News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: LOS BANOS, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation releases for public review the draft operation and maintenance contract for the C.W. “Bill" Jones Pumping Plant, Unit #6, between the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nikolay Souslov, a/k/a “Nikolay Glukhov," a/k/a “Nikolai Kuznetsov," a/k/a “Nikolai Burov," age 70, and a citizen of Russia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for alien smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced that a Texas pilot has pleaded guilty today to federal wire fraud and arson charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after being named to the conference committee on the Republican tax plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was charged today in connection with his role in two conspiracies in connection with construction projects at Picattiny Arsenal (PICA) and at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix Lakehurst (Ft. Dix) and for endeavoring to obstruct justice, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released an updated version of a report on trophy hunting and endangered species protection that his staff initially released in 2016 in response to the tragic killing of Zimbabwe’s famed Cecil the Lion. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Armando Adame, age 21, from Waterloo, Iowa, has been charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge is contained in a complaint unsealed today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We are extremely troubled by the President’s promotion of three inflammatory, doctored videos from a British far-right Twitter account rife with anti-Muslim content. These retweets-official statements from the President, according to Administration officials-present a serious danger...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Vallejos, 25, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Vallejos will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation with Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to authorize the recently-released United States Postal Service Alzheimer’s research stamp for an additional six years, providing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., filed a superseding indictment on Dec. 5, 2017, in the criminal case against Susan Harris, 71, and Sharon Moore, 62, the co-founders of Ayudando Alpha, Inc., d/b/a “Ayudando Guardians, Inc." (Ayudando Guardians or Ayudando), a now defunct...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Two Associates of La Cosa Nostra Plead Guilty to Extortion-Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Justin Bailey Rhodes, age 27, of Greenville, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Greenville for Possessing a Firearm In Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, sentenced Rhodes to 100 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Superseding Indictment Adds Two New Defendants, William S. Harris and Craig M. Young, Husband and Son, Respectively, of Previously Charged Defendant Susan Harris; Also Adds Five New Money Laundering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza announced that grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging CHRISTOPHER BARRETO, 28, of Hartford, with one count of distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Marco DeCamillo, age 41, of Reading, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to one count of mail fraud stemming from the sales of misbranded body armor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Ozark, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a scheme to sell counterfeit automotive airbags and components online.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Death Valley, CA--Through the holiday season, citizen scientists will once again fan out across America and America's national parks to count birds. One of the longest running citizen science events in the world, the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) began in 1900. It provides reliable data that help demonstrate the importance of national parks to birds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: DENVER - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado today sold 23 parcels totaling 22,073 acres for $337,840 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale.
