News from January 2018
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following statement in response to the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission’s order to revoke the registration of independent news website Rappler...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining three bills that seek to modernize the nation’s energy laws for the 21st century. Members received feedback from a panel of witnesses on legislation that would streamline the approval process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal criminal complaint charging JOSEPH SEAN ANTHONY PORTER, 25, with the kidnapping of an Edina woman. PORTER is currently in custody in Little Rock, Arkansas and will make an initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER CERVINO, a/k/a “Smitty," was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and SHEIK F. KHAN, a/k/a “Abida Khan," was sentenced to 53 months in prison for their roles in a securities fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Aaron Pelchat, 36, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Shot a Metrobus Passenger in March 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Gangster Disciple member was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sabrina Feve (619) 546-6786.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Michael Anaya-Otero, 21, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, charging him with production of child pornography and interstate travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man who supplied narcotics to members of the Boston street gang Columbia Point Dawgs (CPD) was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing on “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Shareef Williams and Dylon David Alextro Downer were sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for conspiring to distribute and distributing marijuana. Williams was also sentenced for money laundering. United...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing on “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Chugiak man was sentenced for emailing threats to a local Smithsonian Institution employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Coalition Against Insurance Fraud awards Prosecutor of the Year citations to federal attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Culpeper man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison today for sex with a minor and production of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the announcement that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded critical Medicaid guidance...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At a hearing of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee moments ago, Walter Cruickshank, acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), said Florida is not off the table for offshore drilling activities, contradicting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s tweeted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTONIO GONZALEZ, also known as “Bienve," 47, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Timothy C. Lynch and Joel L. Violanti, who are handling the case, stated that on Aug. 28, 2014, a community member advised the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the defendant spoke about violent jihad to various people in the Lackawanna community and it was common for Nagi to get into verbal complaints over his jihadi beliefs.
