News from February 2018
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Mehlek Dawveed, age 51, of Olney, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud stemming from the filing of fraudulent tax returns, in which he received one fraudulent refund of more than $970,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is demanding answers on the use by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of a technology that has been rife with problems, including the approval of 200 citizenship applications without proper background checks and the erroneous issuance of 20,000 green cards. Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joined McCaskill in her inquiry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced s man and woman from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were charged today with conspiring to distribute heroin pills that were made to look like 30-milligram tablets of Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old federal prison inmate has been indicted for escaping from prison and returning with contraband announced U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will host eight public scoping meetings in the process to consider amending three land use plans that underlie the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. The BLM invites members of the public to attend meetings at the following dates and locations:.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - Improvements are being made at the Bureau of Land Management’s Sandy Ridge Trailhead, including new asphalt to help expand the parking area, which will provide additional parking spaces, some with tailgate bump-outs. All trails will remain open during construction activities. This improvement...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today on the Senate floor urged his colleagues to support the Bipartisan Budget Act. In addition to keeping the government open and providing much-needed resources for the nation’s troops, the package includes numerous longstanding Finance Committee priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Eddie Lee Hunt, 48, of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 14 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release and a $1,500 fine for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Henry T. Little-Proctor a/k/a "Bundles", of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison as a result of his conviction on multiple charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Woodrow Pressey, Jr. (47, Bradenton) guilty of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and possessing five firearms and several rounds of ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that CHRISTOPHER HAMLETT, also known as “Cadi" and “Cadillac Black," 24, of Hartford, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Two fraud conspirators have entered guilty pleas to participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy that fraudulently obtained mortgage loans to purchase homes in Houston and Surfside, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), issued the following statement after President Trump announced his intent to nominate Chuck Rettig to serve as IRS Commissioner.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI and its local partners are seeking information from the public to help solve the murder of Fabian Dailey, 50, of Moss Point, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Montecito resident has been arrested pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment that accuses him of running two fraudulent investment schemes and violating a court order prohibiting him from selling securities.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House voted to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that includes reforms to improve the Medicare program and extend specific Medicare policies, as well as provisions that will strengthen families and communities all across the country...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released a Democratic staff report that found there are significant gaps in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) drug and alcohol testing program and highlighted the risk...
