News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Two Philadelphia men were sentenced to prison for conspiring to file fraudulent tax refund claims, announced U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that an illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty Tuesday to reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Defendants Accused of Distributing Crack, Cocaine, PCP, Fentanyl, and Firearms in the Washington Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SCRONIC, a former hedge fund manager, pleaded guilty today to securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel. SCRONIC admitted as part of his plea that he had defrauded the 45 investors in his Scronic Macro Fund of more than $22 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago-based partner in a global consulting firm has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for scheming with a client to bilk their companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in purported consulting work that was never performed.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, March 22 on President Trump’s 2018 Trade Policy Agenda. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - Bids on oil and gas leases in Montana brought in $193,341.50 in an online auction held March 12-13 by the Bureau of Land Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: NOAA issued its three-month U.S. Spring Outlook today, highlighting a moderate risk of flooding in the Ohio River Valley basin and lower Mississippi River where streamflows and soil moisture are well above normal after major flooding from recent heavy rainfall.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comments on the proposed Crescent Peak Wind Energy Project in Clark County, Nevada. The proposal aligns with the Trump administration’s America First Energy Plan, an all-of-the-above approach that includes renewable sources such as wind, geothermal, and solar, as well as sources such as coal, oil and gas - all of which can be developed on public lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis expressing grave concerns about the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - David Lawrence Krueger, 39, of Farmington, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms. At sentencing, Krueger faces a maximum penalty of ten years of imprisonment unless the court determines that he is an armed career criminal. In that event, Krueger will face an enhanced sentence of a statutory mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years of imprisonment and a maximum of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Marc Christopher Turner, 44, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW DEME, 52, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a conspiracy charge stemming from an investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Former Siemens Executive Pleads Guilty To Role in $100 Million Foreign Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WACO, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities arrested 11 individuals in connection with a crystal methamphetamine trafficking operation in the Waco area, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw; McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara; and Waco Police Chief Ryan Holt.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a Committee hearing on the 340B program which helps hospitals and health centers serving vulnerable populations to stretch their resources further by ensuring they have access to discounted drug prices.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL: Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas National Monuments are currently accepting applicants for the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Today, federal, state and local authorities arrested eleven individuals in connection with a crystal methamphetamine trafficking operation in the Waco area, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw; McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara; and, Waco Police Chief Ryan Holt.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Sharon Ramos, age 56, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for ten counts of making false entries in government records, two counts of conversion of government money, and one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), held a hearing on “Strengthening Access and Accountability to Work in Welfare Programs."
