News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
The US Interior Department published a three page proposed rule on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Two men who were involved in the delivery of a fatal dose of heroin to a young member of the Quileute Tribe were each sentenced June 12, 2017, to 42 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. HUGH BROWN, 60 and EDWARD FOSTER, 56, and co-defendant Casey Marie Ward, 28, sold heroin to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jermain Santell Hill, 38, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former employee of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security pleaded guilty today to defrauding the government of approximately $198,000 in funds paid under the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act (FECA), commonly referred to as workers’ compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Wilbert James Veasey, Jr., 65, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas on a health care fraud conspiracy conviction, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Igor Finkelshtein, 45, of Getzville, NY, who was convicted of making and subscribing a false tax return, was sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $20,000 by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Tuesday to six months home confinement and 50 hours of community service for a bank robbery he blamed on a fight with his wife, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Ryan Steve Magee, a citizen of Canada, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 97 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,372,573 in restitution, following his guilty plea in February 2017 to one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 41-year-old man from Laredo, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of the conspiracy possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Esequiel Villarreal pleaded guilty Dec. 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 35-year-old former Central Texas Detention Facility-G.E.O. prison guard Barbara Jean Goodwin was sentenced to federal prison after admitting to having sexual relations with an inmate, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; United States Marshal David Sligh; and, Christopher Combs, FBI Special Agent in Charge, San Antonio Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Energy Department’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced a $15.9 million investment in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) research and development. Four projects have been selected to receive up to $2.4 million for phase 2 research, while an additional $13.5 million is available under a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support SOFC prototype system testing and core technology development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 34-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Federal Prosecutors Join with Tribal Leaders to Combat Opioid Epidemic in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A doctor and his chiropractor son today admitted conspiring to defraud Medicare by using unqualified people to give physical therapy to Medicare recipients, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: A Massillon man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for enticement and distribution of child pornography, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write to inquire about reports that the U.S. Department of Education (“Department") is considering delaying the implementation of the borrower defense regulations that protect students who were cheated, defrauded, and left drowning in debt by predatory colleges. Delaying this...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared an Environmental Assessment on the effects associated with granting the Truckee Meadows Water Authority $300,000 for the Municipal Well Aquifer Storage and Recovery Retrofit Project for Drought Resiliency through a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously convicted twice of federal charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Horne: As Ranking Members of the House Committee and Subcommittee with jurisdiction over the General Services Administration (GSA) Public Building Service, we have repeatedly written to you seeking information essential to our constitutional oversight duties. You have failed...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability’s (OE) Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration (ISER) Division has discontinued publication of the Energy Assurance Daily (EAD) which provided a daily summary of publicly-reported energy sector events. Given the ease with which the public...
