News from April 2017
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
Release: Washington, DC – Today, at Earth Day Texas 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 38 small businesses that will collaborate with national lab researchers through the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. SBV facilitates access to the DOE national labs for American small businesses, enabling ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Stole and Sold Millions of Credit Card Numbers - Defrauding Victims of More Than $169 Million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: SEDRO WOOLLEY, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 979,578 visitors to North Cascades National Park Service Complex in 2016 spent $44,208,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 544 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $53,918,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Illegally Export High-Grade Carbon Fiber to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Larry Todd Hoffmeister, 51, of Columbus, N.M., with assaulting federal officers. Hoffmeister was released pending trial under pretrial supervision and other conditions of release.
By State Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing Thursday, April 27 entitled “Syria After the Missile Strikes: Policy Options." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
Release: PHILADELHIA - Demand for travelers interested in enrolling in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) TSA Pre✓® program has been so strong that a temporary application center has been opened at Philadelphia International Airport in addition to the several permanent application centers already open in the region.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Healthy coral reefs protect shores from storms and offer habitats for fish and other marine life, including ecologically and economically important species. After corals die, reefs quickly degrade and the structures corals build erode. While corals can recover from mild bleaching, severe or long-term bleaching is often lethal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Volkswagen AG (VW) was sentenced in federal court in Detroit today after pleading guilty on March 10, 2017, to three felony counts of: (1) conspiracy to defraud the United States, engage in wire fraud, and violate the Clean Air Act; (2) obstruction of justice; and (3) importation of merchandise by means...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that two men were sentenced this week on one count each of Failure to Collect or Pay Over Tax. James R. Cheek, age 68, of Waleska, Georgia and Herschel J. Breig, Sr., age 69, of Nixa, Missouri...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ODESSA, Del. - This morning, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, toured sections of Delaware State Route 9 in Odessa where the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) is considering permanently closing the road due to frequent flooding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging Fabio Gasperini, an Italian citizen, with crimes related to his hacking of computers, creation of a global botnet, and perpetration of a fraud in which he used bots to mimic “clicks" on website advertisements and obtain advertising...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Washington - The Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials will hold a hearing next week to review the state of railroad, pipeline, and hazardous materials safety regulation and explore opportunities for reform to ensure America’s economic competitiveness in the 21st century.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Due to recent warm temperatures and snowmelt, Kenai Fjords National Park has closed the Exit Glacier area to snowmachine use. This closure includes the road to Exit Glacier within the park boundary, parking areas, the designated route through the campground to Exit Creek, and within Exit Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Stephan D. Boggs, 64, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $280,000 in restitution for supplying non-conforming military parts to the Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Larry Todd Hoffmeister, 51, of Columbus, N.M., with assaulting federal officers. Hoffmeister was released pending trial under pretrial supervision and other conditions of release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Spread Malicious Software onto Computer Servers in the United States and Around the World for Personal Financial Gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 35-year-old man, Brandon Ryan Blackstone, who admitted fraudulently representing the receipt of a military decoration for financial gain, has been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to serve 21 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Steven Demote King, 50, of Mobile, was sentenced to 235 months imprisonment on his conviction for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment was returned in April of 2016. The single...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Victims Were Attacked in Broad Daylight As They Were Walking on a Sunday Evening.
