News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - Three key players in a drug distribution ring that spanned seven counties in Washington State were sentenced late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to long prison terms. The leader of the drug distribution ring Baltazar Reyes-Garcia 45, of Camano Island, WA, was sentenced to 18 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotic laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to discuss the nation’s preparedness and response capabilities to public health threats. This was the first in a series of hearings to discuss the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Bryan Fish, age 23, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for making false declarations before a federal grand jury investigating an arson that killed four people in Schenectady.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced today that on January 8, 2018, Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Darwin Snyder, age 50, of Winnebago, Nebraska for his conviction for theft from an Indian gaming establishment. Snyder was sentenced to five years of probation and 150 hours of community service. He was further ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $36,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joseph Woloszyn, 32, of Sacramento, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment last Thursday charging him with obstruction of justice and perjury, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
Release: JAMAICA, N.Y. - A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man was arrested after a Transportation Security Administration officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport uncovered four handguns and a stash of ammunition artfully concealed inside a speaker case in checked luggage Thursday, Jan. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: OMAHA - Matt Barden, Association Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha District Office, today announced that Roberto Ochoa Cantu, 44, of Alamo, Texas, was sentenced to 126 months in prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for interstate transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BERNARD HARRIS, 33, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Bryan Fish, age 23, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for making false declarations before a federal grand jury investigating an arson that killed four people in Schenectady.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Carol Jean Hazer was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison after pleading guilty to running an illegal gambling business and filing false tax returns that failed to list her income from the gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of “H.R. 4170, the “ Disclosing Foreign Influence Act."
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security released a report indicating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed over 1,500 illegal immigrants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Devaughn Salazar, a/k/a “Snake," 41, of Elmira, NY, of knowingly possessing with intent to distribute and distributing cocaine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles clerk was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to produce false identification documents.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released a draft environmental document for public review to renew a 5-year non-Central Valley Project Warren Act contract for the Sacramento Suburban Water District. Public comments on the draft document are due Feb. 1.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nomination of Alex Azar to serve as the Department of Health And Human Services (HHS) Secretary by a vote of 15 to 12.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has filed a provisional patent application for a microflow measurement system, about the size of a nickel, that can track the movement of extremely tiny amounts of liquids-as small as nanoliters (nL, billionth of a liter) per minute. If water were flowing at that rate from a 1-liter bottle of water, it would take about 200 years to drain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Michael Litz, 63, of Ladue, pled guilty today to assisting in an unlawful insider loan scheme at Excel Bank. He appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig. Sentencing is scheduled for April 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Impacted 17,000 Victims.
