News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Following a joint law enforcement operation involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two Californians, a former medical doctor and his business partner, who were indicted on July 5, 2017 for a $7.1 million Medicare health care fraud scheme that occurred at three Las Vegas hospices, made their initial appearances in federal court today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramsey Jeries Farraj, 41, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiring with his former business partner, Majed Bashir “Mike" Akroush, 49, also of Bakersfield, to structure $4,204,965 obtained from the sale of smokeable synthetic drugs, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
Release: ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland travelers who are interested in applying for TSA Pre✓® can now do so in three designated Motor Vehicle Administration offices in Maryland-in the Annapolis, Salisbury and Waldorf branch offices. Yes, area residents now can do more than get a driver’s license, pick up license plates or take a driver’s test at these three DMV offices.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental assessment on Phase II of the Cattleman’s Ditches Piping Project located in Montrose County, Colorado. The project would replace approximately 6.1 miles of open irrigation ditch with 5.1 miles of buried water pipeline. The purpose of the project is to reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Michael O. Johnson (28, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces up to life in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing concerns regarding reports that under his leadership, the FCC has taken actions that suggest favorable treatment towards Sinclair Broadcast Group.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: DOUGLAS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management invites past adopters and owners of wild horses to enter the 8th annual wild horse competition at Wyoming Mustang Days, Aug. 15-19, at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas. Partnering with communities to celebrate and understand America’s wild horses is a key strategy in the BLM’s mission to sustain healthy rangelands for the horses, as well as American families and all other members of the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Iran Dennis “Denny" Foster, 46, of Fresno, today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: EMMETT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Snake River Area Office will hold its annual C.A.S.T. for Kids fishing event Saturday, Aug. 19, from 9 am to 2 pm. The event will be held at Black Canyon Park located on East Black Canyon Highway northeast of Emmett. Black Canyon Park will be closed to the public from 7 am until 2 pm.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the agency to investigate the Trump Administration’s enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The former manager of Team Members Childcare Center (TMCC), a childcare center owned by the Mescalero Apache Tribe and operated at the Inn of the Mountain Gods (IMG) on behalf of its employees that require childcare pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a theft of government money charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the agency to investigate the Trump Administration’s enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Transportation Security Administration officers working at the Nashville International Airport (BNA) security checkpoint discovered a firearm each day between August 10 through 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Estes, age 41, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 11, 2017, to 20 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for his role in a heroin and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, during 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin in January 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Daniel Justin Watts, 32, entered his guilty plea to a single-count indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: A 14-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging members and associates of the Bloods street gang based in Roosevelt, Long Island with racketeering, conspiracy to murder rival gang members, conspiracy to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a solar eclipse viewing at Shasta Dam Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to noon. The last time a total solar eclipse was visible from coast to coast along the same path was almost 100 years ago, on June 8, 1918.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in federal prison for his role in a heroin conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Steven Bush, Jr., 30, of Detroit, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
