News from December 2017
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today praised passage in the House of Representatives of a resolution he authored underscoring the importance of a United States-Mexico partnership based on mutual respect (H.Res.336 ). The resolution calls for the deepening of our relationship through increased security and economic cooperation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - 21st Century Oncology Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates have agreed to pay $26 million to the government to resolve a self-disclosure relating to the submission of false attestations regarding the company’s use of electronic health records software and separate allegations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bakersfield Police Department, the United States Attorney’s Office, the California Department of Justice, the California Highway Patrol, and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced the result of a multi-agency operation...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Harrison, AR: Around midday on Sunday (12/10) two separate fires were reported along Arkansas Highway 21 on the north side of Boxley Valley involving a combination of private and national park lands. By Monday the two fires had coalesced into one and continued to burn within the containment zone while...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago investment manager has been indicted for allegedly swindling more than $10 million from clients and lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against the Internet of Things (IOT).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: A man who fired shots at a campus church was sentenced today to the statutory maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: On December 13-14, 2017, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia, the Environmental Crimes Section of the United States Department of Justice - Environment and Natural Resources Division, and the United States Department of Agriculture - Office of Inspector General - Investigations will be hosting a regional animal cruelty prosecutions training in Valdosta.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking, Loansharking, Gambling and Obstruction Offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today issued a report detailing the Administration’s intended funding cuts to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) state, local, and national counterterrorism programs based on an FY 2019 budget document DHS received from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was provided to the Committee by a whistleblower.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the Obama administration’s 20-year withdrawal of more than 1 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon from new uranium mining claims. The ruling is an enormous blow to the National Mining Association (NMA), which filed a lawsuit in 2011 seeking to block the withdrawal, and other special interests who had called Obama’s actions illegal.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: PRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that seven Springfield, Mo., residents are among 11 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute at least a kilogram of heroin in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Thomas Gene Duncan to 25 years in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release. Duncan pleaded guilty on Aug. 29, 2017, to one count each of the production and possession of child pornography...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: EM’s Chief Engineer John Marra chaired an independent panel of experts that recently recommended DOE stabilize a second waste storage tunnel at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant (PUREX) on the Hanford Site using engineered grout. EM Update's Q&A with Marra is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Parsons, West Virginia man and woman have admitted to firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Mill Creek, West Virginia, man has admitted to failing to update his sex offender registry, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Patricia Parsons, 50, of Brighton, Tennessee, was sentenced to sixty months in federal prison for aiding and abetting solicitation to commit kidnapping. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: There will be a press conference today at 12:00 p.m. to announce federal terrorism charges against Akayed Ullah in connection with yesterday’s bombing at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The press conference will be livestreamed at.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District has approved the Washoe County School District Sun Valley School Campus Project. The WCSD plans to construct a Middle School and other future school facilities within an 80 acre parcel. The project area is located in Sun Valley, north of Reno, in Washoe County. Construction s expected to start in late 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national previously charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston.
