News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have published the final environmental impact statement (EIS) evaluating environmental impacts and mitigation measures and identifying the agency-preferred alternative for the proposed Rasmussen Valley phosphate mine, near Soda Springs, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: A Youngstown man was charged in a with firearms and narcotics violations, including selling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Mr. Speaker, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in our Nation’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Worth, Texas, man was acquitted of Involuntary Manslaughter as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on September 8, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing policy considerations regarding per capita Medicaid caps as Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Indictment Alleges Violence Including 13 Murders, and 21 Non-Fatal Shootings; “Hillside" Enterprise is Fourth Rival Gang Prosecuted in Cherry Hill.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -From the state of conservation in North America to climate change response strategies to youth and diversity to healthy parks and healthy people, National Park Service (NPS) staff at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii have engage...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel" vehicles, the Justice Department announced today. Liang’s plea agreement provides that he will cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mark W. McGregor, 63, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. In addition, McGregor was ordered to pay $380,000 in restitution, $380,000 in forfeiture, and a $50,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert S. Beyer, II, was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering charges involving a scheme to lure investors into investing money with Heroic Life Assurance Company, LLC, a fraudulent enterprise that Beyer created in order to steal money from his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on September 8, a federal grand jury in Williamsport indicted Glenn Ming Young for possession of contraband in a prison facility.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration is now accepting job applications from people with previous air traffic control experience. The FAA will accept the applications from Sept. 7 through Sept. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - The United States Attorney’s Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee hosted the annual Strom Thurmond Awards for Excellence in Law Enforcement Luncheon today at the Fort Jackson Officers' Club, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The awards luncheon was attended by state, local and federal law enforcement officials from across the state.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I write today about a tragic unfolding situation involving the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin (Tomah VAMC). On September 8, the body of U.S. Army veteran Brian Rossell was found in Wausau, Wisconsin; he had apparently committed suicide. According...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking volunteers for a work project that will occur in the Mammoth area of Yellowstone National Park on Saturday, September 24. As part of National Public Lands Day, the largest single-day volunteer effort on public lands, the park’s entrance fees will be waived for all visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - With guilty pleas this week by a leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC), the three lead defendants in the largest racketeering case currently pending in Los Angeles have now pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gnoan Pierre Kablan, age 53, of Latham, New York, was sentenced today to serve weekends in jail for 3 months, and to serve 3 years of probation, for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert S. Beyer, II, was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering charges involving a scheme to lure investors into investing money with Heroic Life Assurance Company, LLC, a fraudulent enterprise that Beyer created in order to steal money from his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: He Admits Robbing the Same Bank Twice in Five Days.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ilie Sitariu, age 36, a Romanian national, was indicted yesterday for conspiring to steal account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) by using skimming devices that he secretly installed on bank ATMs in the Capital Region and the Berkshires.
