News from October 2017
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today approved the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441). The bill clarifies what constitutes a “joint employer" to provide certainty and stability for workers and job creators.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a variety of outdoor events in October that will take advantage of southern New Mexico’s autumn weather and natural resources. The BLM events are geared to individuals, family, friends and civic organizations from all age groups. The BLM encourages the public to take time from their busy schedules to enjoy the outdoors and the wonderful resources, virtually in their backyards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Stole more than $80,000 from Vigo County taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Mosa Jamal Almahdi, 26, most recently of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 57 months’ of federal imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker, after his guilty plea to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicholas A. Long, age 30, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to willful failure to pay federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Herbert Boyd Smith, 50, of Albuquerque, with a bank robbery charge. During today’s proceedings, Smith was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Lionel Lewis Alls, Jr., has been sentenced to 20 years for distributing child pornography. In addition to sharing child pornography, Alls enticed minors as young as 8-years-old to send nude images and videos of themselves to him.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore will host an exhibit reception from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Sunday, October 8 for Wilderness Art Workshop participants. All are invited to meet the artists and see their creative works on display at the Wilderness Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - An alleged member of Chicago’s criminal street gang, the Latin Dragons, has been charged with murder in aid of racketeering, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jose Serrano Ayuso, 31, and Lilian Zapata, a/k/a Marta Arus, 52, both previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed five bills to reform the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who stole from 42 victims in connection with an investment fraud scheme was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Three Miami-Dade County residents pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to illegally export aviation parts and equipment to Syria, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The exports were sent to Syrian Arab Airlines, a/k/a “Syrian Air"...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an inmate serving a life sentence at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield was convicted by a federal trial jury today of murdering one inmate and attempting to murder another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who stole from 42 victims in connection with an investment fraud scheme was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Un Hag Baeg, 58, of Marina del Rey, a Korean national currently living in the United States, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to conspiring to defraud the United States government by evading federal excise taxes due on 143 million cigarettes sold domestically but which the co-conspirators claimed were destined for cargo vessels sailing out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Do you like to play in the snow? Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is recruiting up to two winter interns to assist with snowshoe field trips and weekend hikes. The internship will start in early January and last until mid-March. Work includes presenting curriculum-based lessons and activities on topics such as winter ecology, animal adaptations, snow science, and National Park Service mission and history.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Shirley Ernestine Molina was sentenced to 71 months in prison for wire fraud and for her role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch; Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf; and Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Individuals and entities associated with Med-Fast Pharmacy, Inc. (“Med-Fast") have agreed to resolve criminal and civil charges associated with Med-Fast’s improper submission of claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two members of a violent New Haven street gang were sentenced today in New Haven federal court for committing gang-related murders and other criminal activity. Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall sentenced JEFFREY BENTON, also known as “Tall Man," “Fresh," and “JT," 32, to 40 years of imprisonment and ROBERT SHORT, also known as “Santana," 30, to 30 years of imprisonment.
