News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a White River, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Chad Theodore Dillon (45, Okaloosa County) to 40 years in federal prison for online enticement of a child to engage in sexual activity. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the 2006 Ford F-150 truck he had used to meet a victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Ways and Means Announces Markup. September 5, 2017 - Markup - Press Releases. WHAT: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup. WHERE: 1100 Longworth House Office Building. WHEN: Thursday, September 7, at 2:00 PM ET. Live stream available at waysandmeans.house.gov/live. The Committee will consider the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Boston street gang, Columbia Point Dawgs, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for trafficking oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maureen S. Walck, 72 of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to failure to provide lead paint hazard warning notice, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy. The charge carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of $100,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Larry Norton, age 66, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Theresa Springmann for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 1 kilogram or more of heroin. He was found guilty after a 6-day jury trial in May of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault of an Intimate Partner by Strangulation, Child Abuse, and Felon In Possession of a Firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “The Broadcast Incentive Auction: Update on Repacking Opportunities and Challenges"
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closely monitors forecasted hurricanes and severe weather events and prepares FAA facilities and equipment to withstand storm damage. We prepare and protect air traffic control facilities along the projected storm path so we can quickly resume operations after the hurricane passes. Enabling flights to resume quickly is critical to support disaster relief efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former owner of a Boston forensic accounting firm pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to understating his income by hundreds of thousands of dollars on his personal income tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - Crater Lake National Park, in partnership with Discover Klamath, will host the fifth annual Ride the Rim days on September 9 and 16, 2016. On these consecutive Saturdays, East Rim Drive from North Junction to Park Headquarters will be closed to motorized vehicles from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to allow for nonmotorized recreation including biking, hiking, and running.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today gave the following statement during the hearing of H.Res. 488, a resolution of inquiry regarding Jeff Sessions' recusal and James Comey firing
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., man, Jaime Breckenridge, 33, of the 2200 Block of S. First Street, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Urbana on Sept. 13, 2017, for arraignment on charges of distribution and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the opportunities and challenges of the FCC’s spectrum repack process following the Broadcast Incentive Auction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Ashley Watson, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 48 months of imprisonment for her conviction on synthetic cannabinoids trafficking charges. Watson will be on supervised release for five years after completing her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bobbie Jo Phillips, of Morgantown, West Virginia, pled guilty today to an oxycodone and cocaine distribution charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Anthony Blevins, 43, Windsor, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to two years of probation for bribery of a public official. Blevins, formerly a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wis., pleaded guilty to this charge on June 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Rantoul, Ill., man, Robert A. Decker, 56, of the 400 Block of S. Steffler Street, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Urbana on Sept. 8, 2017, for arraignment on charges of distribution of child pornography and possession of prepubescent child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Supporting Tomorrow’s Health Providers: Examining Workforce Programs under the Public Health Service Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A South Orange, New Jersey, man today admitted his participation in the September 2015 armed robbery of a club in Passaic, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
