News from August 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on “FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project - What Happened and What's Next."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Representatives Bobby Scott (VA-03) and John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13), the ranking members of the House Committees on Education and the Workforce and the Judiciary, respectively, issued the following statement after reports surfaced that the Department of Justice plans to attack and undermine affirmative action programs in colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Ohio Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Soliciting Murder of U.S. Military Members.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) - As time and weather progress, the area burned by the July Fire will likely experience changes and erosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Statement by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A woman from the United States residing in Mexico was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally importing methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Thurman Stanley, age 40, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to 188 months’ imprisonment for transporting women in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution and trafficking in heroin, “molly," and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon, Robert O. Moore, 68, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court for his bank fraud conviction. Moore was sentenced to a 27-month term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Moore also was ordered to pay $150,535.10 in restitution to the victim of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 50-year-old former Border Patrol (BP) agent has been ordered to federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Salvador Contreras pleaded guilty March 7, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver to waive certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international border near San Diego. The waiver will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke will join leaders from internet and technology companies at the inaugural meeting of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism in San Francisco, Calif. ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – President Trump’s Executive Order on Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection efforts. The data in this release shows a significant prison population of incarcerated aliens.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 DHS is Coordinating Closely with Private Sector Partners on Venue Security WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke met with security officials at AT&T Park in San Francisco to discuss how DHS works ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today made two key appointments to help fulfill the vital mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure the safety of the nation’s food supply. Perdue announced that Carmen Rottenberg was selected as Acting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: President Trump’s Executive Order on Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection efforts. The data in this release shows a significant prison population of incarcerated aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the selection of General Mark S. Inch as the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Rasheed Al Jijakli, 56, the chief executive officer of an Orange County, California check cashing business, was arrested this morning on federal charges that accuse him of procuring and illegally exporting rifle scopes, laser boresighters and other tactical equipment from the U.S. to Syria, in violation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: An employee of the U.S. Department of the Navy pleaded guilty today to accepting more than $250,000 in cash bribes from three people making unauthorized liquor purchases from the Navy Exchange Service Command where he worked, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Leo Lamont of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s (NCIS) Northeast Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice today released a report detailing the convictions of members of transnational criminal organizations during the third quarter of the Fiscal Year 2017. The report highlights this Administration and the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of criminal groups seeking to cause Americans harm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: A Los Angeles, California woman was sentenced to 65 months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to cash stolen and fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury checks, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of California.
