News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Thurston Lava Tube (Nāhuku) will be closed from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Thurs., June 1 for semi-annual maintenance of the comfort station.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in partnership with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, has temporarily closed a portion of the American River Bike Trail along Lake Natoma due to landslide activity that began Jan. 22, south of Negro Bar.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The editor of a newspaper that covers the Sunland/Tujunga area has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Agility Public Warehousing Co. KSC (Agility), a Kuwaiti company, has agreed to globally resolve criminal, civil, and administrative cases arising from allegations that Agility overcharged the United States when performing contracts with the Department of Defense (DOD) to supply food for U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A jury has found a 26-year-old Norman, Oklahoma man guilty of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today for stealing more than $85,000 in public housing benefits over a six-year period and for providing false statements to a government agency, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement in response to a committee requested report from the nonpartisan government watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Yucca Mountain Restart Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Defendants Cheated IRS out of Approximately $500,000.
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement in response to a committee requested report from the nonpartisan government watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Yucca Mountain Restart Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the father of a man convicted of leading a large-scale drug-trafficking conspiracy in Columbia, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for threatening the attorney who represented one of his son’s co-defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Joseph Asmar, a citizen of Lebanon, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to a money laundering charge for laundering funds he believed to be drug money. Asmar was arrested in Paris, France, in October 2015, on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York, and was extradited to the United States on Dec. 21, 2016. The guilty plea was entered before United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano.
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement in response to a committee requested report from the nonpartisan government watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Yucca Mountain Restart Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today for stealing more than $85,000 in public housing benefits over a six-year period and for providing false statements to a government agency, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. -The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Waterton-Glacier Mushroom BioBlitz June 9 and 11 at Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks. Visitors will work alongside taxonomic experts to document fungal diversity, and learn more about...
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: The Democratic staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee today released state-by-state analysis of the impacts President Trump’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget would have on all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to conduct an approximately 4,500-acre prescribed burn, located 20 miles southwest of Roswell and south of Highway 13, in late May and early June, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Victor Manuel Castillo, aka “Victor Manuel Garza," 44, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Nathan A. Madsen (37, Tampa) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for enticing a child to produce child pornography and for possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered...
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced the following staff announcements for the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
