News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the announcement by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) that he will retire from the House at the conclusion of the 115th Congress...
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee event...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The two leaders of the Detroit branch of the Rollin 60s Crips street gang were sentenced this morning for their roles in gang-related murders, shootings, and drug distribution. Jerome Hamilton and Darriyon Mills’s sentences follow their guilty pleas to RICO conspiracy and firearm charges and are the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston-area man has been ordered to federal prison for perpetrating a scheme that caused a loss of more than $4 million to several local banks, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Gregory Roberson, 65, of Missouri City, pleaded guilty June 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - The owner of an Orlando, Florida-area pharmacy, a medical doctor and a patient recruiter were convicted today for their role in a kickback scheme involving pain and scar creams that resulted in the payment of approximately $4.3 million in false and fraudulent claims to TRICARE. TRICARE provides coverage for active duty military and their families, as well as retired veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Robert Monroe Wilson III, age 48, of Baxter Springs, Kansas, was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for Destruction Of Government Property, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Three Southern California men have been indicted on federal mail fraud charges that allege they solicited homeowners on the verge of foreclosure with bogus promises of loan modifications with interest rates as low as 2 percent.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- On Dec. 4, 2017, President Donald Trump issued Proclamation 9681 modifying the boundary of the Bears Ears National Monument to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of important objects of historic and scientific interest. This action is part of a larger effort...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 11, 2018, the corporate owner of the now shuttered Grede foundry located in Berlin, Wisconsin, paid a maximum fine of $200,000 and pled guilty to a criminal violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 7413(c)(4), a provision of the Clean Air Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Boise District Resource Advisory Council, demonstrating that partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on Jan. 30, 2018 at 3948 Development Ave., Boise, ID, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding the administration’s announcement on the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Tullos man pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a homemade silencer that he had not registered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dustin Blake Otwell, 30, of Gainesville, Ga., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 299 days in prison followed by five years of supervised release for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Otwell will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Nathan Alexander Drury, 39, of Chico, pleaded guilty today to Production of Child Pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: On Jan. 12, 2018, Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Roberto Ochoa Cantu, age 44 of Alamo, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and six months (126 months) in prison for distribution of, and possession with intent to distribute, methamphetamine and five years (60 months) for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The two leaders of the Detroit branch of the Rollin 60s Crips street gang were sentenced this morning for their roles in gang-related murders, shootings, and drug distribution. Jerome Hamilton and Darriyon Mills’s sentences follow their guilty pleas to RICO conspiracy and firearm charges and are the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Two treatment center owners pled guilty for their participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Barry Romero, 38, of Belen, N.M, pled guilty today in Albuquerque, N.M., to unlawfully possessing body armor and Oxycodone trafficking. Romero’s plea agreement recommends a 96-month term of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
