News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today filed legislation that would allow Medicare beneficiaries access to critical opioid addiction treatment medication in outpatient and physician settings.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Paving the way for transforming the world’s measurement system, an international task force has determined updated values for four fundamental constants of nature. The updated values comprise the last scientific piece of the puzzle for redefining the modern metric system, known as the International System of Units (SI). If approved by an international body next year, the revised SI will enable authoritative measurements to be made anywhere on the planet.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Southeast Idaho - The Salmon-Challis National Forest (SCNF), Sawtooth National Forest (SNF) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District (IFD) are providing another opportunity for the public to review and comment on the refined wilderness management plans (WMPs) and environmental analysis...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for dealing prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The National Red Ribbon Campaign has kicked off its 33rd anniversary across the country. The campaign, which is the nation’s farthest reaching drug prevention effort, began after drug traffickers in Mexico kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Special Agent Enrique “Kiki" Camarena in March 1985. Officially, Red Ribbon Week is celebrated nationally from October 23-31; however, communities and school districts nationwide hold events throughout the month.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a complaint has been filed in federal court charging a Granite City man with the robbery of Granite City Steel Credit Union on Oct. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER SIMMS, age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced last week after previously pleading guilty to a nine-count superseding Bill of Information for bank robbery and armed robbery and a one-count Indictment for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Today, Russell Tim Shen, 69, Andre Jorge Hernandez, 39, and Ernesto Esteve, 50, all from Miami, Florida, appeared before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and were sentenced for their roles in a marihuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two men pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to their roles in a widespread heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy operating in Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Jason Morel, 22, and Kenith J. Quesada, 23, both of Bronx, New York, were sentenced last Thursday for aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Morel to 24 months and Quesada to 12 months in federal prison. Both men pleaded guilty on Aug. 2, 2017. Co-conspirator Rafael Moran was sentenced on August 8, 2017, for aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Leesburg man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for wire fraud in connection with his role in a $9.5 million investment fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 22-year-old Brownwood, Texas, man, Sebastian Contreras, who pleaded guilty in July 2017 to two counts of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced last week by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 168 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Contreras will begin serving his prison sentence on Dec. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Daewon Warren, age 27, of Summerville, was convicted in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Sex Trafficking of a Minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591 and seven other charges related to sex trafficking. U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The executive director of a nonprofit provider of mental health services to Camden’s poorest residents was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for defrauding New Jersey Medicaid by using unqualified people to treat Medicaid recipients and taking money from the nonprofit, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: OXFORD, Robert H. Norman, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, together with Luis Santiago, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and William “Wynne" Fuller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chief of Operations for the Mobile District, announces.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Bank Robbery of Regions Bank on Oct. 23, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: The world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture system has reached a major milestone, capturing more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: This week, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month event organizers-DHS and the National Cyber Security Alliance -have selected the theme: The Internet Wants YOU: Consider a Career in Cybersecurity.
