News from July 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest security checkpoint screening technology at St. George Regional Airport (SGU).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Dear President Trump: We write to you ahead of the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urge you to prioritize the elimination of Indian trade and investment barriers that significantly harm American businesses and workers. While Indian businesses continue to benefit from open U.S. markets,...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA -- Morse code. It's just beeps in the air. Yet on July 12, 1999, some very tough-looking grizzled old radio pioneers had tears in their eyes as the last commercial Morse code radiogram was sent. It was the end of an era. And as the last beeps faded away, they witnessed the end of the career to which they had devoted their lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, today called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop taking away the rights of working people to collectively hold their employers accountable ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on Miami Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 46-year-old Bogata, Texas man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new state-by-state analysis today on what is at risk if the Prevention and Public Health Fund is eliminated under the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAYMOND J. MARTIN, 50, of Easton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport to three years of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 for his role in a steroid distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport today found JAMES C. DUCKETT JR., 45, guilty of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from a scheme involving the redevelopment of Hartford’s Dillon Stadium and a plan to bring a professional soccer team to the city. The trial before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill began on June 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Kevin Gobin, 56, of Lempster, New Hampshire, was sentenced on July 6, 2017, in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve 40 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford also ordered Gobin to serve a 10-year period of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Allegedly Cashed and Caused to be Cashed Fraudulently Obtained Tax Refund Checks Totaling More Than $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, announced that JULIO SANTIAGO JUAN-MATEO, age 28, a citizen of Guatemala, pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment returned on May 11 by a grand jury sitting in Madison, which charges Marcos Castaneda, 37, of Pomona, California, with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Charles Town, West Virginia man was convicted today of a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - David Murillo, Regional Director for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region, announces the selection of Erin Curtis as the Region’s Public Affairs Officer. In this position, Curtis will manage the Region’s public affairs, public involvement and public education programs. She will also be responsible for internal communications and media and congressional relations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A hospice company in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay to the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that it provided unnecessary hospice services, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 46-year-old local man has entered a guilty plea to distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3354 to identify solutions to streamline the permitting process for mineral leases on federal lands. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (“DEA"), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the City of Yonkers Police (“YPD"), announced today the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for mailing death threats to three federal judges.
