News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that he will present a check in the amount of $153,660.07 to Rock County Sheriff Robert Spoden today, representing the proceeds from the sale of convicted sex offender David Wenzel’s property. The property was sold through the Federal Asset Forfeiture Program because Wenzel, 59, used his home to manufacture child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: Charles Cravens, 47, the former Sheriff of Fentress County, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JESSE KENT COX, age 35, of Coweta, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for WIRE FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $52,250.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Angel Sanchez, 35, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $30 million in funding for 21 innovative projects as part of the Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors (CIRCUITS) program. CIRCUITS ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking public comment on several changes to entrance and campground fees under consideration for Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments in 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On Sept. 15, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District will auction (through an oral competitive bid) up to 8 grazing units, ranging in use from 9 to 36 months, on the McGregor Range on the west side of Otero Mesa. Prior to the auction on Sept.8, the BLM will conduct a pre-bid, bidder’s tour of the grazing units.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: p>ROCKFORD -A Rockford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon on July 18, 2016. DEONTA M. NEWTON, 29, was sentenced to 103 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Newton pleaded guilty to the charge on March 17, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for answers from the Department of Defense on what it is doing to track and reduce improper payments. The department’s Inspector General estimated that there were...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the arrest late Tuesday of Albert Larry Harris (27, Lake County) on a federal criminal complaint charging him with receipt of a bribe by a public official. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Hassayampa Field Office, has extended the public comment period an additional 15 days for the Kirkland Mining Company Pozzolan Mine environmental analysis in Skull Valley, Ariz. The new deadline for public comments will be Sept. 11, however, it is only the first of two formal comment periods during the process.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, NM - The Bureau of Land Management’s Las Cruces District is hosting a public workshop to provide an update on the development of the Solar Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Afton Solar Energy Zone in southern New Mexico. The workshop will be held on Sept. 7 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Rd. Registration will start at 8 a.m., and the workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an hour lunch break.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced an indictment charging STEVEN MARKUSEN, 63, and JAY COPE, 58, with multiple counts of wire fraud in a stock trading scheme.[1] MARKUSEN and COPE will make their initial appearances in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: Phase-outs, home interest deduction, marriage penalty or marriage bonus, state and local deductions, charitable contributions, investment interest, exclusions, limitations, credits…and the list goes on.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Brianna Rattigan, age 24, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Aug. 22, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to conspiring with others to distribute heroin in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2017
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office is lifting fire restrictions for all BLM-administered lands within the boundaries of Sublette and Teton Counties effective Aug. 24, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in reaction to the appointment of Tony Tooke as the new U.S. Forest Service Chief.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - A Mexican national wanted in his native country for aggravated homicide was deported Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
