News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Scam Allegedly Generated More Than $200,000 Meant for Special-Needs Students.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that George Grant, age 44 of Walthill, Nebraska, was convicted by a federal jury of one count of aggravated sexual abuse. Grant is facing up to fifteen years in prison. The case was heard before Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on, “Powering America: Consumer-Oriented Perspectives to Improve the Nation’s Electricity Markets:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROMAN WILLIAMS, age 36, of Pensacola, Florida, pled guilty today to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nominations of Jeffery Gerrish to serve as Deputy United States Trade Representative, Gregory Doud to serve a Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Jason Kearns to serve as a member of the International Trade Commission (ITC)...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing to consider the nominations of Gregory Ibach, of Nebraska, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs and William Northey, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 52-year-old resident of Corpus Christi has admitted he attempted to meet two underage girls for the purpose of sex, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jayron Khalil Foster, age 21, of Riverdale, Maryland, was charged by federal criminal complaint on April 26, 2017 with production of child pornography. The complaint was unsealed today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burning near Mt. Harvard Estates this winter. The burns will be located 5.5 miles north of BuenaVista, Colo.; 0.5 mile East of U.S. Highway 24, and immediately northeast of the Mt. Harvard Estates subdivision (T13S / R79W / S 13). There are approximately 2,000 hand-built piles consisting of Piñon Pine limbs, and the surrounding fuels are Piñon Pine, Juniper and grass.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On October 5, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice (Department) actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty today to an immigration crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Victor Guevara-De La Paz, 35, entered his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: James Clay Waller, II, age 45, pled guilty today to one felony count of Interstate Domestic Violence. He appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - More than 216 NPS employees from 85 national parks and offices across 32 states continue to support parks in South Florida and the Atlantic Coast to help them ready for reopening. Parks plan to open more areas throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: James Clay Waller, II, age 45, pled guilty today to one felony count of Interstate Domestic Violence. He appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge man convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter and Discharge of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on, “Powering America: Consumer-Oriented Perspectives to Improve the Nation’s Electricity Markets:"
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - In order to manage our public lands for the benefit of current and future generations through pursuing our multiple-use mission, the Bureau of Land Management High Desert District plans to conduct prescribed fires in the Rawlins Field Office this fall and winter. The prescribed fires will be contingent upon fuel moisture and weather meeting optimal burn conditions. The treatments will only be implemented if specified prescription parameters are obtained.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ignacio Beato, age 46, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to 51 months’ imprisonment, followed by three months supervised release for conspiracy to engage in monetary transactions through a financial institution, with funds that were the proceeds of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEMEECO SAMPSON, also known as “Meeco," 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Judge Thompson also ordered SAMPSON to perform 100 hours of community service.
