News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A meat processor that supplied Southern California grocery chains, the company’s owner and a plant manager have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the sale of “misbranded" beef, pork and poultry products that illegally bore the official USDA mark and falsely indicated the meats had been inspected by federal authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former law firm office manager has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $827,020.39 in restitution on his conviction of one count of bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Loaded assault rifle and $150,000 found in local residence which served as hub for meth trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYEVHON KING, also known as “Twin," 31, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 121 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting. At the business meeting, the committee advanced the following items...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - In advancing the Administration's goals of promoting America’s energy independence and supporting infrastructure needs, the Bureau of Land Management announced today the approval of a transmission line and water pipeline project associated with the licensed Eagle Crest Energy Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Project in Riverside County.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a commemoration event on Friday, Aug. 3, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. The program will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Dedication Point and will include guest speakers Tyler Nelson and Steve Stuebner, musical performances by Water for Life and The Great Turtle, and a plaque ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Aggravated Sexual Abuse, and Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former registered investment advisor was arrested today on charges stemming from an investment fraud targeting elderly investors, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri Lydon stated today that John Scott Jarrett, age 46, of Summerville, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Wire Fraud and Identity Theft. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Jarrett to 60 months imprisonment and 3 years Supervised Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that JUSTIN D. PERRY, age 34, of Lilbourn, Missouri, was sentenced to 147 months on one felony count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, one felony count of Attempted Carjacking and one felony count of Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence. He appeared before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters to nine contract pharmacies that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program), requesting information about their participation in the program.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 5554, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), by unanimous consent yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging STEVEN RICHARD WISETH, 35, a Thief River Falls chiropractor, with six counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. WISETH made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 5554, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), by unanimous consent yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to vote on the nominations of Justin Muzinich to be deputy secretary of the Treasury and Michael Desmond to be chief counsel at IRS. And colleagues, particularly on the Muzinich nomination, the debate changed completely with the breaking news from Treasury on Monday night.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician MUSTAK Y. VAID was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to 18 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New York State Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Darren Norris, 52, of Camden, Alabama, was sentenced this morning to 37 months’ imprisonment on gun charges. Court documents show that Norris was driving a truck pulling a trailer with no lights and no tag...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - L.C. Hatfield, Jr., 43, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 280 grams of cocaine base ("crack") and more than 500 grams of a detectible amount of cocaine hydrochloride, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith.
