News from September 2018
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed several health care bills, including H.R. 6378, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced grant awards to Public Safety Partnership member sites as part of $10 million in funding to support state, local and tribal law enforcement departments and agencies and their partners who are fighting violent crime in jurisdictions across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and United States Attorney for the District of Maine Halsey B. Frank announced that Todd Shorey, 54, of Newport, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 84 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of heroin. He was also fined $5,000. Shorey pleaded guilty on April 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was a Getaway Driver for a Crew That Robbed Four Banks in Queens and Nassau Counties.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed Secretary DeVos’ implementation of the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). In her opening remarks, Senator Murray criticized Secretary DeVos approving...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kenzo Mateo Tokuda was sentenced to 69 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute alprazolam (commonly known as “Xanax") and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Henderson, 35, of Winthrop, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to making false statements to a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminitsration’s New England Division and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank for the District of Maine announced that Denton Worrell, aka “Lil D," 21, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Nagy Mohamed Abdelhamed, age 68, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Sept. 19, 2018, by a federal grand jury on one count of health care fraud and six counts of false statements in health care matters. The indictment was unsealed following Abdelhamed’s arrest.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) released the following statements regarding the agreement signed today by President Trump and South Korean President Moon to update the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: A man who received and possessed child pornography was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2018, to over 12 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TRAVIS W. McCOY, 24, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for enticing minors to engage in sexual activity over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 24, 2018, Dean Alan Treadway, 71, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 120 months in prison for possessing child pornography. Upon his release from prison, Treadway will be supervised by U.S. Probation for life and be required to register as a sex offender. He will also forfeit property used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization National Vice President John Xavier Portillo to two consecutive life sentences, plus 20 years, in federal prison for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief financial officer (CFO) of two Boston-area companies pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for embezzling millions of dollars from his former employers.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding the signing of the new United States-Republic of Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS): “We are entering into a new KORUS agreement that is a better deal for the entire United ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today praised the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to request a rehearing of a pesticide case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. DOJ has asked for a panel rehearing and a rehearing en banc in a case in which the court directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos, a common and useful pesticide, within 60 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: The owner of four pharmacies in Queens, New York, will be arraigned later today in federal court in Brooklyn on an indictment charging her with submitting millions of dollars in claims as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. The proceeding will take place before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven L. Tiscione at 11:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Derive Systems (Derive) addressing the sale of approximately 363,000 aftermarket products which the United States alleges were designed, in part, to defeat the emissions control systems of cars and trucks in violation of the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced grant awards to Public Safety Partnership member sites as part of $10 million in funding to support state, local and tribal law enforcement departments and agencies and their partners who are fighting violent crime in jurisdictions across the United States.
