News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Virginia resident was convicted today of identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former bank vice president pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed charging Eulogio Bautista, an undocumented alien from Mexico, with producing a false identification document after he obtained a Pennsylvania driver’s license in the name of a person who is a citizen of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christopher Lashawn Chamberlin, 40, of DeKalb, Mississippi, was sentenced on July 20, 2017, on charges that he conspired to defraud the government by preparing and filing false tax returns using stolen identities provided to him by others, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jerome McDuffie.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - As part of the Administration’s priority to make America safe through energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is evaluating a Lease-by-Application (LBA) for Peabody Energy’s Twentymile Coal Foidel Creek Mine near Hayden, Colo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who earned nearly $1.3 million while working in Dubai over a three-year period pleaded guilty today to failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Juneau man was sentenced to federal prison for the distribution of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: A team of biologists has accomplished two herculean feats in Hawaiian plant conservation: the successful reintroduction of the endangered Ka‘ū silversword (Argyroxiphium kauense) and Pele lobeliad (Clermontia peleana) on Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— This tragedy demonstrates the brutality of the network of which I often speak. These smugglers have no regard for human life and seek only profits. The Department of Homeland Security and its partners in the U.S., Mexico and Central America will continue to root out these smugglers, bring them to justice and dismantle their networks.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2017
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: A search began in the park yesterday for Sajean Geer, a 71 year old Port Angeles resident missing for several days, after her vehicle was identified at the Obstruction Point trailhead by park law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Effective on July 21st, all districts of the Tonto National Forest and the Tonto National Monument fire restrictions are lifted. Normal fire regulations are still in effect. Fire conditions as well as localized closures and restrictions are subject to change.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2017
News Release: "San Antonio firefighters and police responded to a horrific scene this morning on the southwest side of town. They discovered an alien smuggling venture gone horribly wrong. Eight immigrants were found dead. At least twenty more were in serious condition. All were victims of ruthless human smugglers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2017
News Release: For clarification the number of persons recovered from the trailer was 39, not the 38 reported earlier. The 39th person had been in the trailer but authorities found him this morning in a wooded area nearby. The number of individuals who have died has risen to nine. All of the deceased are adult males.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: An indictment was returned July 21 charging Ikaika Erik Kang, 34, an Army sergeant first class stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Kang was previously arrested on July 8, and ordered detained pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: Hawaii Soldier Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: FBI Statement in Response to Reporting on Robert Levinson.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2017
News Release: The staff of Rocky Mountain National Park invite you to celebrate World Ranger Day with them as they recognize world conservation areas, and the professional staff, the rangers, that form the Thin Green Line around these most valuable resources. The free program will be held on Monday, July 31, from...
