News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - James Hileman, age 29, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: HINDS COUNTY, MS - On Sept. 20, 2017, at approximately 6:03 pm, the Natchez Trace Parkway Communications Center received notification of a single motor vehicle collision near Raymond, Mississippi (milepost 77.9). U.S. Park Rangers and Hinds County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that a Charlotte area jeweler has been indicted on fraud charges in connection with a $3.5 million investment scheme involving jewelry, precious metals and gemstones. A federal grand jury returned the 18-count indictment against Benjamin...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price today requesting the agency grant additional leeway for the upcoming open enrollment seasons for both Medicare and Marketplace Enrollment due to the historic damage inflicted on a number of states and territories over the past few weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price today requesting the agency grant additional leeway for the upcoming open enrollment seasons for both Medicare and Marketplace Enrollment due to the historic damage inflicted on a number of states and territories over the past few weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Gerard Anthony Brady, a Fort Lauderdale Police Department employee has been charged in federal court with stealing from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for violating the Clean Air Act by failing to remove asbestos prior to demolishing a former factory in Cleveland, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: DETROIT - A Jordanian national recently stripped of her U.S. citizenship, who was convicted in Israel for participating in a deadly terrorist bombing, was deported Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removals Operations (ERO). The removal marks the culmination of a multiyear probe by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Christopher Lee DeLeon of Allen, Texas, who was one of several tax preparers at Tax Genius in Garland, Texas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney and pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent tax return, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Kyle Braga, 28, of Standish, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on April 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tosh Babu, 33, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two and a half years in prison for conspiracy to submit false claims, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Judge Nunley also ordered Babu to pay $94,451 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price today requesting the agency grant additional leeway for the upcoming open enrollment seasons for both Medicare and Marketplace Enrollment due to the historic damage inflicted on a number of states and territories over the past few weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A former president of United Auto Workers Local 2419, in Danville, Ill., Bob Buford, was sentenced today to a term of 21 months in federal prison for mail fraud related to embezzling union funds. Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid sentenced Buford, 54, of the 100 block of Shasta...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bonnie Bishop of Bloomery, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: The decommissioned Boiling Nuclear Superheater (BONUS) reactor, located northwest of Rincón, Puerto Rico, was not significantly impacted by the winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Connor Dempsey, 20, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to use and maintain a drug-involved premises, was sentenced to three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Effective immediately, the burn ban on lands in Skagit and Whatcom counties within North Cascades National Park Service Complex is lifted. This includes all National Park Service lands and campgrounds along State Route 20, the Ross Lake area, west of Rainy Pass, and north of Park Creek Pass and Cascade Pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a New Orleans man pleaded guilty Tuesday to directing employees to discharge a pollutant into a canal that feeds the Vermilion River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Albert Larry Harris, Jr. (27, Lake County) with two counts of receipt of a bribe by a public official. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison on each count.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Dana Baiocco to be Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
