News from November 2018
By DOE Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed three bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee bills. Collectively, the bills promote the use of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and advance public health.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: John H, Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Steven Stuller, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, announced that MARCEL VAN WOLVELAERD, 63, of Guilford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for submitting false documents to the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: He Had Previously Pleaded Guilty to Robbing and Conspiring to Rob a Cedar Rapids Cell Phone Store.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced that more than 100 previous felony offenders possessing firearms have been charged so-far this year as one part of the ongoing Project Safe Neighborhoods effort to tackle violent crime in Metro Louisville.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Two Iranian Men Indicted for Deploying Ransomware to Extort Hospitals, Municipalities, and Public Institutions, Causing Over $30 Million in Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three men were charged in federal court yesterday for their roles in a series of armed business robberies in Kansas City, Mo., and Independence, Mo., over the past week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Three people from Michigan were sentenced to prison for using stolen identities to apply for fraudulent bank loans.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Ted Poe (R-TX), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Adam Smith (D-WA), and Bill Keating (D-MA) today applauded the House passage of their bipartisan bill, the Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act. This legislation would improve U.S. engagement in fragile and unstable countries to reduce violence and address the conditions that create safe havens for terrorists, criminal networks, and war lords.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Last of Ten Defendants Sentenced in Scheme That Involved Installing Card- Skimming Devices in Gas-Pumps, Creating Cloned Credit Cards Using Captured Account Numbers, and Using Cloned Cards to Bulk-Buy Prepaid Cards at Meijer Branches Throughout the Greater Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing Areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 54-year old who had been illegally residing in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented aliens and illegal re-entry after deportation, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Victoriano Zamora-Jasso aka “Tata," pleaded guilty Jan. 29, 2018, on the eve of jury selection.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Ten people were sentenced to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to install credit-card skimmers on gas pumps in at least five states, including several locations in Northeast Ohio, and steal account information from thousands of people.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed three bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee bills. Collectively, the bills promote the use of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and advance public health.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Bank Lost Over $850,000 as a Result of a Two-Year Long Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles begin Dec. 1 in specific areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office to protect critical big game winter range and prevent road damage.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I was deeply disturbed by images and videos from this past Sunday of asylum seekers being sprayed with tear gas by U.S. officials at the U.S. - Mexico border. I understand from press reports that the Mexican Foreign Ministry has presented the State Department with a diplomatic note...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Abdon faces 10 years to life.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Wednesday, December 5 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Availability of SAFE Kits at Hospitals in the United States."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced KATHERINE T. CANCIENNE, age 41, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 28 months in federal prison following her conviction for wire fraud. CANCIENNE was also ordered to pay $387,025.75 in restitution to Engineers & Constructors International, Inc. (“ECI").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Council Bluffs, Iowa, man convicted of Cyberstalking and Failure to Pay Legal Child Support was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAVID HANSON, age 61, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, and CLIFFORD “SKIP" KEEN, age 50, from Covington, Louisiana, were charged today in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and soliciting a bribe, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 371, for their roles in the privatization of a work release program in Slidell, Louisiana in 2013.
