News from June 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A high-ranking member and former Los Zetas hitman was sentenced Wednesday to seven consecutive life imprisonment sentences for committing numerous murders, and drug and weapons trafficking in Northern Mexico to support a drug distribution operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRANDON J. GRIMLAND, age 42, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 190 months imprisonment, and 6 years of supervised release for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez sentenced 46-year-old Mexican National Mauricio Sanchez-Garza to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for laundering millions of dollars in Sinaloa Cartel drug proceeds United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Later today, Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York on charges relating to the operation of extortion, money laundering, and narcotics trafficking schemes that ultimately resulted in Veliu’s sale to law enforcement of over a dozen...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers recently shut off the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) ventilation system, moving the main processing facility closer to demolition this summer. Watch a brief video about the work here.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $63,000 civil penalty against Terrazzo USA & Associates, Inc., of McLoud, Okla., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, 49-year-old investment counselor Charles Augustus Banks, IV, an executive with Gameday Entertainment, LLC (Gameday), was sentenced to four years in federal prison for defrauding a San Antonio victim of millions of dollars announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: JUN 28 - (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) - Porsha Session, 31, of Boynton Beach, Florida, a Broward County School District employee was sentenced in federal court to three years in prison for obstructing a drug investigation. Session previously pled guilty to obstructing an official proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of McKean, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 34-year-old Marciano Millan Vasquez, a high ranking member and a former sicario for the Los Zetas drug cartel, to seven (7) consecutive life imprisonment sentences for committing and aiding and abetting the commission of numerous murders and other acts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man charged with stealing his late great aunt’s Social Security benefits for 18 years made his initial court appearance today, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Three Birmingham area men have pleaded guilty in federal court to a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in the Northern District of Alabama, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at the full Committee hearing with the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on United States’ interests at the United Nations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced James Donald Jacola (54, Green Cove Springs) to five years in federal prison for receiving images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children over the Internet. He must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his computer equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ ALENE - Rebecca C. Buell, 48, of Post Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge in Coeur d’Alene for concealing assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. She was sentenced to three years probation, including 150 hours community service, and ordered to pay $38,960.53 in restitution. Buell pleaded guilty to the felony charge on Jan. 31, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee is set to pass H.R. 3017, Brownfields Enhancement Economic Redevelopment and Reauthorization Act of 2017, authored by #SubEnvironment Vice Chairman David McKinley (R-WV). H.R. 3017 would reauthorize and make improvements to the EPA Brownfields Program, encourage EPA, states, and local governments to work together to redevelop properties, create jobs, and provide for economic development.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today will vote on H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017, authored by #SubEnvironment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL). H.R. 3053 provides practical reforms to the nation’s nuclear waste management policy to ensure the federal government’s legal obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste be fulfilled.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today passed eight #SubEnergy and #SubEnvironment bills aimed at modernizing the nation’s energy infrastructure, environmental laws and enhances the nation’s energy security.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Second executive also agrees to plead guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, July 8, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special living history program exploring the prevalence of “Wide Awakes" in the Union Army of the Cumberland. Programs will take place at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center at 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, and 3:30pm.
