News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Glendale City Attorney’s Office has been charged with embezzling $609,764 she illegally obtained by creating documents to make it appear the money was being used to pay civil claims against the city.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Aging Committee, and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 51-year-old El Paso attorney Marco Antonio Delgado (aka Marco Delgado Licon) to ten years in federal prison in connection with a multi-million dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the Tax Policy Center released an analysis of the Ryan-McConnell tax framework...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has returned an indictment charging 12 defendants with conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of cocaine. The charge carries mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine. Charged in an indictment and arrested this morning were.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: The eleventh Honduran citizen extradited under the treaty between the United States and Honduras, and the first to proceed to trial in the United States, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his involvement in a large-scale narcotics transportation organization.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Donald Loyde Harned, 72, of Oklahoma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to two years in prison and ordered to pay $219,984.00 in restitution for conspiring to defraud the United States with false claims for federal tax refunds, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Berlin, MD--The National Park Service is happy to announce a Loggerhead Sea Turtle nest has successfully hatched on Assateague Island National Seashore. Approximately 100 hatchlings have emerged from a single nest site in the Maryland Over Sand Vehicle zone and have successfully made their way out to sea.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Gene Lay, 35, of Park Hill, Okla., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Lay will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Marisol Rivera, 57, of Jacksonville, Florida, was charged today by Indictment with wire fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the nominations of Stephen Censky, of Missouri, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; and Ted McKinney, of Indiana, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, called on House Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule an immediate vote on the bipartisan postal reform bill that passed the Oversight Committee on March 17, 2017, but received no action since...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury indicted Marcus Antonio Redick, aka “Stacks," aka “Domanni Sellers," for the sex trafficking of a victim by force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge, John F. Bennett.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - This month’s featured story is “Swamp Where Gator Hides," a fun book that introduces young listeners to the concepts of camouflage and predator-prey interactions. Engaging cumulative rhyming teaches children about the animals that live in swamps like those along the Natchez Trace Parkway...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Sept. 29, 2017, James H. Brennan, 68, and Douglas A. Dyer, 58, both of Chattanooga, Tennessee, were sentenced by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, U.S. District Court Judge, to respectively serve 48 months and 60 months in federal prison for their roles in a wire fraud and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARYSE LIBURDI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 49 months in prison for her scheme to defraud investors in a technology company founded and operated by LIBURDI out of more than $7 million. LIBURDI was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote, before whom she previously pled guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Kendra Westmoreland, age 55, of Randallstown, Maryland, to two years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release for receiving and delivering an adulterated or misbranded device, in connection with her receipt and use of polydimethylsiloxane, which she misrepresented to customers as medical grade silicone. Judge Hollander also ordered Westmoreland pay a fine of $2,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer Richard Scavone pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to assaulting a handcuffed woman in his custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Dangelo Currie was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for dealing in firearms without a license, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jon S. Tigar after Currie pleaded guilty to the crime.
