News from August 2017
By EPA Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Trump today signed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, into law. The House passed the bill last month and the Senate passed the bill earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Richard A. Souders, 41, of Hartsville, Tennessee, was sentenced today by visiting United States District Court Judge Marvin Aspen, to 60 years in prison for production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Jasmuel Ray Robertson and Blaine County Deputy Sheriff Monty Goodwin acted in self-defense when shooting Jonathan Richard Daukei, age 38, on July 19, 2017, in Blaine County, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: A superseding information was filed in federal court charging the former Assistant Director of the UAW Chrysler Department with criminal violations of the Labor Management Relations Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Richard A. Souders, 41, of Hartsville, Tennessee, was sentenced today by visiting United States District Court Judge Marvin Aspen, to 60 years in prison for production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: John Hamilton, the former top elected official of the 18,000 member Operating Engineers Local 324, International Union of Operating Engineers, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit extortion, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Andria Victoria Booker, a/k/a Andria Victoria Crosby, 37, most recently from Charlottesville, North Carolina, was sentenced this morning before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve 12 months in federal prison for making false statements to obtain federal employees’ compensation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman (619) 546-6717.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - With hundreds of thousands of visitors traveling across Oregon to view the solar eclipse, Bureau of Land Management officials encourage visitors to plan ahead. Before heading out, check local offices for updates on road closures and other restrictions due to wildfires and other emergencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Torrey, UT - Capitol Reef National Park is seeking public comment on a proposal to increase the entrance fee for private vehicles and restructure the group campsite fee rate beginning in 2018. All other fees will remain the same.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Unprecedented seizure of over 66 pounds of methamphetamine confiscated, along with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, marijuana and 17 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Katie Carrillo, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to conspiracy, fraud, identify theft and theft of mail charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announces that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced DWIGHT CHRISTOPHER BROWN, 33, of Durham, to 120 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. On Feb. 14, 2017, BROWN was found guilty by a jury of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Perry County couple, who owned several trucking companies, have both been sentenced to 56 months’ imprisonment, for defrauding and extorting more than 65 of their customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Three men today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Today, the Ranking Members of the congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma raising concerns over the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Weatherby Lake, Mo., Police Chief Gary McMullin has received the Award for Lifetime Achievement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: KCPD Detective Honored for Stalking, Cyberstalking Investigation.
