News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Emmanuel Lopez, 27, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 100 grams or more of heroin. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on “Improving the Hydropower Licensing Process:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 6026) in the House of Representatives to stop abusive robocall practices. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) introduced similar legislation in the Senate today as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - John Foster, 42, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Keith Starrett to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Stephanie Murray, 30, of Loving, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to narcotics trafficking charges arising out of the sale of methamphetamine to an undercover law enforcement agent.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a letter from National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins announcing the agency will ask the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to conduct a study on Medication Assisted Treatment...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 6026) in the House of Representatives to stop abusive robocall practices. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) introduced similar legislation in the Senate today as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JAMES CURTIS DENTON, 37, of Willow Springs, North Carolina to 360 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Todd Macaluso Planned to Pilot Millions of Dollars of Cocaine across International Borders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ANNETTE M. STRAILY, of Comanche, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty yesterday to bank fraud and signing a false federal income tax return, in connection with a $283,000 embezzlement scheme from a Duncan dental office, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that they have reached a deal to lift U.S. sanctions on the Chinese tech company ZTE...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A fugitive human trafficking suspect was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia special agents and United States Marshals Service in Columbus, Ohio, June 6, after nearly a month on the run.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - William E. Young, 54, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 55 months in prison for cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two men from Orange County have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a “builder bailout" mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the fraudulent purchase of more than 100 condominium units around the country, causing more than $10 million in losses when the properties went into foreclosure.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 6, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of six members to serve on the National Pork Board. Five appointees will serve three-year terms and one appointee will serve the remaining two-year portion of a vacant position.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: A St. George, Utah, financial advisor was sentenced to 72 months in prison on June 4th for his role in selling fraudulent tax-avoidance and investment strategies to his clients, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: The United States filed a civil complaint to enjoin a California company from distributing hand sanitizer products that are unapproved new drugs, the Justice Department announced today. The complaint, filed June 6, 2018, seeks to enjoin defendants Innovative BioDefense, Inc., of Lake Forest, California ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: John “Jake” Bell, a resident of Lakeville, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today to illegally trafficking teeth from endangered sperm whales. The guilty plea was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Bell ...
