News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - Increased fuels due to the wet winter and spring, drying vegetation, high fuel loading, and increasing daytime temperatures have prompted the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Winnemucca District, Battle Mountain District, and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Santa Rosa Ranger District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Two Mexican citizens arrested together in Saratoga Springs, New York, were sentenced today for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Enson Trading LLC, which does business as Eternal Food Service, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to failing to file required IRS forms for cash transactions exceeding $10,000, and to violating Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining HRSA’s Oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Gurpreet Singh to Lose U.S. Citizenship and Will Serve a Three-Month Prison Sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Trump Administration today for suspending an increase in penalties for auto companies that violate fuel economy standards, as mandated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office is implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions for all BLM-administered lands within Albany County beginning July 11, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining HRSA’s Oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that nine members of the “Block Boyz" gang were indicted on RICO offenses, and drug and firearm conspiracies in Shreveport.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: On Monday, July 10, the formal public comment period closed for the review of national monuments. More than 1.2 million comments were received on Regulations.gov and thousands more were received via traditional mail. Twenty-seven national monuments designated since Jan. 1, 1996 that are more than 100,000 acres, or that were considered to have inadequate public input are under review in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s April 26, 2017, executive order.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced the conviction of a multi-kilogram heroin trafficker from Ascension Parish who distributed more than five kilograms of heroin between February and April of 2016. Jason Muse pled guilty to 20 counts of a federal indictment charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Miguel Angel Rosas-Ramirez and Eduardo Estrada Medina have been arraigned on federal firearm and drug charges. A federal indictment charges that Rosas-Ramirez, a citizen of Mexico, used an unlawfully obtained concealed carry permit to purchase multiple firearms, which his alien status ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced the conviction of a multi-kilogram heroin trafficker from Ascension Parish who distributed more than five kilograms of heroin between February and April of 2016. Jason Muse pled guilty to 20 counts of a federal indictment charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that the former President of the Alaska Railroad Workers Union was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage today to serve one year and a day in federal prison for embezzling approximately $92,000 in union funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Athol man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - The BLM is holding two open houses to discuss the Normally Pressured Lance Natural Gas Development Project with local communities and take public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement released last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegally trafficking two dozen firearms purchased over a weekend at a gun show in Medina County, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Trevor Velinor, ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Frederick Laron Summerset has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a convicted sex offender when he moved from Minnesota to Cobb County, Georgia in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 49-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced for his part in a conspiracy targeting federal inmates and their families in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Tatiana Renee Sallie, 20, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 138 months in federal prison for her role in committing several violent armed robberies with a group in the Dallas area in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
