News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison for administering a group that shared images of toddlers being tortured and sexually assaulted, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Former California Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to File Fraudulent Tax Returns and Cashing Stolen Refund and Social Security Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Based in Bakersfield, Defendants Brought Drugs from Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) today announced up to a $12.3 million for a new funding opportunity to advance crosscutting research that enhances fossil energy power system efficiency. As part of FE’s Crosscutting Research Program, research and development efforts are intended to create cost-effective progress toward achieving benefits for electric generating units and industrial plants that use fossil fuel. The five focus areas are as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, June 24, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer a guided hike to the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, highlighting its significant paleontological and recreational resources. The three-mile hike will begin at 8:00 a.m. from the second parking lot located near the Monument entrance, and will last approximately three hours.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Elko District employee Clint Mothershead has become the first BLM employee to receive a Smokey Bear Award since the program began in 1957.
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 DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), today held a hearing to examine the implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The members and witnesses discussed stories of success in workforce development since the enactment of WIOA, and the need for the federal government to continue a timely implementation of the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Robert Doggart, 65, of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 235 months in prison for soliciting another person to violate federal civil rights laws by burning down a mosque...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kyle Gordon, age 29, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 75 months’ imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Possession of a Weapon in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Search efforts continue in Grand Canyon National Park for missing hiker, 72 year-old Raafat “Ralph" Nasser-Eddin of Los Angeles, CA and Lebanon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment charging Frank Weir, 55, of Shrewsbury, with possessing a machine gun without a permit and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Both counts identify the same Thompson U.S. Navy 1928 submachine gun, 45 caliber (manufactured by Colt).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found MICHAEL GRAMINS, 33, of New York, N.Y., guilty of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - 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: Alberto Cruz-Gonzalez, of Avondale, PA was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about May 11, 2017, Cruz-Gonzalez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Nov. 17, 2015, Nov. 22, 2015, March 6, 2016, April 4, 2016, and June 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Gerald Wallace, 35, of Miami, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a hate crime charge for obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by threatening to shoot members of a mosque in Miami Gardens, Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM and federal contractor official highlighted more than $100 million in costs savings at cleanup sites at a June 7 panel discussion on Capitol Hill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed The VETERAN Act, sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), and the Broader Options for Americans Act, sponsored by Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Gloucester woman was charged today in federal court for her role in a conspiracy to traffic steroids and launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARRION YOUNG, age 32, pled guilty yesterday to being a felon in possession of a firearm and making false statements to federal agents.
