News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, July 17-21, the Bureau of Land Management joins the Department of the Interior in celebrating the Trump Administration’s “Made in America" Week. With responsibility for managing more than 10 percent of the nation’s land and 30 percent of its subsurface minerals, the BLM supports American-made goods and services in many ways.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Tuesday, July 25 entitled “Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Current Terrorist Threats." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Twenty-seven-year-old Keondre McNeely, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for possessing a stolen firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Along with codefendants Jorel Gefferard and Roscoe Manns, Keondre McNeely played a central role ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - There is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against Albuquerque Police Department (APD) officers involved in the fatal shooting of James Boyd, the Justice Department announced today. Officials from the Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: Last year, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee asked the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) to examine the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) procedures for retaining and producing electronic documents. The Committees made...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that the Washington State Supreme Court and the Washington State Court Administrator published a to assist its state courts in ensuring access for all limited English proficient (LEP) individuals to court services and programs. The LAP and...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management will sponsor a wild horse and burro adoption at Cheyenne Frontier Days, and will also provide public land information at the General Land Office in Old Frontier Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: On Friday, July 14, 2017, a federal jury in Miami convicted Gerti Muho, 33, of Ridgewood, New York, for devising and executing a three-year fraud scheme that targeted various banks, lenders, and companies, including his former New York-based hedge fund employer and numerous real person victims.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mother Lode Field Office is temporarily closing the Briceburg Visitor Center, along with McCabe Flat, Willow Placer, and Railroad Flat campgrounds along the Merced River due to the Detwiler Fire.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
Release: CHICAGO - TSA officers today discovered a firearm at the security checkpoint at Midway International Airport (MDW). This is the third firearm detected in carry-on luggage at MDW in less than a week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Raul Castellon, 38, of the Hialeah Police Department, and Neilin Gonzalez Diaz, 32, of Hialeah, were sentenced today in Miami, Florida, by U.S. District Court Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern District of Florida, to 60 months and 81 months in prison, respectively, with an order for forfeiture and restitution in the amount of $64,500 to follow. Castellon and Gonzalez Diaz previously pled guilty to corruption, access device fraud, and identity theft charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on onshore oil and gas development in Alaska. Panel members highlighted the many benefits for Alaska and the Lower 48 if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) were opened for responsible exploration and development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Nicholas G. Peacock, 33, of Salisbury, North Carolina, pled guilty yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola to enticement of a minor and interstate travel for illicit sexual activity. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the President of the United States once again rooting for the failure of the health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Ruiz Leyva, 37, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 82 months in prison for assaulting federal law enforcement officers. Leyva will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: KEY LARGO, Fla. - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a South Florida utility company and related contracting company after the agency’s investigation into the deaths of three workers who succumbed to toxic gases in a manhole on Jan. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brian LaChance, age 28, of Olyphant, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy, for using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Of Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 74 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Miami man was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for depositing over $4.7 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks as part of a massive stolen identity income tax scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
