News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three residents of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and a resident of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of criminal contempt of court, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested Wednesday in Toa Baja a man for advertising, receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - The Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society will host photographer Audrey Tiernan this Sunday, August 6 to celebrate the unveiling of a new photographic display. The display includes Tiernans images from Bill Bleyer’s new book Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon, published with support from the Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation. The event begins at 1:00 pm at the Fire Island Lighthouse Fresnel Lens Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bill yesterday that would help identify unnecessary federal regulations for elimination and give businesses and Missourians a larger voice in the regulatory process. The Regulatory Improvement and Transparency Act includes a number of provisions that strengthen transparency and accountability in how federal agencies create regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant fled Canada to the U.S. on foot to avoid deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jamie Paredes Lojano, 29, of Ecuador (currently living in Colonie, New York), was sentenced today to time served (57 days in jail), followed by a one year period of supervised release, for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nevada Department of Corrections, Silver State Industries on Saturday, Aug. 19, will host a saddle-trained wild horse and burro adoption at the White Pine County Fairgrounds, 78 North McGill Highway, in Ely, Nev.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Ruth and Abby, the National Park’s 1850s Ladies, will be jammin' at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park on Thursday, Aug. 10, AHA! night, from 6-8 pm. Come by to learn about how jams and jellies were made in the 19th century and to taste some of their favorites. This free activity is fun for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 3, 2017, a Martin County resident was sentenced to 27 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that DANIEL...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith today, announced his departure from the Department of Justice, effective in September. Smith has been the Acing U.S. Attorney since David Rivera resigned in March of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that DANIEL...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Senate today confirmed Jay E. Town as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) today wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma voicing their deep concerns regarding the recently submitted proposal from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a man living in Oregon was sentenced Thursday to 300 months in prison for sexually assaulting and torturing a woman who he had a child with and who engaged in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man pleaded guilty today a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Tristen Paxton, 21, entered his guilty plea to possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 3, 2017, a Martin County resident was sentenced to 27 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: “The United States Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, has concluded the review of the investigations by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation into the Jocques Clemmons deadly force incident. We conclude that no further investigation or action is warranted.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year by 20 percent as compared to 2017, per the proposed notice being published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2017 and available for public inspection today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Tshombe Anderson, 54, of Grand Prairie, Texas, appeared today before Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn and pleaded guilty to a scheme he ran along with four of his family members from July 2011 to September 2015 to fraudulently obtain more than $26 million from the Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (OWCP), announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
