News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - 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, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Gardner, Mass., man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to traffic counterfeit steroids marketed on social media to bodybuilders and sold to customers around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Flameville Legend Boys gang pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to illegal possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine the administration’s approach to trade policy and its fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget request...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ANDREW SACCO, 44, of New Haven and formerly of Durham, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to charges stemming from his participation in a large-scale fencing operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to a federal immigration crime.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Conservation and Forestry: Perspectives on the Past and Future Direction for the 2018 Farm Bill."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today on a federal sex trafficking charge for allegedly arranging a commercial sex encounter for a 16-year-old girl that ended in the child’s murder in a south suburban garage on Christmas Eve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five doctors today admitted taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Michael J. Ward is Charged with Falsifying Data and Causing the Discharge of Polluted Water from a Paper Mill in Norfolk, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DAVID CHUKWUNEKE ADINDU pled guilty this morning before U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Andrew J. Spieles Caused 18 False and Fraudulent Voter Registration Forms to be submitted to the Harrisonburg Registrar’s Office in Connection with the November 2016 National Election.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The 11th annual Pollinator Week kicked off nationwide on June 19, 2017. This celebration is hosted by the Pollinator Partnership, a diverse group of government, business, and educational partners that work to promote the health of pollinators, which are critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Everardo Laurian pleaded guilty to theft of government money announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the Police Department for the City ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Late Saturday night, June 17, the Water Supply and Storage Company, who operates the Grand Ditch, notified Rocky Mountain National Park staff of a leak at an old culvert at the intersection of Lady Creek with the Grand Ditch. The resulting leak caused some of the ditch bank surrounding the old culvert...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly met today with President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama to reaffirm the strong relationship between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Panama on migration, law enforcement, and air, land, and maritime border security priorities.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA, June 20, 2017 – Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay; Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food Jose Calzada; and United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement at the conclusion of their first trilateral meetings in Savannah, GA, June 19-20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: As the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that 12 cities are joining the Department’s newly organized National Public Safety Partnership (PSP). The announcement came during ...
