News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Finance Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Kevin K. McAleenan to serve as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that John U. Carroll, Ann Carroll, Courtney Carroll, Jay G. Carroll, Mary C. Carroll, Mary Rita Carroll, Ralph Carroll, Mary Gorman, Tina Gorman, Thomas Martin Mack, Rachel McNally, Billy O'Hara, Jim O'Hara, Winnie O'Hara, Hugh...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the DEA and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office today charged a fourth sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.,-based compounding pharmacy for participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) has completed planning for the Strentzel-Muir Gravesite in Martinez, California and is releasing the Finding of No Significant Impact, which documents the Selected Alternative and final decision.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of smuggling 3.7 kilograms of methamphetamine past a Border Patrol (BP) checkpoint, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Francisco Guerrero pleaded guilty Jan. 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Twice Annual Event Takes Place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. October 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Joseph Seymour, 39, of West Warwick, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. - At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 20, 2017, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Law Enforcement Rangers were notified that an 18-year-old male had fallen from the Maryland Heights Overlook in Washington County, Md. A preliminary investigation aided by several witness statements...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Richland, Wash. - EM has named Brian Vance the new manager for its Office of River Protection at the Hanford Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 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 issue a subpoena demanding that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder finally comply-in full-with the Committee’s bipartisan request for documents relating to the Flint water crisis, including all documents relating to when the Governor became aware of concerns relating to Legionnaires’ disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Joyce Minton, 65, Aaron Brooke Warren, 43, and James Minton, 70, all of Nicholasville, Ky., have been sentenced, respectively, to 97 months, 46 months, and 18 months in federal prison, for defrauding a Nicholasville business. They were also ordered to forfeit the proceeds of their crimes and to pay restitution to their victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON SHEPHARD, also known as “Angel," 19, of New London, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Virginia Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced NATHIAN D. HOSSLEY, age 51, of Baton Rouge, to serve 78 months in federal prison for defrauding a construction contractor out of over $800,000 in relation to the construction...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Randl Arthur Roth, 49, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the former owner of Murfreesboro-based Nashville Motor Cars Premier car dealership, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., to 24 months in federal prison for defrauding his dealership’s customers and business partners of more than $550,000, announced U.S. Attorney Donald Q. Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Defendant Arrested With Approximately 32 Kilograms of Illicit Prescription Pills In His Possession.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Shield Packaging Co. Inc., ASI Staffing Group Corp., and Southern Mass Staffing have reached agreements to correct hazards and enhance safety following a May 2016 incident in which an employee was injected with a flammable propellant gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Jamie Edward Cole, age 38, of Gray Court, S.C. entered a guilty plea today in federal court in Greenville, to Manufacturing Counterfeit Currency, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 471. United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks accepted the guilty plea and will impose the sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report, which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
