News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman was charged in federal district court with 20 counts of Wire Fraud and 5 counts of Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Washington, D.C. man today for his participation in three armed robberies and an armed carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Elder Auxume-Guerra (39, Honduras) has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Washington, D.C. man today for his participation in three armed robberies and an armed carjacking.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A solider based in Fort Hood, Texas, pleaded guilty Jan. 29 for his role in a conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, and illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Dean Smith, of Great Cacapon, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Enrique Cordova Campos, age 42, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa Springmann on his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “State of the CFTC: Examining Pending Rules, Cryptocurrency Regulation, and Cross-Border Agreements."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today raising serious concerns over the extended delay in releasing grant applications for the Title X family planning program. The letter was signed by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - John H. Nardozzi, a certified public accountant, was charged in an indictment unsealed today with assisting former State Senator Brian Joyce with preparing and filing false income tax returns.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 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 the General Services Administration (GSA) failed to deliver a plan to the committee regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Juan Garcia, 29, of OKC, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John Dowdell to serve 170 months in federal prison. A jury previously found Garcia guilty of violating the federal drug conspiracy statute. After release from prison, Garcia must serve five years on supervised release. Parole has been abolished in the federal system.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today raising serious concerns over the extended delay in releasing grant applications for the Title X family planning program. The letter was signed by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Victim Was Walking Home With Medicine for His Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Javier Figueroa, a/k/a/ Javi, a/k/a Big Bro, 39, Roberto Figueroa, 42, Leitscha Poncedeleon, 28, and Orlando Yelder, 36, Jose Justiniano-Rodriguez, 18, Jashua Figueroa, 19, and Obed Torres, 21, all of Rochester, were arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Rusty Hood, 38, of Sanford, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Harry Lee Goodwin, age 44, of West Columbia, pled guilty today in federal court to possessing heroin and “crack" cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Inspector General: We request that you conduct an immediate review of the State Department’s personnel practices related to detailing staff to work on the Secretary of State’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) surge. Our staffs have been in touch with whistleblowers alleging that the Department...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released a comprehensive staff report summarizing actions taken by the Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Administrator Scott Pruitt, to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Richard Straight, Jenna Jeanne Allec, and Kenneth Lee Kemp were each sentenced today for their respective roles in an interstate firearms trafficking scheme announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge...
