News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Brandon Spicer, 42, of Franklin, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of receipt of child pornography, a crime punishable by at least five years and up to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Andreea Dumitru Knowingly Made False Statements and Representations on More Than 180 Asylum Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: New Jersey Woman Admits Shipping Designer Drugs from Farmingdale Post Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a public comment letter urging Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to withdraw a harmful proposed rule that would allow hospitals, doctors, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a public comment letter urging Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to withdraw a harmful proposed rule that would allow hospitals, doctors, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Residents and visitors to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park over the last week and a half have reduced their water consumption, resulting in the ability of the park to refill water storage tanks to sustainable levels. As a result of water conservation, the park is modifying Level 3 water restrictions to allow park concessioners to begin dishwashing at selected dining establishments.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), top Democrat on the EPW Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife, sent a letter to Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke requesting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Maurice Antonio Kent, Christopher Nwanjoku, Jamel Dupree Hughes, Cedric Sams, Jr., Jennifer Foutz, and Michael Kent, all members or associates of the street gang 135 Pirus, have been arrested on federal charges ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to murder in aid of racketeering. A federal grand jury returned the nine-count indictment on March 21, 2018, which was unsealed earlier today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding proposed changes affecting Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs payments and policies for 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man was sentenced today for making threats over Facebook to burn a local mosque and for unlawfully possessing dozens of firearms, ammunition and child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released the following statement about the U.S.-Korea trade agreement (KORUS)...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Eight Democratic Committee leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate sent a letter today to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding troubling reports of reassignments of members of the Senior Executive Service (SES). Reports indicate as many as 33 SES members may have been reassigned...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A High Bridge, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Maurice Antonio Kent, Christopher Nwanjoku, Jamel Dupree Hughes, Cedric Sams, Jr., Jennifer Foutz, and Michael Kent, all members or associates of the street gang 135 Pirus, have been arrested on federal charges ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to murder in aid of racketeering. A federal grand jury returned the nine-count indictment on March 21, 2018, which was unsealed earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: A task force led by the Drug Enforcement Administration today arrested 15 people and continues to search for an additional six defendants charged in connection with a long-term investigation of drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. Law enforcement served search warrants at eight ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Francis Tessina, 45, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: FORT APACHE, AZ-On March 22, 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with state and local partners, executed 18 federal arrest warrants on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. In addition, six tribal arrest warrants were executed as a result of the operation. Finally, four prisoners who had escaped from the White Mountain Apache Department of Corrections on the evening of March 21, 2018 were arrested within 24 hours of their escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jose Jesus Munoz was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge, following the entry of Munoz’s guilty plea to the charge on September 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a New York man and a New Jersey woman today pleaded guilty to their roles in a cross-country conspiracy to distribute dangerous designer drugs over the internet, including a synthetic opioid that is several times more potent than morphine.
