News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Eight defendants have been charged in a multi-count indictment, for their participation in an elaborate automobile fraud scheme that netted over $1.67 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: James Johnman Jr., 36, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania and a registered Megan’s Law offender, was charged today by Indictment with attempted enticement of a minor, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House of Representatives today passed House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act (H.R. 1644). The bipartisan bill strengthens sanctions targeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un regime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - The former Chief Accounting Officer for a Memphis business conglomerate has pleaded guilty to mail fraud. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men face federal drug trafficking charges after they were arrested earlier this week at Los Angeles International Airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin in luggage on two commercial airline flights.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with making threats to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Task Force Officer.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - This year's National Fall Prevention Safety Stand-Down, from May 8-12, encourages companies and workers to observe a pause during the workday for topical discussions, safety demonstrations, and training in hazard recognition and fall prevention.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Three Hialeah residents were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robberies, after robbing two Hialeah jewelry stores and attempting to rob a third store.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s executive order subverting civil rights protections under the guise of religious freedom...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - ATF agents and local task force officers fanned out across Tuscaloosa County today to arrest defendants indicted last month as part of a drug ring trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine in the county, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido and West Alabama Narcotics Task Force Captain Wayne Robertson.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, condemned President Trump for signing an executive order that would facilitate discrimination of LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the guise of religious freedom.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened a hearing of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to examine the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and policy options to protect energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Fortino Arellano-Hernandez, 50, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on May 4, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Arellano-Hernandez received time served, plus ten days, to be followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania biofuel producer and two of its officers were indicted on May 3, 2017, on conspiracy and false statements charges for participating in a scheme that generated over $10 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) renewable fuels credits (RIN credits) at Keystone Biofuels, Inc., a company that purported to produce and sell biodiesel for use as transportation fuel.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Martinez, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ojo Encino, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to federal child abuse charges. The plea agreement recommends that Martinez be sentenced to five years of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: KANAB, Utah - Weather in Southern Utah can be unpredictable. Frequent changes in elevation, constantly shifting winds, rapidly falling and rising temperatures, even the variation of landscapes from sagebrush flats to slot canyons can combine to make safely working or recreating in the backcountry challenging, particularly on the Bureau of Land Management’s remote Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Erwin Keith Bell, age 36, from Clinton, Iowa, has been charged with one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen and improve career and technical education (CTE). Introduced by Reps. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) and Raja Krishnamoorthi ...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared an Environmental Assessment for the City of Fresno School District Water Conservation Project. The EA details a proposed $300,000 WaterSMART: Water and Energy Efficiency Grant to seven schools to install high efficiency irrigation systems. Once the project is completed, the city will conserve an estimated 11 acre-feet per year with a savings of 1.33 acre-feet per acre at each school campus.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. C A federal jury found Alexander Nathan Norris, 28, of Davis, guilty of distribution and possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
