate Student Research Grants program. Research proposals should focus on some aspect of the natural or cultural resources of Joshua Tree National Park. The application deadline is November 7, 2017 and awards will be announced by Dec. 15, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Katie Stygles, 29, of Piermont, New Hampshire, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal fraud charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Stygles on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Lower Brule and Fort Thompson, South Dakota, individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors this week charged a Mississippi man with stealing government property by defrauding an Alabama bank that received money through the Troubled Asset Relief Program following the 2008 financial crisis, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, TARP Special Inspector General Christy Goldsmith Romero, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. --Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy W. Vaillancourt, 37, Ashland, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 60 months in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug crime. Vaillancourt pleaded guilty on July 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man was charged for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee hearing on “Federal Efforts to Combat the Opioid Crisis: A Status Update on CARA and Other Initiatives:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the leader of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa. pleaded guilty today in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing on federal efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Securing Consumers’ Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Acting U.S. Attorney Elizabeth A. Strange will join the DEA on Oct. 28, 2017, for its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at thousands of collection sites around the country, including over 70 in Arizona. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. The links provided below contain information about local location sites.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington -Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report on the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017...
