News from August 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FERNANDO PEREZ-YOK age 26, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegally re-entering the United States in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant JOSEPH B. PANGELINAN JR. was sentenced by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, District Court of Guam, for the crime of Receipt of Child Pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a regulatory proposal which includes policies to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jay’Von Flemming, 25, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery. Flemming was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Terry Lee Reddix, 43, of Vancleave, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 360 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Vancleave, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - TSA’s top priority is to protect the nation’s transportation system. When securing the homeland, managing operations, assessing risks, measuring security effectiveness, and analyzing efficiencies is a routine and critical part of the process. TSA’s budget request for FY2020 is still in development...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Small businesses in the research and development domain will have the opportunity to engage with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program representatives beginning Aug. 20, in the final leg of a National Road Tour sponsored by the Small Business Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Commissioner Berryhill:. We are writing to follow up on yesterday’s Social Security Subcommittee hearing to make clear that the Social Security Administration should not proceed with any plans to reinstate reconsideration until a Senate-confirmed Commissioner is in place. Reinstating reconsideration...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Holly C. Jenkins, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: In Midland today, former Presidio County Precinct 3 Commissioner Lorenzo Padilla Hernandez admitted to defrauding the citizens of Presidio County by taking bribes while in office in return for his support and vote on a County contract, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The leader of a ring that staged a series of daytime smash-and-grab robberies at Southern California jewelry stores that netted the thieves $6 million worth of Rolex and other high-end watches was sentenced today to 55 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Donald Stepp, age 51, of Middle River, Maryland, today to five years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, and other controlled dangerous substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kassandra Mattox, age 25, of Tobyhanna, Monroe County, pleaded guilty on Aug. 1, 2018, before United States District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer in connection with the purchase of multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: In Midland today, former Presidio County Precinct 3 Commissioner Lorenzo Padilla Hernandez admitted to defrauding the citizens of Presidio County by taking bribes while in office in return for his support and vote on a County contract, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with the extension of the Silver Line, also known as Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kassandra Mattox, age 25, of Tobyhanna, Monroe County, pleaded guilty on Aug. 1, 2018, before United States District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer in connection with the purchase of multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH- Two Allegheny County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and mail theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: WOODBURY, GA-Ricardo Grave de Peralta, acting special agent in charge (A/SAC) of the FBI Atlanta Field Office, announces the arrest of two more suspects in a violent takeover-style bank robbery that occurred on June 28, 2018.
