News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Jahmal Malcom McGee, age 24, of Valdosta, GA, to 75 months of imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was handed down on March 14, 2018 in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban trader has been charged with fraud for allegedly misappropriating at least $750,000 from investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Camron D. Brown, 21, of Mountain Home, Idaho, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to six counts of interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act) and one count of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A Boise federal grand jury indicted Brown on May 9, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), an upgraded data system that holds great potential to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Medicaid data.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the passing of Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Rushmer, age 46, of Johnson City, New York, was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, and distribution and receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Vadim D. Thomas, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man who was previously convicted of federal heroin distribution charges was indicted today with drug distribution and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Lured Victims Through Dating Websites. GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina announced that Craig McINNIS, II, was sentenced March 13, 2018, by the Honorable Judge Thomas D. Schroeder in Federal Court in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC) is excited to display “Wyoming License Plates: A Brief History." This exhibit provides children of all ages the opportunity to connect with America’s cultural heritage and the role played by public lands in its development.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL WILLIAM MUZYKA, 48, of North Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to charges related to his role in a large-scale fencing operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, a Syrian national who had been living in Iraq, was convicted by a jury, following a six-week trial, of conspiring and supporting the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, an insurgent group that planted road-side bombs to attack and kill American soldiers in Iraq.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to instruct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in coordination with other federal agencies, to take a number of actions that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Hire a Hit Man to Assault and Torture His Estranged Spouse and Her New Domestic Partner.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), today issued the following statements after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Obama-era fiduciary rule, a regulation that limited retirement savers’ access to affordable financial advice and cost American families an estimated $17 billion a year.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), an upgraded data system that holds great potential to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Medicaid data.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRIN LAMORE, 47, of Enfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a conspiracy offense related to his theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sean McChord O’Donnell was sentenced to 60 months in prison and 3 years supervised release for charges of racketeering, involving the use of interstate facilities to promote prostitution occurring between November 2016 and January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Two men were indicted for illegally reentering the United States.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the president signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535). Championed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), the bipartisan legislation encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL WILLIAM MUZYKA, 48, of North Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to charges related to his role in a large-scale fencing operation.
