News from September 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced a number of appointments and promotions for the Committee’s staff, including three new subcommittee staff directors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Maalik Jones Trained and Fought with the Terrorist Organization’s Specialized Fighting Force, Jaysh Ayman.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a statement following the U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent announcement that it will roll-back an Obama-era rule allowing states to opt out of work requirements for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) beneficiaries - a key element of the 1996 welfare reform law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - New Jersey, Florida, Arizona and Pennsylvania Men are the latest to plead guilty for their roles in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through a massive telephone impersonation fraud and money laundering scheme perpetrated by a network of India-based call centers.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE., Wyo. - The Bridger Coal Company has submitted a Coal Exploration License to obtain coal structural and quality information on approximately 1,560 acres of public land northwest of the Jim Bridger Power Plant and underground coal mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a seven-count indictment yesterday charging RAYMOND ORTEGA, 23, of Hartford, with drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Senior U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake sentenced Daphne Iatridis and her husband, Arthur Telles, both 59, to 30 months in prison and ordered the couple to forfeit 26 fraudulently purchased properties to the United States. Both had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore.- In support of its goal to serve the American family, the Bureau of Land Management’s National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center will host a performance from Portland pianist Hunter Noack on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the outdoor wagon encampment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former member of the Planning Commission for the City of Westminster has been convicted of a federal bribery charge for soliciting and receiving a $15,000 bribe to help a person obtain a liquor license.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Ringwood, New Jersey, man appeared in federal court today to face cocaine distribution, money laundering, and other conspiracy charges associated with his role in a scheme to import large quantities of cocaine from Guyana to New Jersey and New York, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Brattleboro, Vt., man has been sentenced in federal court for the aggravated sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: I rise in support of providing critical emergency relief to respond to the catastrophic damages wreaked by Hurricane Harvey, and the expectation of damages from Hurricane Irma. My thoughts and prayers remain with all those whose families, lives, homes, and businesses have been upended by these disasters. This Congress and the American people are with you in your time of need.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Man Falsely Claimed Images Were of His Daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Roman Seleznev has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role in the 2008 hack of RBS Worldpay. Seleznev was responsible for cashing out $2,178,349 associated with five hacked debit card numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Juan Carlos Marin-Cardona, 47, a citizen and national of Colombia, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 30 months in federal prison, which he will serve consecutively to the 70-month prison sentence imposed in 1993, for escaping from federal custody. The announcement was made today by U.S Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PREBERR RAMOS-PALMA, age 24, was charged yesterday in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) & (b)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Newark, New Jersey and three residents of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, each have been sentenced in federal court to nine months of incarceration and three years of supervised release on their convictions for Contempt of Court, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Unidentified Male Bank Robbery Suspect Known as Seasoned Bandit Sought by Law Enforcement Partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Galena Biopharma Inc. will pay more than $7.55 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe its fentanyl-based drug Abstral, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced today. The allegations arose from a whistleblower suit filed under the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former information technology official with the Department of Commerce was sentenced today to 4 years in prison and ordered to forfeit approximately $224,500 for conspiracy to pay and receive bribes, and acceptance of bribes by a public official.
