News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Steven Blumhagen, 67, of Amherst, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to bank theft. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison. The defendant must also pay restitution totaling $1,275,500 to 19 victims.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced it will impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma announced its decision to grant the Social Security Administration (SSA) partial relief from the 1984 Jordan v. Schweiker decision requiring all representative payees to submit an annual accounting form. This decision allows the SSA to move forward implementing a key provision of the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Lowering Costs and Expanding Access to Health Care through Consumer-Directed Health Plans." The hearing will examine trends in enrollment and demographics...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Georgia man with prior felony convictions today admitted illegally possessing weapons and possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla - Everglades National Park and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) are partnering together to expand efforts to remove Burmese pythons from within the park. The partnership will expand the park’s Python Removal Authorized Agent Program by allowing paid FWC contractors...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: The Three Hundred and Seventh meeting of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission will take place on Monday, June 18, at 1:00 P.M., in the meeting room at Headquarters, 99 Marconi Station Road, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts to discuss the following.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Woojae Jung, A/K/A “Steve Jung," Used a Nominee Trading Account to Make Numerous Securities Trades on Material Nonpublic Information Stolen from his Employer.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Fla. - Two unlawfully present Honduran nationals were sentenced Wednesday for conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their roles in a scheme that created shell companies to mask the unauthorized employment of workers in the construction industry. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jacksonville office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined Guy Benson and Marie Harf on Fox News Radio’s “Benson & Harf" to discuss the important welfare reform legislation that the Ways and Means Committee will be marking up later today : the JOBS for Success Act.
By State Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the administration announced it would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 25 months’ imprisonment followed by four years supervised release on her convictions for conspiring to commit health care fraud and conspiring to distribute oxycodone, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Brockton men were sentenced in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking charges.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement regarding the Administration’s decision to request the establishment of a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel challenging Canada’s unfair restrictions on the sale of U.S. wine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today that Bolutife Olusegun Olorunda, 29, a resident of Vancouver, Washington, was charged by complaint in the United States District Court with Interference With Flight Crew Members and Attendants.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today the appointment of Victor A. S. Regal, Thomas E. Duncombe, and Melody Noble Nelson as Assistant United States Attorneys in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma. As Criminal Division AUSAs, they will...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - DeShaune K. Stewart, 24, of Columbus, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury today with two counts of murdering an officer of the United States Government.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - Recreationists will now be able to easily attain electronic recreation permits and annual passes for Lake Havasu shoreline sites, making access to public lands more convenient.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 29, 2018, Osmar Bustamante-Figueroa, 21, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 65 months’ imprisonment. Bustamante was the third of three defendants convicted of crimes involving producing and passing counterfeit U.S. currency and unlawfully ...
