News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: A Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) for Denali National Park and Preserve is available for public review and comment.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) is close to transitioning from deactivation activities to full-scale demolition at the main processing facility of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today to an immigration crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Juan Us-Sajbin, 36, entered his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park will initiate a transitional schedule with the conclusion of summer tours and closure of buildings in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adrian Tom, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Church Rock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on an abusive sexual contact charge. Tom will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Hoover man on fraud charges connected to a scheme to create “synthetic identities" to obtain and use multiple fraudulent credit cards around the Birmingham metro area, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA: Win Hang Vong, 26, a former Fort Stewart Army soldier, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 74 months in federal prison to be followed 20 years of monitored supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor (49, Daytona Beach) guilty of nine counts of wire fraud. Taylor faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lisa Benally, 37, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on federal firearms and burglary charges.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - EM recently modernized a 60-year-old treatment process at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, improving the safety and cost-effectiveness of the site’s potable water system.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The National Park Service has issued its first concessions contract for wireless internet service. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, located just outside of Las Vegas, will pilot the new fiber optic technology through a five-year contract, starting Sept. 1.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 31, 2017 - USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is actively working with officials in Texas and Louisiana to ensure that people impacted by Hurricane Harvey have access to food now and after emergency operations are completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Contributed Funds to Send a Co-Conspirator Overseas to Join ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: On Friday, September 8, Dr. William J. Campbell will present the most recent findings on the treaties signed or negotiated at Fort Stanwix in the 18th Century titled “Negotiating at the Oneida Carry: The Fort Stanwix Treaties and Early North America." Dr. Campbell, an associate professor with the Department of History at the University of Memphis, will discuss a summary of his work from 11:00 a.m. to noon in the auditorium of the Rome Historical Society.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane Evans announced today that JAYVONNE JOHNSON, age 48, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor (49, Daytona Beach) guilty of nine counts of wire fraud. Taylor faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be the keynote speaker at the 30th annual Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC) conference. The United States Attorney’s Offices for the Southern, Northern, and Middle Districts of Alabama are sponsoring the conference. The Southern District is hosting the event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Chi Meng Yang, 31, of Montague, and his sister Gaosheng Laitinen, 36, of Mt. Shasta, were charged today for conspiring to commit bribery, bribery of a public official, conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, and manufacturing marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Authorities Announce Formation of Working Group to Fight Hurricane Harvey-Related Illegal Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Tuscaloosa man for illegally possessing a firearm because of several previous felony convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
