News from February 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Peter DeFazio of Oregon, Ranking Member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, DeFazio denounced President Trump’s harmful plan to privatize critical government functions and create windfalls...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today that the Northern District of Texas collected $350,706,916.75 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $322,529,436.78 was collected in criminal actions and $28,177,479.97 was collected in civil actions.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
Release: CHARLESTON, WV. - A Charleston, West Virginia, man was cited by police after a Transportation Security Administration officer at Yeager Airport (CRW) spotted a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag at the airport checkpoint this morning.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement after House passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Edd Tawon Payne, 33, of Tulsa, pleaded guilty to bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery, at a hearing before District Judge Claire V. Eagan, on February 8, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Federal Communications Commission: Budget and Oversight."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing a Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact to disclose potential environmental effects and solicit public comments associated with five-year contracts for conveying and exchanging non-project water through Klamath Project facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Brian A. Mudd, 60, of Ruma, IL, was recently sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James LaRock, II, 43, Seneca Falls, NY, who was convicted of filing a false tax return, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $107,000 by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposals for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at 10:00 am in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Committee Continues Efforts to Prevent Opioid Epidemic from Harming More Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jelani Faulk, 21, Chicago, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 42 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Faulk pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 13, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -United States District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Andrew Dean Bailey, age 32, of Germantown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) joined with Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) to introduce H.R. 4979. This bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Three individuals were indicted in the Eastern District of New York for their alleged roles in a multi-year visa fraud scheme that brought Armenian citizens into the United States for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Two individuals were found guilty yesterday for their roles in a $10 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: The Antitrust Division is pleased to announce the establishment of the Jackson-Nash Address, and to announce that Professor Alvin Roth, the McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will be the inaugural speaker. Professor Roth is the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics for the theory ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores of the Northern District of Oklahoma. Thaddus Caves, 40, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge John E. Dowdell. Sentencing is set for May 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Two New Orleans, Louisiana-area psychiatrists and a third individual were charged in an indictment filed today for their alleged participation in a health care kickback scheme. The two psychiatrists were also charged for their roles in a home health care fraud scheme.
