News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that the Abbreviated Final General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/EIS) for Assateague Island National Seashore is available on the NPS Planning, Environmental and Public Comment website at.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: An owner of a contracting firm, Christopher Sorrentino, 51, of Macomb Township, was charged today in an information with one count of structuring financial transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant used social media persona “musclehead320" to promote steroid sales.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Dameon Q. McDonald (38, Plant City) to 12 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine and 5 grams or more of methamphetamine. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Nigerian citizen in the U.S. on a student visa was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 46 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $615,555.12 in restitution for his role in what has become known as a “Business Email Compromise" (BEC) scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the constitutional crisis in Guatemala...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Timothy Coughlin (619) 546-6768 and Carlos Arguello (619) 546-6684.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation and Washoe County Water Conservation District will conduct a negotiation session for a repayment contract for the costs of work on Boca Dam in California. The work was done under the Safety of Dams program and negotiations are conducted pursuant to the Safety of Dams Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-578, 92 Stat. 2471) as amended.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served of 20 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. -During the 2017 Great American Eclipse, thousands of national and international visitors took advantage of prime viewing and camping opportunities on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office. The BLM estimates that more than 10,000 people flocked to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted a Chicago police officer of federal civil rights violations for using unreasonable force against two individuals while on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Houston, Texas man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARTURO CASTRO, 53, of Wilmette, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for traveling to Connecticut to engage in sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Barbara L. Snyder, 59, West Salem, Wis., pleaded guilty Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, to wire fraud and filing a false income tax return. The fraud and tax charges stem from Snyder’s embezzlement of over $832,000 from St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Onalaska, Wis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joshua D. Chapman-Sexton, 31, of Buckeye Lake, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 292 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for receiving and possessing child pornography while on supervised release.
By State Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to a letter from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson outlining organizational changes related to special envoys and related positions at the State Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: AUG. 28, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau today began the Address Canvassing operation for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test across three test sites.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JACQUES FLEURIJEUNE, 28, also known as “Magic," a citizen of Haiti last residing in New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately five months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two defendants were sentenced to prison today for federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Malik Muhammad Abdull Williams, 24, of Michigan, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent...
