News from May 2017
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following President Trump’s nomination of Henry Kerner to be Special Counsel at the Office of Special Counsel...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Morales is currently under indictment in Guatemala for alleged serious human rights offenses, including those committed at Dos Erres massacre.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping and Assault of a Dating Partner by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Honduran national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - An indictment charging the former Tabasco, Mexico, Secretary of Finance has been unsealed following the arrest of his wife in the Houston area, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jose Manuel Saiz-Pineda, 49, served as the Secretary of Finance of the Mexican State of Tabasco from 2007 to 2012 under former Governor Andres Granier Melo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a West Valley, Utah, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CAROL “CASEY" SMITH, 56, of Chester, Virginia, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to a federal charge related to his false certification of bridge inspection vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK, N.Y. - - Later today Gustavo Bermudez-Vanegas will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on an international cocaine distribution conspiracy charge. The defendant was arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from Colombia to the United States on May 25, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation prepared a Final Finding of No Significant Impact associated with providing a grant agreement providing $121,691.78 to the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) to conduct a research project to improve conservation and management of the federally endangered longhorn fairy shrimp in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a controlled Substance was sentenced on May 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Boston - A Holyoke woman was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with bank fraud and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Diallo Dotson, Charleeta Cork and Simone Watkins were sentenced in federal district court this week for conspiring to defraud the United States through the filing of false income tax returns to receive fraudulent federal income...
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: TWIN FALLS, ID -We’re sick of it - and we know you are too! The blight of shot up junk trashing our public lands has plagued many a recreationist, rangeland management specialist, wildlife biologist and all who enjoy the amazing vistas our public lands offer. The Bureau of Land Management is raising awareness of this cultural problem through its Don’t Dump Idaho campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita business owner pleaded guilty Friday to withholding more than $258,000 in taxes from employee salaries that he failed to paid over to the government, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges relating to his operation of a fraud scheme that took $2.2 million from distressed homeowners through false promises that he could help them avoid foreclosure by obtaining modifications to their mortgages.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - Owing to receding river water, the BLM has reopened several popular recreation sites along the Salmon River.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Faith, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 15, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that the United States has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against SLCE ARCHITECTS, LLP (“SLCE"), by consent decree. The suit alleges that SLCE violated the federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA") by failing to...
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. -- Towell Falls Road in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District’s Rock Creek management area will remain closed to motorized traffic this year. This route particularly susceptible to wildfire ignition from vehicle use due to the presence of tall vegetation on the roadway during...
