News from October 2019
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled "Implementing the 2018 Farm Bill".
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act and bills to strengthen Medicare coverage for beneficiaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC WILLIAMS, 38, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to two years of probation for smuggling phones into the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury (FCI Danbury) where he was employed. Judge Bolden ordered Williams to perform 100 hours of community service while on probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Jamie Gillette Embezzled from Bendable Bright Light, Inc.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing to hear from USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Censky regarding implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Peter Goodchild, 56, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced 102 months’ incarceration and ordered to pay $1,589,315 restitution by United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh for his scheme to embezzle that amount from his former employer...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Armando Vargas Garcia, 37, of Mexico, and Eduardo Montero Aleman, 37, of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, charging them with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, marijuana cultivation in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and depredation of federal lands and resources, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Alan Alfredo Garcia, 23, of Stockton, charging him with possession of unregistered silencers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s announcement that he will depart the Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday today sentenced Ikechukwu Derek Amadi (38, Mississauga, Ontario) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The court also entered an order of forfeiture against Amadi for $10,632,546.36, representing the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct, and ordered him to pay restitution to his victims in the amount of $4,360,740.97.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on HUD's Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Southern California Doctor Found Guilty in $12 Million Medicare Fraud and Device Adulteration Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shaun Miller, 39, of Bethesda, Maryland, and Thomas Randolph, 49, of Oakton, Virginia, were charged in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a seven-count indictment today. U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Timothy M. Dunham, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Peter Goodchild, 56, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced 102 months’ incarceration and ordered to pay $1,589,315 restitution by United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh for his scheme to embezzle that amount from his former employer...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - David Keith Frazier, 33, of Neshoba County and a member of the Mississippi Bank of Choctaw Indians, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to bank robbery by use of a dangerous weapon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The lead defendant in a racketeering conspiracy involving five murders was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on NASA's proposal to advance the next moon landing by four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Mexican man has been ordered to a federal prison sentence following his conviction of conspiracy to import large amounts of cocaine and marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of a Serial Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Lewiston woman was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for conspiring to manufacture marijuana, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
