News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Memorial Day Weekend; a time to honor those who have fallen serving our country, and the unofficial start of summer. It is Zion National Park’s busiest weekend. Last year over 70,000 people visited the Park, with Saturday being the busiest day with 28,000 guests. While the Park is extending...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Budget that was submitted to Congress today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: The House today passed the Improving Support for Missing and Exploited Children Act (H.R. 1808) by a voice vote. Introduced by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill updates the Missing Children’s Assistance Act to strengthen national efforts to recover and protect missing and exploited children.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that John Cutler, 34, of Delevan, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Rich and Linda Crooks, volunteer interpretive hosts at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM), Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (ONA) on the central Oregon coast, have been awarded the BLM’s national “Making a Difference Lifetime Achievement Award," for contributing more than 7,000...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bakersfield Field Office is issuing fire restrictions effective immediately for federal public lands in several Central California counties to respond to increasing fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), and House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of the administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s FY 2018 budget request...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Effective on May 24th, all districts of the Tonto National Forest and the Tonto National Monument are going into Stage 1 Fire Restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dover, Mass. insurance broker was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston in connection with filing fraudulent personal tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Mustafa Hasan Arif, 37, an individual with dual citizenship in Pakistan and the United Kingdom, was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison for his role in an extensive international wire fraud scheme, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on May 22, 2017, Kathy L. Hansen, 36, of Gresham, Nebraska, was sentenced for her involvement in an income tax scheme. The Honorable Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Hansen to a three (3) year term of probation. Hansen was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $11,557.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced today that five current and former executives of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe’s Big Coulee District in South Dakota pled guilty in federal court on May 5, 15, and 18, 2017. The guilty pleas were to charges that include Conspiracy to Commit Embezzlement from an Indian Tribal Organization and Embezzlement from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal jury in Fresno today found former Fresno deputy police chief Keith Foster, 53, guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal jury in Fresno today found former Fresno deputy police chief Keith Foster, 53, guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today a settlement with the Richland County Board of Elections & Voter Registration to ensure accessibility of polling sites to persons with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gerald Mercer, 42, Jamal Haynes, 39, Makimba Barry, 39, and Craig Richardson, 39, were indicted by a federal grand jury on May 18, 2017, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced today. Mercer, an officer with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: New Orleans Man Arrested by FBI and Charged with 75 Counts of Possession of Child Pornography.
