News from February 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Charles Rettig to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Arturo Tellez-Berrelleza, 32, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 21 months’ imprisonment. Tellez-Berrelleza, who previously pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking offense, is the final defendant to be sentenced in a multi-agency investigation into a marijuana smuggling network.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: They are among the 275 people rescued within the United States and its surrounding waters with the help of NOAA satellites last year. Of the 275 rescues, 186 were in water, 15 were from aviation incidents and 74 were on land using personal locator beacons, or PLBs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy E. Billups, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing cocaine near a playground, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Adams Amen, 32, a citizen of Ghana, who resides in Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Antonio Yazzie, 25, of Lukachukai, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 46 months in prison followed by a term of 3 years of supervised release. Yazzie had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
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 Ways and Means Committee Republicans concluded their annual retreat to lay out their policy agenda for 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson has sentenced DERRICK SHELBIA, age 40, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve 20 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. SHELBIA will also be required to serve a five-year term of supervised release upon his release from prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) released the following statements after the Committee’s bipartisan meeting with United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A six-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging seven defendants with conspiring to bribe correction officers employed by the New York City Department of (DOC) as part of a narcotics smuggling conspiracy. The defendants’ arraignment is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $2.75 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects. Future amounts are subject to congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Marcos Antonio Lopez, age 27, of Doraville, Georgia, pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years or more than life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 15, to examine the administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The hearing will take place at 9 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 215.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Two Costa Rican Residents Found Guilty for Roles in $10 Million International Telemarketing Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOISE - On Monday a federal jury convicted Eric Courtney Hunter, 38, of Victorville, California, of two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Trial started last Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, and lasted until Monday, February 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Pedro Carrasco, Jr., a 35 year-old resident of Billings, Montana, was sentenced to 168 months in prison, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Carrasco was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: DENVER - As part of an ongoing investigation, eight individuals pled guilty this week to various charges involving funds embezzled from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Calvin A. Shivers, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: DENVER - As part of an ongoing investigation, eight individuals pled guilty this week to various charges involving funds embezzled from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Calvin A. Shivers, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Laurence Cadogan, age 33, of Stroudsburg, pleaded guilty today to charges of heroin trafficking and unlawfully possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division; Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley; Boston Police Superintendent in Chief William Gross; Braintree Police Chief Paul Shastany and Randolph Police Chief William Pace announced the results of Operation High Hopes, one of the longest, most far-reaching, and most successful state wiretap investigations in Massachusetts history.
