News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: West Valley City, Utah-The BLM-Utah West Desert District (WDD) has re-issued a fire prevention order that addresses year-round and seasonal fire restrictions. These restrictions apply to BLM-lands in Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele, Rich and Box Elder Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged in federal court in Boston yesterday with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - With a final plea today three Houston men have now been convicted for their roles in a $1 million narcotics trafficking conspiracy, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Preston James, age 39, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to distributing crack cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, hosted a press conference with Katy Neas of Easter Seals, Will Fischer of Vote Vets, and Kathryn Cook, a mother of a child with disabilities in the military to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SAMUEL ALBARRAN, also known as “Sam Dog," 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 85 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for heroin distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to consider the nomination of former U.S. Ambassador Mark Green to serve as administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two new reports showing a decline in enrollment and ongoing participation in Obamacare’s collapsing individual insurance marketplaces...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rasheen Newkirk, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced the Save Oak Flat Act, which repeals an unjustified congressional giveaway of sacred Native American land to a mining company called Resolution Copper co-owned by multinational mining conglomerates Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is introducing a companion bill in the upper chamber today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Settlement covers alleged improper billing. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky allergists Bruce Wolf and Kiro John Yun, have agreed to pay $740,578 to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. Wolf and Yun, P.S.C. (W&Y) is a medical practice group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: As part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is one of 10 federal districts in the United States that formed an Elder Justice Task Force. The Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced its task force here in March 2016, and maintains a website for the public to access here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A San Diego man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing more than 30 packages of methamphetamine through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a former information technology official with the Department of Commerce today of conspiracy to pay and receive bribes, and acceptance of bribes by a public official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dujuan Pleasant, age 35, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Jeromy Reeves, 27, of Fullerton, California, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for using fake drivers’ licenses to fraudulently obtain approximately $24,000 of iPhones at local wireless retailers, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also sentenced Reeves to three years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) today issued a draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) seeking comments from industry and the public for the Low-Level Waste/Mixed Low-Level Waste (LLW/MLLW) Disposal procurement. This effort will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Andre Antonio Walters, 37, of Long Beach, today to six years and one month in prison and a $15,000 fine for four counts of mail fraud for his role in a significant unemployment benefit fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BLAST (Building Lasting Relationships Between Police and Community) Program Brings Law Enforcement and Communities Together.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: St. George, Utah (June 15, 2017) - Effective Friday, June 16, the Bureau of Land Management Arizona Strip District, including the Grand Canyon Parashant-National Monument (BLM/NPS), Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and Arizona Strip Field Office will implement fire restrictions in Northwestern Arizona.
