News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of attempt to obtain contraband in prison, and immediately was sentenced to 17 months in prison, consecutive to the current prison term he is serving, followed by three years’ supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has opened a 30-day protest period on a proposed resource management plan amendment and environmental analysis for the Headwaters Forest Reserve near Eureka.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant STEVEN WANG, aka SHUI CHENG WANG, age 53, from Tamuning, was sentenced today in District Court to a 57-month term of imprisonment for Mail Fraud, Visa Fraud, Money Laundering...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a senior Democrat on both the Oversight Committee and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent a letter to President Donald Trump strongly condemning...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Mexican national was arrested Monday for allegedly attempting to smuggle more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly $32 million in funding for small business-led projects to further develop clean energy technologies that have a strong potential for commercialization and job creation. These awards will help small businesses advance their promising concepts that improve manufacturing processes, boost the efficiency of buildings, increase transportation sustainability, and generate electricity from renewable sources.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced Patrick Emanuel Sutherland, 48, of Charlotte, to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for filing false tax returns and obstructing a federal grand jury investigation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Sutherland was also ordered to pay $597,122 as restitution to Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced two crack-cocaine wholesalers for the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips were each sentenced today to 18 years in prison for their roles in racketeering and drug trafficking conspiracies operating in Newark.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant STEVEN WANG, aka SHUI CHENG WANG, age 53, from Tamuning, was sentenced today in District Court to a 57-month term of imprisonment for Mail Fraud, Visa Fraud, Money Laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Found Guilty of Defrauding Public Assistance Program.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The woman who died in Big Bend National Park on Sunday, June 18th, has been identified as Cathlyn Weir of Cedar Hill, Texas. A cause of death is yet to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL KLEIN, the former treasurer of the Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department (“MVFD"), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel to 77 months in prison for wire fraud, subscription to false tax returns, obstruction of the grand jury, and false statement charges arising out of his embezzlement of more than $5.6 million from the MVFD.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the availability of $20 million for cost-shared oil and gas research projects to increase recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and gas wells and to prevent offshore spills and leaks. This new funding opportunity seeks projects...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: A Senate vote on Trumpcare is just days away, we’re told, even though the bill remains hidden in the shadows. So I’m here with my colleagues this afternoon to shine a light on the extraordinary harm Trumpcare would do to women’s health across America, and to call on the public to stand up and say this is wrong - to make your voices heard and bring this partisan process to an end. I want to tick through a few key issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Ramón Orta, former Secretary of the Department of Sports and Recreation (PR DRD), his Special Assistant Edgardo Vazquez-Morales, and four other individuals have been indicted and arrested for their participation in a conspiracy to steal federal funds involving fraudulently obtained...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On June 21 to 22, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General (USDA OIG) hosted over 100 federal and state regulators, criminal investigators and prosecutors from across the country for an animal fighting investigations training held at the National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., led 16 members of Congress calling on the executive branch not to use a secretive process for national security investigations into steel and aluminum imports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a purported business consulting firm was arrested today for operating a $1.1 million scheme that artificially inflated the stock price of a publicly traded company he controlled, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Bobby Napier was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment for bribing a public official, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down yesterday by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, United States District Judge, following a guilty plea in which Napier admitted to committing the crime.
