News from January 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - During the coming months, fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Color Country District and Utah’s Division of Forestry Fire and State Lands will burn slash piles on public lands near Dammeron Valley in Washington County and personnel from the BLM will burn piles in Beaver County, along the Beaver River, south of Highway 21, two miles east of Minersville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Timothy Roberts (46, Missouri) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Passaic County, New Jersey, was charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Michael Andrew Davila, age 27, of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, today to 175 months in prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for transportation of a minor for prostitution. Judge Hazel also ordered that upon his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara A. Stingley (619)546-8403 or Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619)546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew P. Young (619) 546-7981,Benjamin Katz (619) 546-9604 or Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing titled “Backpage.com's Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking." Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say regarding the hearing...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: BOISE - National Park Service Branch Chief for Structural Fire, Hal Spencer, has hung up his fire helmet after thirty-six years with the federal government. Since 2007, he led the Service’s Structural Fire Program co-located at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho with other branches within the National Park Service Division of Fire and Aviation.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD- On Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) began draining the watered canal section from Lock 20 (Towpath Mile 14) to Lock 23 (Towpath Mile 22). The draining will allow for a topographic survey to be conducted by park staff in order to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: JAN 10 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Alejandro Prosper, also known as “Pun," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) met with the nominee to serve as United States Trade Representative (USTR), Robert Lighthizer, and issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the nomination hearing for Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The ex-wife of a former Chinese government official has pleaded guilty to charges that she conspired to fraudulently obtain visas to enter the United States through the immigrant investor program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Former Maryland Delegate and Prince George’s County Councilman William Alberto Campos-Escobar, age 42, of Hyattsville, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to federal charges for taking bribes related to the performance of his official duties. The guilty plea was entered under seal on January 5, 2017, and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Latin King gang member Felix Dominguez-Rivera, age 38, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment on January 9, 2017, by United States District Court Judge John E., Jones, III, for distribution of cocaine and heroin and possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: As part of National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch yesterday announced the Justice Department’s National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking (National Strategy), as required by the 2015 Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. U.S. Attorney for the Southern...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting an open house Jan. 18 in Craig to discuss management of roads and trails on 370,000 acres of BLM-administered lands in Moffat County.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is reminding people that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2017, visitors in personal or rental vehicles wishing to view sunrise at Haleakalā National Park will need to make sunrise viewing reservations ahead of time at recreation.gov. The online reservation system has been implemented...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service is putting on hold the signing of the Record of Decision and the publication of the Final Rule for Dog Management at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The ex-wife of a former Chinese government official has pleaded guilty to charges that she conspired to fraudulently obtain visas to enter the United States through the immigrant investor program, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation.
