News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - On Tuesday, June 27, the Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office, including Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, will implement Stage 1 Fire Restrictions on BLM-administered public lands in Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, Montrose and San Miguel counties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statements after a Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) panel issued its report regarding Guatemala’s compliance with the labor provisions in CAFTA...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man was convicted today of distribution of heroin near a playground, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - SUSAN MICHELLE TYSON, 50, of Yukon, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton to wire fraud relating to her theft of $467,352.43 from the Oklahoma Operating Engineers Welfare Plan ("the Plan"), announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, a federal jury convicted two former Crystal City, TX, officials for their roles in a bribery and kickback scheme which decimated city coffers announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Tulsa man was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Darin E. Eldridge, 55, of Pekin, Ill., has been sentenced to 80 months (6 years, 8 months) in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm sentenced Eldridge on June 23. Judge Mihm also ordered that Eldridge remain on supervised release for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Cardiac Monitoring Companies and Executive Agree to Pay $13.45 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - June 26, 2017 - Terrence Deon Reames, aka Santos, 39, of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Riverdale, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 24, 2017, on charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise relating to the illegal importation and distribution of methylone and ethylone (Molly) announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: FIRE RESTRICTIONS. Effective Monday, June 26, 2017, pursuant to Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations, sections 1.S{a)(l), 1.S(a)(3), 2.13{c) and 2.21{a), the following acts are prohibited in Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. PROHIBITIONS:. 1. Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Juan Alexis Diaz Pena, 31, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone and unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP committee, today delivered the following remarks at a press conference regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new score for the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Crystal Ferguson, 37, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 27 year-old Dallas, Texas, man, Francisco Turrubiartes, who pleaded guilty in April 2016 to one count of production of child pornography, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 240 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming, Eastern States, Montana/Dakotas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado state offices sold a combined 175 parcels at their quarterly oil and gas lease sales, totaling approximately 128,483.94 acres and netting $8,157,900 in total bonus bids.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Washington - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has found Cathy G. Poppell responsibly connected to Poppell’s Produce Inc. in Wayne County, Ga. Poppell’s Produce Inc. failed to pay 18 of 20 sellers in the total amount of $304,614. This is a violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the updated Senate Republican Trumpcare plan, which would allow insurance companies to lock patients out from coverage for 6 months if they fail to maintain continuous coverage...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Christopher George White, age 38, of McCormick, South Carolina, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 30 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for his conviction on six counts of coercion and enticement of a minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Daniel Rios, 33, of Kern County, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Martin Patino Jr, 25, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to five years and 11 months in prison for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
