News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: One Distribution Network Allegedly Extended to Tennessee and South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno parolee who posed online as a teenage boy and enticed about a dozen girls to send him sexually explicit photos was sentenced in federal court today to 22 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Preston Stewart, a/k/a “Pusha," 35, of Wilmington, was sentenced to five years’ incarceration by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark following convictions for two counts of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal jury convicted 30-year-old Chimene Hamilton Onyeri on federal charges related to his leadership role in carrying out fraud and racketeering schemes that involved the attempted capital murder of State District Court Judge Julie Kocurek in November of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Defendants compelled the unpaid domestic labor and services of a young, West African girl in their home for over 16 years until neighbors helped her escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LURLYN A. WINCHESTER, a former Justice for the Town Court of Monroe, pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy, in federal court in White Plains, on charges that she made...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Attempted Murder of a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - P&S Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy in Kingsport, Tennessee, and Lowell Grizzle, the pharmacy owner and a licensed pharmacist, have agreed to pay the United States $100,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations that P&S Pharmacy and Grizzle violated the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 25-year-old man from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to transport aliens which resulted in death, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Omar Gonzalez-Herrera pleaded guilty on Dec. 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Former Employee of U.S. Government Contractor in Afghanistan Pleads Guilty to Foreign Transportation of Approximately $104,000 in Stolen Money.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “The Fiscal Year 2019 Environmental Protection Agency Budget:"
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “The Fiscal Year 2019 Environmental Protection Agency Budget:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Samuel Lombardo, age 53, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was convicted on April 24, 2018, on drug trafficking and firearms charges after a two-day jury trial held before United States District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico, as well as the protected areas of Maderas del Carmen, Ocampo, and Cañon de Santa Elena, will change hours of operation beginning May 13, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today to examine the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), whether its process for reviewing investments needs an update, and the Foreign Investment Risk Review and Modernization Act (H.R. 4311).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh-area woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a 2014 shooting in Chelsea and a 2015 conspiracy to kill a suspected cooperating witness.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “The Fiscal Year 2019 Environmental Protection Agency Budget:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of nine people have been charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to embezzle $3.4 from the Beck Group in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of all five Federal Trade Commissioners.
