News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park will be providing special programs during the weekend prior to the eclipse. These programs are free to the public, but parking might be limited.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded Customs & Border Protection (CBP) for moving quickly against illegally laundered imports from China. CBP used tools created by legislation written by Senator Wyden to strengthen the enforcement of U.S. trade remedy laws, and crack down on evasion that harms U.S. workers and businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Samantha Foster, 30, of Wooster, with conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jeremey Dewayne Faulk, 30, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Faulk to 84 months in prison followed by a three-year term of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Byron Harold Peshlakai, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 30 months in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Peshlakai will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of CHRISTOPHER BARRY, 46, to 12 months and 1 day in prison for stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Lutonix, Inc. BARRY pleaded guilty on May 9, 2017, and was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Paul J.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six more defendants have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a senior Democrat on both the Oversight Committee and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent letters to seven pharmaceutical companies requesting information about their pricing strategies for drugs used to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Aug. 16, 2017, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced William Ray Wagner, age 34, a resident of Harford County, Maryland, to 10 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for the use of interstate facilities to coerce a minor to engage in sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Latonya Lanette Carson, 43, of Dallas, Texas and Smith Olsola Akin, 34, of Plano, Texas were sentenced this afternoon for their role in a scheme to steal personal identifying information, use it to fraudulently obtain income tax refunds, and then launder those funds, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About Bank Robbery in Pompano Beach.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - A Mesa man identified during a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Hydration while hiking is critical to human health-- ensure that you are drinking enough water for physical activity.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a draft Environmental Assessment analyzing the impacts of purchasing up to 6,000 acre-feet of tertiary treated recycled water for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Markell Darrell Davis, 31, of Solano County, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, called on the Government Accountability...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, called on the Government Accountability...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLEN DAVIS, 36, of Meriden, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist has found a way to find hidden defects in the animal hides that become our footwear, sporting goods, fashion accessories and other leather goods.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - For the first time since 2012, EM recently shipped treated transuranic waste from Oak Ridge’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico for permanent disposal.
