News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Maria Miguelina Lara Lara, a/k/a Maribel Santiago-Ramos, a/k/a La Cuna, a/k/a Miguelina, 33, of the Dominican Republic was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, at 12:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed this week charges 34 alleged members of the Latin Kings street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered its rivals and violently protected its drug-dealing territories in Chicago and the suburbs.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The leaders of the House and Senate health committees today released a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) animal drug and generic animal drug user fee agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 27-year-old man has been sent to federal prison for his participation in a smuggling scheme that involved dangerous and life-threatening conditions, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Zachery Steven Blizzard pleaded guilty Sept. 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Ashak Victor Nasief Wesa to 150 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a synthetic marijuana distribution scheme based in San Antonio, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 20 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man was sentenced today to eight years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for receiving images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anna May Martin, of Westover, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: The leaders of the Senate and House health committees today released a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) animal drug and generic animal drug user fee agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: 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 Corrections (“DOC") as part of a narcotics smuggling conspiracy. The defendants’ arraignment is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Admitted he transferred images from phones confiscated from students, to his personal thumb drive, without their consent or knowledge and shared the images on a Russian website.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Javier Giovanni Araujo, 34, of Austin, Texas, and Garrett Alexander Mack, 29, of Dallas, Texas, were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to lengthy prison sentences for child pornography offenses, announced Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The leaders of the House and Senate health committees today released a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) animal drug and generic animal drug user fee agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nathaniel P. Lorenz, age 46, of Holley, New York, was arraigned today on charges that he submitted fake invoices to the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in order to conceal that he was not buying the materials needed to perform contracts for which his company was ultimately paid more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed this week charges 34 alleged members of the Latin Kings street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered its rivals and violently protected its drug-dealing territories in Chicago and the suburbs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Today, House Democrats announced a bold, new, comprehensive infrastructure plan - A Better Deal to Rebuild America. This historic $1 trillion federal investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure is five times larger than President Trump’s rumored plan and will create more than 16 million jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to dealing cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON – Efforts by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) to ensure a reliable supply of a vital medical isotope have paved the way for today’s announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the approval of the first domestically-produced, non-uranium based molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, at 12:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services."
