News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese national was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with taking the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and TOEFL exam for other Chinese citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Whitman, Mass. police sergeant was sentenced today in connection with misappropriating funds from the accounts of disabled veterans while he was a fiduciary appointed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and for preparing false income tax returns for clients of his tax preparation business.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
Release: Wichita, KS-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has fully implemented new carry-on baggage security procedures at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Crystal Lynn Norris, age 27, of Florence, SC, was sentenced today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Manufacture and Pass Forged and Counterfeited Securities, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 371. United States District Judge Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Norris to 16 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin L. Nash, of Moundsville, West Virginia was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of nine new U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). The AGAC was created in 1973 and reports to the Attorney General through the Deputy Attorney General. AGAC represents the U.S. Attorneys and provides advice and counsel to the Attorney General on matters of policy, procedure, and management impacting the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Studio photographers may be familiar with the 1,000-watt quartz halogen lamps known as “FELs." Scientists use them too-specially calibrated ones, at least-to test the performance of light sensors that monitor Earth’s weather, plant life and oceans, often from space.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Imagine coordinating hundreds of trucks delivering more than 4,400 cubic yards of grout night and day for weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An Arizona man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer during a federal impoundment operation of Cliven Bundy’s trespassing cattle in the Bunkerville, Nevada area in 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An EM Office of River Protection (ORP) annual competition provides a forum for creative ideas that could lead to cost savings and efficiencies for Hanford ’s tank waste cleanup mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Former Federal Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Damon Coleman was sentenced to prison today for engaging in sexual conduct with an inmate under his custodial authority while Coleman was working at the Federal Detention Center (“FDC") in downtown Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Leesville man was sentenced last week to 40 months in prison for taking part in counterfeiting $100 bills in order to purchase prepaid cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWIN ESCRIBANO, also known as “Bebo," 25, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to distributing heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “Response and Recovery to Environmental Concerns from the 2017 Hurricane Season." Today’s #SubEnvironment hearing marked the third hearing the committee has held examining the recent series of unprecedented hurricanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 9, 2017, Judge J.P. Stadtmueller, sentenced former Neshkoro banker Geffrey Sawtelle, (age: 64), to two years in prison following his conviction on three counts of bank fraud, in violation of...
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in the House of Representatives on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (H.R. 2810 )...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Congressman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. today raising questions over reports that NIH has quietly discontinued dedicated funding for gun violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Powder Springs, Georgia has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of failure to register under SORNA, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, PA - In partnership with the Families of Flight 93 National Memorial, the Friends of Flight 93 and the National Park Foundation, Flight 93 National Memorial announces that Leonard S. Fiore, Inc., General Contractor, from Altoona, PA, wasawarded the construction contract for Flight 93 National...
