News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore.- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hosting several special interpretive programs throughout July for visitors at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center - providing lots of opportunities for visitors and families to enjoy the outdoors and learn about the old west during summer vacations. With these presentations, the BLM invites families, youth and visitors to learn how public lands connect them to America’s natural and cultural heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Admitted Filing Forged Documents, Leading to Nearly $340,000 in Ill-Gotten Gains.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: A small plastic pouch, half the size of a credit card, could soon make the nation's produce safer by killing off pathogens that make people sick. The pouch, developed with help from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, releases chlorine dioxide gas, which eliminates E. coli and other pathogens from the surfaces of fruits and vegetables.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is seeking answers from the U.S. Army on what they will do to ensure that taxpayer funds are not wasted in government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy today announced that Douglas J. Jorgensen, D.O. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which he will pay $124,110 to resolve allegations that from January 2011 through August 2014 he submitted false claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., announced today that a Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident was sentenced in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to ten years in prison followed by a 20-year term of supervised release. The underlying crime involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A McHenry County man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on four charges of robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment charging Aaron J. McDuffie, aka “G", 22, of Buffalo, NY, with possessing with intent to distribute and distributing quantities of heroin, fentanyl, butyryl fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Allegedly kept at least $550,000 in settlement amounts that should have gone to his clients.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: While other bills have been severely cut, the 2018 Homeland Security Appropriations bill would waste $1.6 billion on the President’s boondoggle of a border wall and more than $700 million on thousands of new detention beds and a thousand new ICE enforcement officers, priorities that do nothing to make communities more secure. Those funds are desperately needed to address real priorities across all of the domestic appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the 96-month prison sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy on Carlos Cruz, age 49, who used three of his children to help him distribute heroin and cocaine in Monroe and Wayne Counties during 2011-2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Nathaniel Roshaun Bowens, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 400 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released on the following statement on news that two more Senate Republicans announced their opposition to the current version of Trumpcare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Local physician Dr. Robert Rand pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter of a patient and unlawful distribution of oxycodone to another patient, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 23, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Miranda Du. At the time of sentencing, Rand faces a maximum of eight years in prison on the manslaughter count and a maximum of 20 years in prison on the drug count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Susan Kevra-Shiner, age 48, of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion to serve 24 months’ imprisonment for multiple counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Susan Kevra-Shiner, age 48, of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion to serve 24 months’ imprisonment for multiple counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for a heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kenyoda Holmes, 26, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A Dallas man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in March 2017 to one count of conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Kevin James Webster, 35, to 110 months imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Granade also ordered that Webster receive three years of supervised release upon completing his prison term, undergo substance abuse testing, and pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A McHenry County man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on four charges of robbery.
