News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After sending a letter to the IRS regarding the agency’s now suspended contract with Equifax, a bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting information on its data security vetting and requirements for awarding government contracts.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a rollback of the Obama administration’s favored practice of ‘sue and settle’ agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BOBBY HEMINGWAY, 36, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - The defendant charged with an illegal alien smuggling operation that resulted in 10 deaths pleaded guilty to those charges on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today an indictment charging Allen Foster, 53, Sun Prairie, Wis., with defrauding Smart Motors, Inc., a car dealership located in Madison. The indictment was returned on October 11 by a...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Storytelling is the oldest form of teaching as culture, history, and life lessons are all passed from one generation to the next in a timeless tradition which has helped set the foundation for civilization. However, not all of our treasured tales come from storytellers with two legs. Bring your children as they will be enthralled by these tales. Join Susi Wolf on Friday October 20th and discover animal fables from multiple cultures and the lessons they hold.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
Release: LEWISTON, Idaho - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest security checkpoint screening technology at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport (LWS) serving the Lewis Clark Valley of Idaho and Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Releases 2016 Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today that an Indiana County investment advisor was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment, three years supervised release and ordered to pay $1,212,663.93, on his conviction at trial of one count of securities fraud, one count of mail fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Costa Rica, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Triple Canopy, Inc. (Triple Canopy), located in Reston, has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle civil False Claims Act allegations that the company submitted false claims for payment to the Department of Defense for unqualified security guards stationed in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fled to Georgia and Was Apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A teen mentor and founder of a nonprofit youth organization has been convicted of sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Rahimi Also Convicted of Attempted Bombing for Placing Second Explosive Device in Chelsea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Maria Victoria Perez-Vasquez, 32, of Fresno and a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to transfer, possess, and sell false identification documents, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to implement new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at airports across the country with the procedures being phased in at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in the weeks ahead.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: (ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rock Springs Field Office and Boy Scout Troop 86 recently worked together to improve the Three Patches Recreation Site, located roughly 13 miles south of Rock Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Robert Eldred, 57, of Barre, Vermont, was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2017, in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve six (6) months in federal prison after his guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford also ordered Eldred to serve a five (5) year period of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a widespread heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy operating in Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Patrick Amen, 31, was sentenced in federal court Monday in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving child pornography. Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Amen to 72 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, amen will begin a five-year term of supervised release. He must also register as a sex offender.
