News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, former New York City Police Department officer Eduardo Cornejo was sentenced to 66 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and sex offender registration, following his Sept. 21, 2016 guilty plea to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. Cornejo was ordered to pay $5,000 in forfeiture. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that alleges the former head of Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh, Inc. paid bribes to former IT executives at Commonwealth Bank of Australia to approve millions of dollars in contracts that inflated ServiceMesh revenues and fraudulently caused Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to pay a nearly $100 million incentive bonus as part of CSC’s purchase of the cloud software company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - A Lexington man and two codefendants were sentenced on Sept. 26, 2017, for the theft of firearms from a registered firearms dealer, announced Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Emergency responders at the Department of Energy (DOE) have joined with FEMA and the federal community, the governments of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and industry partners in response and power restoration efforts from Hurricane Maria.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today delivered a statement at a Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific hearing entitled “Burma’s Brutal Campaign Against the Rohingya.".
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment, unsealed today, charging 15 defendants with several federal drug trafficking offenses. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Seattle Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Receives $451,201.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Blimpie Matches $10,000 Reward for Missing Student in Virginia Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEDRICK KEELEN, a/k/a “Roy," age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act “RICO" as well as drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy, and murder charges. U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced KEELEN to serve life plus 10 years.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) issuing a Request for Information (RFI) from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Charting a course ahead for the conservation and sustainable farming of freshwater and marine species is a chief focus of the first State of the World's Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ) report will contain smaller subsections from 89 contributing countries, including the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: The word “pivot" is overused in our political discourse. Case in point: I’ve heard a lot about the president and Congress’ recent “pivot" to tax reform, as though the effort is only now beginning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of KENNETH FRANK HARYCKI, 54, to a year and a day in prison for his involvement in a tax conspiracy. HARYCKI, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States in the ascertainment and collection of taxes on Jan. 15, 2015, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Michael J. Baxter, 49, of Grand Ridge, Florida, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Panama City after a federal grand jury returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging him with falsifying records and depriving an inmate of his constitutional rights. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an illegal alien in possession of a rifle and ammunition.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on reports that President Trump expressed interest in working with Democrats on health care legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, 35-year-old Bandido Outlaw Motorcycle Organization (OMO) San Antonio Centro Chapter member Norberto Serna, Jr. (aka “Hammer") of San Antonio pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection with the murder of Hells Angel Anthony Benesh in 2006 announced United States Attorney Richard...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez sentenced 41-year-old Corey Lee Dorsey to 151 months in federal prison followed by 25 years of supervised release for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two East Texas men were sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
