News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Jason A. Richard, age 42, of Walla Walla, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2017, to embezzling labor union funds. United States District Judge Salvador...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced that Committee Staff Director Matt Sturges is leaving the Committee staff to join the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) as the Deputy Administrator. In addition, Shuster announced the promotions of Chris Vieson to the position of Staff Director for the Committee, and Geoff Gosselin to the position of Deputy Staff Director.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Debbie Seright, 52, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information From a Bank Robbery in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Kevin Heiting, age 30, of Silver Spring, Maryland today to 20 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography and other admitted conduct detailed in his plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BOISE - A Boise federal grand jury has indicted four current correctional officers employed by the Idaho Department of Correction (“IDOC"), U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. In another case, the grand jury indicted a former IDOC correctional officer, a former IDOC inmate and the inmate’s associate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lafayette woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years and four months in prison for stealing almost $1.5 million from a Broussard oilfield related company.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Longgrear, 53, of Jackson, and son, Zachary Longgrear, 29, of Madison, both waived appearance for their arraignments before U.S. Magistrate Judge F. Keith Ball after having been recently indicted and charged with rolling back the odometers of multiple high mileage vehicles and selling...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury convicted former U.S. Representative Stephen E. Stockman for orchestrating a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations and the individuals who ran those foundations to illegally finance Stockman’s campaigns for public office and to pay for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: I rise in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 2, which proposes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Specifically, the bill prohibits total outlays from exceeding total receipts for each fiscal year unless a three-fifths supermajority of the total membership of each House of Congress votes to override the prohibition. The bill also requires a three-fifths supermajority of each Chamber in order to raise the federal debt limit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HELENA - Ryan Frank Cervantes, a 27-year-old resident of Livingston, Montana, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison followed by 10 years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute. U.S. Senior District Judge Charles C. Lovell handed down the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) Executive Committee (EC) will host a meeting on Monday, April 30, 2018, 10 a.m., at the Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. Third St., Rawlins, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant Failed to Pay Medicare, Social Security, and Federal Income Taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement today on the introduction of the 2018 farm bill, which includes forest management provisions that mirror H.R. 2936, the “Resilient Federal Forests Act," which passed the Committee and the House with bipartisan support.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Rodney Phillip Aird, age 50, of Seminole, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment, and 4 years supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Luis J. Santiago, Special Agent in Charge, United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Region; Alfredo Escanio, Major/Regional Commander, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation...
