News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: One Defendant Involved in Conspiracy from Behind Bars at Federal Prison in Yazoo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today released the following statement after introduction of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Former Defense Contractor Sentenced for Unlawfully Retaining Classified Information.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House and Senate released the new bipartisan, bicameral agreement on the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act, legislation to help prevent the shipment of synthetic opioids into the United States through the international mail system. House Ways and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Marshals Service and Drug Enforcement Administration, working with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, recently completed the first phase of “Operation We Are CLE," resulting in the arrests of more than 200 people, confiscation of 36 firearms and seizure of 60 kilograms of cocaine and nearly five kilograms of heroin in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jennifer Joyce Douglas, age 37, of Toppenish, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 16, 2018, to second degree murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A man from Arlington, South Dakota, has been ordered to pay $353,441.42 to the United States for defrauding the United States Postal Service. As postmaster from 2010 until 2015, Craig Christeson devised a scheme whereby he falsely certified receipt of spoiled postage meter strips, printed and cashed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Ordered to Pay Over $8 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant Traded Before Negative Earnings Announcements and an Acquisition of the Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Donnie Garland, 52, of Corbin, Ky., was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison, by United States District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for distributing methamphetamine, possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture, possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes, and possessing a firearm following a felony criminal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - A western North Dakota man, who has a previous conviction for sexually molesting children, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Eric Smith Conspired to Murder Rival Gang Members, Committed Robberies and Distributed Illegal Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Matthew Felton, 38, of Somersworth, was sentenced to serve 25 years in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release for production of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Sent Multiple Threatening Tweets to Senator’s Twitter Accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ranking Member John Larson (D-CT) led 18 of their Committee colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding Facebook’s new policy of collecting the last four digits of Social Security numbers (SSNs) for those who seek to purchase political advertisements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Wisconsin Woman Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 177,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 5,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2017/2018 marketing year and 172,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: W ATCH HERE . Today, during a House Judiciary Committee markup, House Judiciary Committee Democrats called for hearings on the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance" immigration policy, which has led to a surge of family separations at the border and recent policy changes to strip asylum protections ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL HARRINGTON was sentenced to two years of probation and 180 hours of community service for misapplying police resources while serving in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") as, among other things, a Deputy Chief and Executive Officer for the Chief of Department’s Office. He was sentenced by the U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Moquino, 39, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to an assault charge.
