News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Enrique Pacheco, age 30, of McAlester; Liliana Alvarez Soto, age 22, of Oklahoma City; Leroy Carl Fox, age 40, of McAlester; Matthew Scott Scraper, age 37, of McAlester; Alyssa Mae Syvongsa, age...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The Department of Justice has announced a coordinated health care fraud enforcement operation across the state of Texas involving charges against a total of 58 individuals, several of which are charged in Houston. They were allegedly involved in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of “pill...
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on "U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Hong Kong, Alliances and Partnerships, and Other Issues", with witness testimony from The Honorable David Stilwell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs at the Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Tewksbury woman was charged today in federal court in Boston with diverting morphine while employed as a nurse in the hospice unit at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center campus in Bedford.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 62-year-old Longview, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Kermit Tyler Poulson, 40, was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release for transmitting threatening communications with the intent to extort Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Administration’s Priorities and Policy Initiatives Under the Clean Water Act":
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement on the confirmation of two officials to the Treasury Department. The U.S. Senate confirmed Brent McIntosh to serve as Under Secretary for International Affairs by a vote of 54-38 and Brian Callanan to serve as General Counsel by a vote of 55-39.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Julion Adamski Parker, a/k/a Julian Iden Lima, 27, of Chester, was sentenced to time served (approximately 16 months) and fined $1,000 for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Three men were indicted in federal court for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids via the dark web.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The Justice Department has announced a coordinated health care fraud enforcement operation across the state of Texas involving charges against a total of 58 individuals, several of which are charged in Houston. They were allegedly involved in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of “pill mill"...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: MACON - Macon Regional Crimestoppers released a new list of the Top 15 Most Wanted fugitives, announced United States Attorney Charles “Charlie" E. Peeler. U.S. Attorney Peeler joined law enforcement leadership from across the Middle District of Georgia to make the announcement at a location known as...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The Justice Department has announced a coordinated health care fraud enforcement operation across the state of Texas involving charges against a total of 58 individuals, several of which are charged in Houston. They were allegedly involved in Medicare fraud schemes and networks of “pill mill"...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of JAMES FLAHERTY HILL, a/k/a “Whitey," 36, for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. HILL was found guilty following a seven-day trial before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Myrna Thomas Quarles, 59, of Cotton Valley, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark L. Hornsby for taking more than $1 million from a federal feeding program meant to provide meals to economically disadvantaged children during the summer months when they are not in school.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Julion Adamski Parker, a/k/a Julian Iden Lima, 27, of Chester, was sentenced to time served (approximately 16 months) and fined $1,000 for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent their third letter demanding documents being withheld by the Department of Defense in response to...
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) made the following statement after his appointment by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to serve as an outside conferee on the bipartisan House-Senate Conference Committee to resolve differences in the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: A Marion man was charged in federal court for child exploitation after he induced a 13-year-old to engage sexual activity.
