News from January 2018
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: November 2017 Passenger Airline Employment Data
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), and House Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) today introduced the Transition Team Ethics Improvement Act in the Senate and the House to enhance the ethics requirements that govern presidential transitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A former corrections officer at the Federal Corrections Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, Latoya Sebree, 37, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for accepting bribes from inmates, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 17, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault and firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Ronald...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of production of child pornography in a case led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and law enforcement authorities in Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Today, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the House Judiciary Committee - led by CBC Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02) and Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10) respectively - introduced a resolution to censure President Trump for the racist “shithole" comments he made about Haiti and African countries during a bipartisan Jan. 11, 2018, meeting on American immigration policy. The resolution currently has nearly 150 Democratic co-sponsors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Audie Cruz-De Los Santos, 40, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve an additional 24 months in federal for assaulting another inmate with a box cutter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact of a Minor by Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah-As part of its mission to manage public lands for multiple uses, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be removing excess wild horses from areas within and outside the Bible Springs Complex in Iron and Beaver counties beginning Jan. 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Karon Dawson (38, Ocala) to eight years and eight months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Brian Oliver, age 41, of Valparaiso, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge James T. Moody. Oliver was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment, and 2 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Cory Danis, 29, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeffrey Miles Hayes, 55, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 33 years in prison, to be followed by 25 years of supervised release for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: A Detroit, Michigan-area doctor was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a $1.7 million health care fraud scheme that involved billing Medicare for physician home visits that were medically unnecessary and/or were billed under unwarranted treatment codes that resulted in inappropriately high payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kristina Gross, age 37, of Wynantskill, New York, pled guilty today to misusing the names of the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a misdemeanor offense.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) today introduced H.R. 4819, the Defending Economic Livelihoods and Threatened Animals (DELTA) Act. The bipartisan bill promotes sustainable economic development...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Monroe city postal carrier assistant pleaded guilty to taking parcels containing prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four women appeared in federal court today to face charges of running an oxycodone distribution conspiracy in Flemington, New Jersey, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- On Jan. 16, 2018, Robert William Simet, age 64, of Omaha, Nebraska appeared before United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt and pleaded guilty to Influencing or Retaliating against a Federal Official, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Simet will be sentenced by District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey on May 23, 2018, at 2:30 p.m. at the Federal Courthouse in Council Bluffs.