News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on May 18, 2018, Javier Reyna, 37, of Alamo, Texas, was sentenced to 16 years (192 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and an unspecified amount of cocaine and conspiracy to money launder. Following the prison term, Reyna will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Boyles, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration and ordered to pay back more than $240,000 for health care fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: DALLAS -Juan Mauricio Araujo, Jr., aka “Pelon", 35, was sentenced on Monday, May 14, 2018, before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Morgan City man was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison for using the internet to download and possess child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) - Yesterday, a federal judge imposed a 16-year prison sentence on the last of nine defendants in a Birmingham-based conspiracy to distribute multiple kilograms of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in Jefferson County in 2015 and 2016, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a proposed rule to increase the safety of America’s construction sites. In addition to providing long-term clarity regarding crane operator certification requirements, the proposal reinstates the employer duty to ensure that a crane operator is qualified to safely operate equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISO - Drs. William Longton, Ruben Kalra, and Richard Shinaman have agreed to collectively pay $260,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that they failed to keep and maintain adequate records and other allegations pertaining to controlled substances at their Novato, Pleasant Hill, and Pleasanton offices, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on how tax reform is helping small businesses grow their operations and invest in local communities and workers. The hearing will be the second in a series on the effects of tax reform. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 10:00 AM.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) demanded Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) to clarify what steps he intends for the House of Representatives and the U.S. Congress to take on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation during the remainder of this Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Aaron Hill, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a $5,000,000 fine, or both.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years of imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his convictions for conspiring to possess and distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, health care fraud, and perjury, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - Yesterday, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined S.E. Cupp on HLN’s “S.E. Cupp Unfiltered" to discuss the work that the Ways & Means Committee is doing on welfare reform that will help Americans get off of the sidelines and into the workforce.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $232,300 civil penalty against Aviation Technical Services Inc. (ATS) of Everett, Wash., for allegedly violating drug and alcohol testing regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Christopher Davis, 45, of Las Cruces, N.M., made his initial appearance today in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with receipt of material containing or constituting child pornography. Davis, who is employed as a Supervisory U.S. Border Patrol Agent, remains in federal custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, which are scheduled for May 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: The Defendant, a Member of the Cypress Gangsta Crips, Fatally Shot a Bloods-Affiliated Rival.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Gary Ronald Morris, 69, of McKinney, Texas, appeared in federal court yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Rene Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Vivian George Stewart, 49, who has used five aliases in his attempts to enter or remain in the United States, was sentenced May 16 to 26 months in prison for re-entering the country illegally, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain. Stewart pled guilty in February.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER GOFF was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring...
