News from September 2017
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Following recent press reports that Sputnik, a radio network funded by the Russian government allegedly used U.S. airwaves to influence the 2016 presidential election, Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) urged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A total of 20 individuals are now in custody following a law enforcement operation this week led by special agents of the Drug Enforcement (DEA). Seventeen of the 20 charged were in the United States illegally at the time the offenses occurred Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted he used his home computer to distribute sexually explicit videos and images of children, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Following recent press reports that Sputnik, a radio network funded by the Russian government allegedly used U.S. airwaves to influence the 2016 presidential election, Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) urged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the Keeping Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure (KIDS) Act (S. 1827), bipartisan legislation to ensure stability for vulnerable children by extending funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Kingwood, West Virginia woman pled guilty today to her role in an oxycodone distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Courtney Wayne Littlejohn, 41, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced late Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, to 100 months in prison on bank robbery charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. also ordered Littlejohn to serve three years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that ROBERT MONROE WILSON III, age 48, of Baxter Springs, Kansas, pled guilty to DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1363 and 7(3), punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - The National Park Service (NPS) Eastern Incident Management Team (Team) is now in its second week of operations, working in parks throughout South Florida, the Caribbean, and along the Atlantic coast, coordinating...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Merav Hizmi, age 41, of Surfside Beach, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence to Making False Statements Under Oath to an Immigration Official, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1015(a). United...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, to learn more about the Graham-Cassidy proposal. The hearing, entitled, “Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal" will take place at 2 p.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 215.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - General Jones, 31, of Pawtucket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, Mickey Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of ATF, and Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the announcement of a single committee hearing on the Cassidy-Graham-Heller health care proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brian Lee, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Breadsprings, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to child sexual abuse charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Lee will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Lee will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Admits Understating Income by More than $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Labette banker was sentenced Monday to eight months of imprisonment to be followed by four months of home confinement for a wire fraud scheme that included misappropriating funds from a bank and an insurance company, and filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a passenger from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident of Nigeria was indicted today for participating in a sophisticated business email scheme that sought millions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury and a separate conspiracy to possess counterfeit and unauthorized credit cards, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hazelet, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court to health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - FRANCIS MICHAEL BOSTICK, of Oklahoma City, pled guilty today to filing a false federal income tax return for 2012 that failed to report more than $325,000 of income, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
