News from May 2017
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Acting Administrator Huban Gowadia requesting documents relating to the process used by TSA to manage potential conflicts of interest among appointees.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Every two years, the Judicial Conference of the United States undertakes a comprehensive survey of all judicial circuits to determine whether to request additional bankruptcy judgeships and whether any temporary bankruptcy judgeships should be extended.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal charges against Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) Officers Blane...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: MAY 03 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Darnell Robinson, a/k/a “Butta," age 30, of Auburn, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin. He pled guilty on Jan. 12, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation selected four submissions to receive prizes in its downstream fish passage at tall dams' prize competition. Briana Connors of Cincinnati, Ohio, won the first prize of $10,000. The remaining three prizes will share $10,000. This prize competition was developed to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that yesterday a federal jury convicted CORNELL PENDLETON, age 51, of the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans, for his role in laundering money on behalf of heroin dealers in the New Orleans area. Following a weeklong trial, the jury found PENDLETON guilty...
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Bayfield, WI - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 183,797 visitors to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in 2016 spent $29,270,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 456 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $35,700,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Calvin Strong, age 25, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months of imprisonment for possessing a handgun and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Drew Alia, 40, of Philadelphia was sentence to a 12 month and 1 day term of imprisonment for willfully failing to file federal income tax returns for tax years 2010 through 2013 announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Alia, an attorney, operated a home mortgage rescue service that was designed to assist home owners who were facing foreclosure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former resident of Aliso Viejo has been found guilty of 15 counts of health care fraud for submitting bills to insurance companies that sought millions of dollars in reimbursement for tests and services that were never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Two Lima men were convicted by a federal jury of human trafficking charges for their roles in a conspiracy in which girls, then 14 and 16 years old, were forced into commercial sex acts, said Acting U.S. David A. Sierleja, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office, and Lima Police Chief Kevin Martin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis real estate investor has pled guilty to a charge of bank fraud. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney, announced the guilty plea today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman and welcome Mr. Secretary. We appreciate you being here in your new capacity; now operating on a bigger stage and with the even greater responsibility that comes with the duties of the Secretary.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday held an oversight hearing to examine federal payments to local governments provided through the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) and Community Self-Determination Act and the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. She also cosponsored bipartisan legislation introduced today by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to reauthorize the SRS program.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim will open as scheduled May 15 with limited visitor services despite major storm-caused breaks in the only pipeline that supplies its water.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A Madison County Sheriff’s Office detective, assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force [ICAC], was arrested this morning and charged via federal criminal complaint with four counts relating to the sexual exploitation of minors, Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Hong, 21, of Canada, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Acting Administrator warning that the agency’s continued failure to comply with a Committee-issued subpoena will lead to “serious consequences."
