News from November 2017
By DOL Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing on “Financial Challenges Facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Implications for Pension Plans, Workers, and Retirees."
By USDA Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the award of two grants to help rural water and sewer utilities recover from recent and future natural disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb spoke with members of the media today about Monday’s launch of a state-wide opioid abuse prevention campaign. The initiative seeks to inform the public and spur...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service at the Eisenhower National Historic Site and the Gettysburg Foundation invite you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. The Eisenhower home will be decorated for Christmas, December 1 through 31, 2017. The celebration includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Attorney Admits Theft of DOJ Documents Months Before Leaving Government Employment in Bid to Boost Usefulness As Private Litigator.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: US Extradites Former Salvadoran Military Officer to Spain to Face Charges for Participation in 1989 Jesuit Massacre.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 38, the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 4477, the “Fix NICS Act of 2017."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Ruslan Reizin and Mark Krivoi with extortion conspiracy. The charges stem from the defendants’ alleged extortion and violent assault of a teenage victim who started an awning-cleaning business in Brooklyn...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt, sentenced TEVIN TIA’MANE NORWOOD, 25, of Oxford, NC to 100 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Federal indictments and criminal complaints were unsealed yesterday against 30 Savannah residents charged with federal firearms, drug trafficking, robbery, and related offenses. The charges are the result of joint federal, state, and local efforts to reduce violent crime and drug activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - On November 8, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a 7-count indictment charging five defendants with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of marijuana and money laundering. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Build a log cabin, and learn how to make a bow from a piece of wood at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Gale Robert Gibbs, 67, formerly of North Platte, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 37 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for possessing child pornography. Gibbs was also ordered to pay $1,000.00 in restitution to the victims and will serve 10 years of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A longtime fugitive was named today in a nine-count indictment that alleges he participated in a $9 million loan fraud scheme that targeted Wells Fargo Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing to follow President Trump’s strong leadership on combatting the deadly opioid crisis, Attorney General Sessions today announced new resources and stepped up efforts to address the drug and opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A former employee of a U.S. government contractor in Afghanistan was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for accepting over $250,000 in illegal kickbacks from an Afghan subcontractor in return for his assistance in obtaining subcontracts on U.S. government contracts.
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A 47-year-old former Pharr city commissioner has been convicted in connection with a scheme to defraud Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
