News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Criminal Charges Filed in Los Angeles and Alaska in Conjunction with Seizures Of 15 Websites Offering DDoS-For-Hire Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Members of the House Ways and Means Committee have introduced a series of health care bills. These initiatives aim to cut excessive red tape and administrative burdens, increase access to care in rural areas, and improve the integrity of the Medicare program. This effort is part of the Ways and Means Medicare Red Tape Relief Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Falsely Claimed Millions in Revenue from Contracts with Foreign Countries.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: Summary:USDA is renewing the charter for the National Poultry Improvement Plan’s General Conference Committee for another two years. NPIP is a cooperative Federal-State-Industry program for controlling certain poultry diseases. View the action here
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Courtney Webster, 34, of Cincinnati; Jonathan Stanley, 34, of Cincinnati; Keith Johnson, 35, of Alexandria, Kentucky; and Michael Boone, 45, of Newport, Kentucky, were sentenced this week, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiring to distribute heroin. On Tuesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANKIE BEQIRAJ was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, oxycodone, and alprazolam in the Bronx and Westchester. BEQIRAJ personally distributed heroin...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the European Union abandoned proposed plans for a new tax on digital services...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN -Michael Beamish, 27, of Obion County has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for solicitation and enticement of a minor for sexual activity. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist sentenced Tramain Hill to 130 months in federal prison for committing an interstate cell phone store robbery with three other people. Hill was also ordered to repay $42,129.44 in restitution and serve 3 years under court supervision following release from prison.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government is announcing that a group of Chinese cyber actors, known publicly as APT 10, is carrying out a campaign of cyber-enabled theft targeting global managed service providers, cloud service providers, and their clients. APT 10 is operating on behalf of the Chinese...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Virgin Islands Police Department Achieves Substantial Compliance With Policing Consent Decree.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed legislation to redesign the Internal Revenue Service...
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has posted a notice in the Federal Register soliciting qualified candidates to serve on the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC). The committee provides an open venue for the FAA and stakeholders to identify and recommend consensus-based resolutions for issues related to integration of unmanned aircraft (UAS) into the National Airspace System.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - James A. Wolfe, 58, of Ellicott City, Maryland, the former Director of Security for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), was sentenced today to two months in prison for making a false statement to the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified national security information.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two members of the Canta Ranas Organization, a Santa Fe Springs-based criminal enterprise linked to the Mexican Mafia, have been found guilty by a jury of multiple federal offenses, including racketeering, narcotics and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases Information on Human Remains Recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to nine years’ in prison, followed by six years’ supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Isaiah Davis, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration for drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
