News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Bastrop woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $40,000 in Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today regarding serious concerns of impartiality of current EPA political appointees, and to request additional information regarding appointees engaged...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Five defendants, who were previously convicted of child sex trafficking, on Monday were ordered to pay their victims more than $635,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Norcross, Georgia, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Tom Carper, and Sen. Gary Peters, sent a letter to Kushner Companies LLC and a letter to the White House Counsel’s Office in response to news reports...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) issued the following statement today in response to a proposed rule published by the EPA late last week to dilute requirements put in place in 2016 for the safe disposal of coal ash...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old Houston woman has been ordered to prison for submitting falsified fund requests to an investment adviser for the Basilian Father’s Missions of the Catholic Church (BFM), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. Rosina K. Blanco pleaded guilty Oct. 24, 2017, to one count of wire fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) issued the following statement today in response to a proposed rule published by the EPA late last week to dilute requirements put in place in 2016 for the safe disposal of coal ash...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 11 members and 10 alternates to serve on the American Egg Board. Nine member appointees and nine alternates will serve two-year terms. Three appointees -- two members and one alternate -- will serve the remaining one-year portion of vacant positions. The appointed members and alternates are.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Today, the three Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care introduced a comprehensive bill that would improve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces by making health care more affordable and by reversing the harmful Trump Administration actions that have sabotaged the...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Today, the three Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care introduced a comprehensive bill that would improve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces by making health care more affordable and by reversing the harmful Trump Administration actions that have sabotaged the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kesia Quinette Jackson has been sentenced for her role as an organizer in an armed robbery spree that spanned five counties, and target seven Wal-Mart Stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman pled guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Lorie A. Mayhon, 43, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MODESTO BARETT-MEDINA, 49, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BALTIMORE - A fugitive alien and member of the 18th Street Gang was removed from the United States Friday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: On Tuesday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education will hold a hearing on "Strengthening Welfare to Work With Child Care." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former marriage and family therapist who was convicted by a jury of possession and receipt of child pornography and for soliciting a child to have sex with him was sentenced today to 300 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania man was sentenced March 5, to 180 months, in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on enticement of a minor and production of child pornography, following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Gardner man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to a federal firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that David Tyler Nelson, a 23 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 33 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, namely, Unlawful Possession or Receipt of a Controlled Substance.
