News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to news reports on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that a ten year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would save the government $6 billion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Independence, Mo., man has been convicted at trial of illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Alfonzo Dewayne Johnson, 43, of Muskegon, was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Johnson pled guilty last year to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crystal methamphetamine and previously had served a decade in federal prison for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Dillon Peters (30) of Neopit was sentenced on January 8, 2018 to 77 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release after a conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea in October 2017 before Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: The last time the U.S. government tested and ordered new polar icebreaker cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) was in 1976. However, in 2015, the decision was made to ramp up the fleet with three brand new, state-of-the-market heavy polar icebreakers. Since it had been so long since the last order, it was like starting from scratch.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 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), released the following statement after a bipartisan briefing with top Trump administration officials on infrastructure. The meeting included Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and senators from the EPW committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Adamsely Mendoza Mercado, 40, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A federal grand jury indicted Mercado on Sept. 14, 2017. The superseding indictment alleged that Mercado distributed over fifty grams of actual methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former postal worker in Johnson County was sentenced Tuesday to five years on federal probation for smuggling marijuana through the mail, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two illegal aliens from Mexico were sentenced Tuesday for possession with intent to distribute more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A tax return preparer who operated a local business under the name “Postal Tax Services" has been ordered to federal prison for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ramsey Covington of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI). Yomi Michael John pleaded guilty May 11, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today recommending that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) take a series of steps to improve network resiliency. The report was prepared at Pallone’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Vincent Beatty, 39, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Edwin Fuentes Billed Patients for Services Not Administered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Tuesday that United States District Court Judge James M. Moody Jr., sentenced Dorothy Harper, 52, of England, to prison for her role in a multi-million dollar scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant falsely represented that clients had died, then collected their pre-paid funeral insurance payouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two physicians operating offices in West Virginia, along with a business partner, were indicted by a grand jury today on charges of illegally distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s national laboratory and the management and operations contractor at Savannah River Site (SRS) developed an innovative system to better monitor wildlife for contamination during the site’s deer hunts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging Jaron Ruth, 25, of Buffalo, NY, with discharge of a firearm causing death; possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes; conspiracy to distribute...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to a news report from E&E News regarding EPA’s decision to cut funding to the Bay Journal, a newspaper focused on the Chesapeake Bay...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will reopen at 9:00 am on Tuesday, January 9.
