News from November 2017
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released two funding opportunities for fiscal year 2018 through its Drought Response Program, which is part of the Department of the Interior’s WaterSMART program. These funding opportunities are available for entities to develop drought contingency plans and build long-term solutions to drought.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The National Park Service (NPS) has released a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of a new concession contract to provide Guided Interpretive Day Hiking and Backpacking Services in Glacier National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting information about the security clearance application that reportedly was submitted by Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of President Donald Trump’s fired National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kewon D. Johnson, age 24, of Albany, pled guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The Cleveland Division of the FBI, The United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District and the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department announce the arrest of a Cuyahoga Falls man charged with interstate threatening communications and destruction of evidence.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the situation in Zimbabwe...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: North Carolina Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Former Rutherford County Tennessee Sheriff's Chief Administrative Deputy Sentenced on Federal Corruption Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - On Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, Cornell Lamar Abram, 38, of Gulfport, pled guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to two separate indictments charging him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after he was arrested trying to film people showering at Geneva State Park, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the results of Operation Raging Bull Thursday. Operation Raging Bull included arrests of 214...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Lorenzo Bratcher, 23, and Isaiah Buck, 21, both of Cincinnati, with conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence in an indictment returned in Cincinnati. Bratcher was also charged with possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Timothy Bennitt, age 27, of Rolling Prairie, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Five Laredoans have been ordered to prison following their convictions for their roles in smuggling firearms into Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - On Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, Rodrigo Hernandez-Garcia, 32, an illegal alien living in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to 8 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced U. S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Raymond Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of Immigration Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: “Unfortunately, the jury in the trial against Norman Seabrook and Murray Huberfeld was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. We look forward to a retrial where we will present again the powerful proof of how Seabrook allegedly sold his duty to safeguard correction officers’ retirement money to Murray Huberfeld in exchange for cash bribes. Although justice has been delayed, we expect it will ultimately prevail.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Raul Francisco Torres-Perez, of Elizabethtown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 13, 2017, Torres-Perez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Oct. 1, 2011 and Jan. 10, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The Cleveland Division of the FBI, The United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District and the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department announce the arrest of a Cuyahoga Falls man charged with interstate threatening communications and destruction of evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Three people have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of money laundering for their participation in a Houston-based bank fraud and money laundering scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
