News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Dustin Allen Hughes, 26, of Cutler Bay, Florida, has been arrested and charged with making a bomb threat to a South Florida mosque.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Dayton, Nevada, man was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for receiving approximately 850 photos and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Daryl D. Shack (28, Jacksonville) yesterday pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor during the consideration of H.R. 5682, the “Protect and Serve Act."
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, introduced a Resolution of Inquiry directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide the Committee with all information and documentation it possesses related to the cybersecurity...
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: SAVANNAH, GA: In the nation’s largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of drug diversion at a hospital, Effingham Health System has agreed to pay the United States $4.1 million to resolve allegations that Effingham Health System failed to provide effective controls and procedures to guard...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Darryl Harris, Jr., 35, Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 11 ½ years for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Harris pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 17, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: In celebration of Asia Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Park Rangers are presenting a program centered around this year's theme of "We Are All Part of One Another". The program will highlight the countries in the Asia-Pacific and the National Park Service units that focus on the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Asia Pacific Islander Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Dayton, Nevada, man was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for receiving approximately 850 photos and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 140 months’ imprisonment, followed by 20 years supervised release, on a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE SANTIAGO-ORTIZ was found guilty of murder, participating in a narcotics conspiracy, and firearms offenses yesterday after a one-week jury trial before the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on May 16, 2018, United State District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Rodney Lillard, age 34, of Omaha, Nebraska, for his conviction for felon in possession of a firearm. Lillard was sentenced to a jail term of 30 months and was placed on supervised release for one year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio today, a federal judge sentenced the former City Attorney and City Manager of Crystal City, TX, to 420 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme which decimated city coffers announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program."
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “Telecommunications, Global Competitiveness, and National Security:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE SANTIAGO-ORTIZ was found guilty of murder, participating in a narcotics conspiracy, and firearms offenses yesterday after a one-week jury trial before the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Washington - 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 (PDF, 174 KB) in 22 states.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on the Environment Hearing on “Legislation Addressing New Source Review Permitting Reform:"
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today issued the following statement after the D.C. Court of Appeals preserved a lower court’s ruling on the case titled, United States House of Representatives v. Alex M. Azar II, et al., originally known as House v. Burwell.
