News from August 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today criticized the Commerce Department’s announcement of a two-month delay in levying final tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber that is subsidized and dumped in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced that Senior U.S. District Judge James J. Brady sentenced SHIRLEY WHITTINGTON, age 46, of St. Francisville, Louisiana, to serve 5 years of probation following her conviction for wire fraud. WHITTINGTON was ordered to make restitution...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announces the final opportunity of the summer to participate in the Evening at the Cape Lookout Lighthouse programs which will take place on Friday, September 8, and Saturday, September 9. Bring your own flashlight and experience the island and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darold Ray ZunieFeathers, 21, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, issued the following joint statement after the Office of Management and Budget rescinded changes to the EEO-1 form...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Kim A. Earlycutt, Shannon A. King, and Marcia Farmer, have been sentenced for conspiring to submit false tax returns totaling more than $5 million over the course of four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Aug. 28, 2017, Vernon Valentino Pook Jr. was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 10 years in prison for Discharge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Judge Hovland also sentenced Pook Jr. to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to grant $186,167 to Contra Costa Resource Conservation District to implement recovery actions for the California red-legged frog and California tiger salamander through the Central Valley Project Improvement Act Habitat Restoration Program.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Acting Superintendent Jeff West announces that permits for temporary duck blinds will be available at the Harkers Island Visitor Center beginning Tuesday, September 5, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., and thereafter Monday through Friday, except holidays.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Nine felons have been arrested for possession of handguns in Baltimore City. The arrests were announced today by Acting United States Attorney Stephen M. Schenning and Special Agent in Charge Daniel L. Board Jr. of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Baltimore Field Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., welcomed the release of a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), that found Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) provide companies with savings from import duties, customs fees and other costs, while little is known about the risks FTZs pose to compliance with U.S. trade laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Travel to Syria to Join ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to “Beak Knows Best," a Junior Ranger program to be held at the Parkway Visitor Center on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, at 10:00 am. Whether it’s long or short, skinny or fat, wide or thin, a bird’s beak can tell you a lot about...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: LONGMIRE, WA - A new memorial was dedicated at Mount Rainier National Park on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017- the 101st anniversary of the National Park Service. The memorial honors four people who lost their lives in the park while in the act of saving or rescuing others. United States Congressman Dave Reichert, Superintendent Randy King and Deputy Superintendent Tracy Swartout spoke at the ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned an indictment charging Jeffrey Harris, 44, from Poulsbo, WA, Dale Lackner, 72, from Haines, AK, and Casey Richardson, 47, from Huson, MT, with conspiring to provide illegal hunts...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. -The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest checkpoint screening technology equipment at Lynchburg Regional Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD) announced the unsealing today of an Indictment charging 12 members and associates of a Bronx-based street gang known as “Square Gang" with racketeering conspiracy and a firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Mohammed Nurey Ibrahim, age 41, an Eritrean national and resident of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was sentenced today to time served (about 4 months in jail) for presenting a fraudulently obtained visa to a United States Border Patrol Agent in Champlain, New York.
By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
Release: Republic of Ecuador. Ministry of Foreign Relations and Human Mobility. Embassy of the United States of America. Quito. Note No.: MREMH-SANE-2017-0033-N. Quito, Aug. 29, 2017. The Ministry of Foreign Relations and Human Mobility, Office of the Undersecretary for North America and Europe, presents its compliments...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that David Liverman, 33, of Raymond, New Hampshire was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release for producing child pornography.
