News from January 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), chairman of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, and every Republican member of the EPW committee, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt in support of the agency's repeal of the Obama administration's burdensome Clean Power Plan regulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ------- In recognition of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, United States Attorney Beth Drake provides the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROBERT RICKS, age 36, of New Orleans, was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Bureau of Prisons by Honorable Judge Carl J. Barbier today after being convicted in a two day trial for his role in conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, possessing heroin and crack with the intent to distribute, possessing a gun in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and nine other Finance Committee Democrats urged the president today to direct agency heads responsible for trade policy to follow transparency rules in trade negotiations and release trade reports to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 10, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against two defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today announced that it will markup three bills on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced a hearing for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rod Hunt, 56, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 154 months in federal prison for bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Defendants Arrested During Train Stopover at Union Station.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today announced that it will markup three bills on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- On Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, Kelvin Carnell Golden, 32, of Evergreen, Alabama, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for armed robbery, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to 20 years in prison, Golden will be subject to 5 years of supervised release when his sentence is complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal judge today sentenced the former owner of Pacific Hospital in Long Beach to 63 months in prison for overseeing a 15-year-long health care fraud scheme that involved more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks paid to doctors and other medical professionals in exchange for referring thousands of patients who received spinal surgeries.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - A Georgia man was arrested at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) yesterday (Jan. 11) after a Transportation Security Administration officer caught him trying to bring a loaded handgun past the security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Michael Christopher Estes, 46, formerly of Tazewell, Tennessee, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell today and pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of explosive material, in connection with the October 2017 incident at the Asheville Regional Airport, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement today on the Treasury Department’s release of updated tax withholding tables reflecting the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - David Aaron Smith-Garcia, also known as David Garland Atwood II, 34, of Vicksburg, was sentenced on Dec. 21, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to serve an additional six years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for violating the terms of his supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
