News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is lifting its fire restrictions Sunday, Dec. 3, on approximately 404,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura counties.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Farmington District is selling Christmas tree cutting permits at the Farmington Field Office, Taos Field Offices, and the New Mexico State Office in Santa Fe.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of five members to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board. The producers appointed to serve three year terms are.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, today made the following statement marking World AIDS Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury today found MARIA SOLY ALMONTE, a/k/a “Soly Almonte," a/k/a “Soly La Fuerte," a/k/a “SoSo," a/k/a “SoSo Wavy," a/k/a “Soly Montana," guilty of sex trafficking of minors, sex trafficking conspiracy, and use of interstate commerce to promote illegal activity. ALMONTE was convicted following a two-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Defendant sold heroin and cocaine to Columbia Point Dawgs.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois man, who had already been serving probation on a previous child pornography conviction, was sentenced Nov. 16 to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to new child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: A Brownstown Township man was sentenced to 5 years in prison today after pleading guilty to defrauding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency out of over $726,000, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mark Matis, age 29, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 58 months’ imprisonment for his role in the sex trafficking of a minor in early 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Ward Christopher Royal Wanted by the Richmond FBI Central Virginia Violent Crimes Task Force For Armed Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington D.C., lawyer was sentenced today to five years in prison for distributing videos of child sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC), demonstrating that partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on Dec.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Three defendants were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering. On November 8, 2017, Sanford Eugene Johnson III, 31, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 151 months in prison. Yesterday, William Brett...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Kurt Pomrenke to Serve Two Months in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The former mayor of south suburban Markham solicited and received bribes from vendors while in office in exchange for steering them city business, according to a 12-count indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: An Ann Arbor man pleaded guilty today to devising and executing a plan to access and cause damage to the Washtenaw County government computer system, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
