News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake, announced today that twenty-seven individuals have been arrested on state charges for drug and firearms violations. Additionally, a federal indictment has been unsealed charging Rico Reid, a/k/a “Deuce", age 40, of Moncks Corner, with multiple heroin distribution and firearms charges. ATF has a federal warrant for Reid’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Demar Neal (a.k.a. “D"), 31, was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge Christina Reiss to a six-year term of imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland area in 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Humberto Ginez-Edmundo, 26, of Mexico, to 34 months in prison and one year of supervised release on fraudulent identification document conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An Elk Grove man was arrested today on charges of sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON, Mass. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb announced that Cory Nickerson, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to 71 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In March 2017, Nickerson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Bobby Napier was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment for bribing a public official, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down yesterday by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, United States District Judge, following a guilty plea in which Napier admitted to committing the crime.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award of $7.5 million for a joint U.S.-India five-year project that will help advance the development of the power grid. The Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and industry partners will match DOE’s commitment, bringing the total...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Senior Judge Sue L. Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware today ruled in favor of the Justice Department’s civil antitrust lawsuit to block radioactive waste disposal provider EnergySolutions’ $367 million acquisition of rival Waste Control Specialists. Judge Robinson entered an order ruling in favor of the United States and enjoining the merger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: On June 21 to 22, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General (USDA OIG) hosted over 100 federal and state regulators, criminal investigators and prosecutors from across the country for an animal fighting investigations training held at the National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The middleman in a foreign bribery scheme pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering charges for his role in a scheme to bribe a foreign official in the Middle East to land a real estate deal, and to defrauding his co-schemers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today issued the following statement on the attack at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan: “I’ve just spoken with officials at the FBI about the attack on a police officer in Flint, Michigan that is being investigated as an act of terrorism. President Trump ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in Madison, Wisconsin indicted a Johnson Creek, Wisconsin produce vendor corporate officer today for tax evasion, failure to file a corporate tax return, and structuring currency transactions, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey M. Anderson for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued the host state loan-to-deposit ratios that they will use to determine compliance with section 109 of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994. These ratios replace the prior year's ratios, which were released on June 17, 2016.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced the availability of the 2017 list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies, where revitalization or stabilization activities are eligible to receive Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) consideration under the community development definition.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The Department of Commerce concluded its fourth SelectUSA Investment Summit (Investment Summit) on Tuesday, setting records for total registrations and participating international business representatives.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 21, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jun 21, 2017
The US State Department published a one page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 21, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 21, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 21, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
