News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today the results of the January 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Derrious Emadrick Dillon, 37, of McComb, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Regional Special Agent in Charge Marlies Gonzalez of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: With Possession of Child Pornography. HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Christopher Raciti, age 48, formerly of Saint John, Indiana, was charged by Information with possession of child pornography. According to documents filed...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement at a full Committee hearing on sanctions and financial pressure as tools of national security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Ohio Computer Programmer Indicted for Infecting Thousands of Computers with Malicious Software and Gaining Access to Victims’ Communications and Personal Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Mon Valley men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a robbery at a McDonald’s restaurant, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee advanced the Streamlining Environmental Approvals or SEA Act (H.R. 3133 ) to the House floor. The bill was passed by voice vote today, but Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) stated that he still strongly opposes the bill and will continue to fight to stop the bill from passing on the House floor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Michael Andres Miller was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto for trafficking minors for sex in Queens, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Miller previously pled guilty to this crime on May 9, 2017. Miller was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $9,500 to the minor victims identified in the indictment as Jane Doe #1, Jane Doe #2 and Jane Doe #3.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Wednesday to five bank robberies in four states, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced legislation to reform the Peace Corps. The Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018 would improve access to medical care for volunteers, strengthen accountability ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Director of Media Relations Kelly Thornton.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Bosnian man residing in Chicago, who served as an officer in the Bosnian conflict during the 1990s, was deported Monday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Throughout the tax reform debate, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) emphasized the impact that tax reform would have on workforce investments. Already, in response to the new tax reform law, hundreds of companies have acted to boost wages and give bonuses, resulting in higher paychecks and greater compensation for millions of American workers.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure held the hearing, “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BURLEY, Idaho - On Jan. 17 from 4-6 p.m., the BLM Burley Field Office (15 East 200 South, Burley) will host an open house to update the public about the proposed improvements and status of the conceptual plans for the Milner Historic Recreation Area. The field office has immediate plans to improve the...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Sanctions and Financial Pressure: Major National Security Tools." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Houston resident has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
