News from May 2018
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced that the House of Representatives will soon vote on a Senate bill giving patients the ‘right to try.’
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARINA BURMAN was sentenced today to 36 months in prison. BURMAN, the former president of a medical supply company, submitted approximately $3.4 million in fraudulent bills to the New York State Medicaid...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The Gros Ventre Road in Grand Teton National Park will be closed for up to five nights from Tuesday, May 29 through Saturday, June 2. The road will be closed between Gros Ventre Junction and Gros Ventre Campground from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night. If rainy or poor conditions prevent grading and paving activities, the closure will be postponed to the following week. The closures will not affect traffic on U.S. Highway 89/26/191.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on May 14, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child, was sentenced on May 14, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman charged with Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty and was sentenced on May 16, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Michigan Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Charges for Role in $8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Law Enforcement Arrest Two with Hundreds of Grams of Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Avery Tumer (24, Leesburg) to 14 years and 2 months in federal prison for carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An investment advisor was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison for stealing $6.5 million from several clients, including family members in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Dawn Anderson, a/k/a “Prestige," a federally licensed firearms dealer in Atlanta, doing business as Distincvision, LLC, a/k/a “Liquidation Outlet Center," was sentenced today for making false entries in the records required to be kept by federal firearms dealers. Shawn Lewis, an employee at LOC and co-defendant, was previously sentenced for his role in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant, Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood, Faces Sentence of 15 to 30 Years of Imprisonment Per Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant committed attempted murder and helped bury evidence from murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months of imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Gregory Hubbard, a/k/a, Jibreel, 54, of West Palm Beach, Florida; Dayne Antani Christian, a/k/a, Shakur, 33, of Lake Park, Florida; and Darren Arness Jackson, a/k/a, Daoud, 53, of West Palm Beach, were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Funding Supports Infrastructure, Schools, Libraries, Municipal Centers, Opioid Treatment, Prevention and Recovery, and Other Community Needs WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $243 million in 50 rural community facility projects in 22 states.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 14 members to serve two-year terms on the Plant Variety Protection Board. Two alternate members were also appointed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: A Manassas Park, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to producing and distributing child pornography. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy Doherty-McCormick of the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in ...
