News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Robert J. Golden, Jr., 37, of Laconia, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Oct. 23, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Richard Chalmers, age 41, of Pittston, Pennsylvania to 96 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions recognized 202 department employees for their distinguished public service today at the 65nd Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony. Nineteen other individuals outside of the department were also honored for their work. This annual ceremony recognizes individuals...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A twice-removed Dominican national with felony drug convictions was among three recently arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York after detainers lodged against them were ignored by local authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on Disappearance of Two New Jersey Boys Missing Since 1975.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he commissioned on U.S. counternarcotics spending in the Western Hemisphere. The report is the first comprehensive look at how U.S. counternarcotics dollars are spent in the Americas and represents a positive step for transparency and accountability in this area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dwayne C. Hans pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of computer intrusion. The charges arise from a series of frauds that Hans masterminded between July 2015 and October 2016, including by masquerading as an authorized representative of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during the debate of H.R. 469 the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ronald Roy Blaylock, Sr., 34, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Yanel Greene, a/k/a “Nel", 37, of Brewer, Maine; and Syriane Baldwin, a/k/a “Del", 31, and Quindell Smallwood, a/k/a “Queezo", 37, both of Bangor; pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and distributing...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write with great alarm about the recent increase in hateful and discriminatory speech and conduct in schools across the country. We are deeply concerned that President Trump’s tweets and remarks have normalized bigotry, racism, homophobia, and misogyny and that his behavior...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Outbreak was the largest public health crisis ever caused by a pharmaceutical product.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) today released a report written by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) that details results from an investigation into the Trump Administration’s decisions to pull Affordable Care Act (ACA) advertisements just a few days prior to the end of the 2017 open enrollment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions recognized 202 Department of Justice employees for their distinguished public service today at the 65nd Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony. This annual ceremony recognizes individuals for their outstanding service and dedication to carrying out the missions of the Department of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Photographs by Karen Regan will be featured at Cape Cod National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center in November. The exhibit is part of the national seashore’s ongoing series, Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to Chairmen Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes’ sudden announcement yesterday of a Republican-led investigation into the Uranium One deal...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration today announced the expansion of its TSA Pre✓® expedited screening program to five additional domestic and international carriers. Now in operation, the five new partnering airlines are All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Contour Aviation, Finnair and Korean Air. Today’s announcement brings the number of airlines participating in TSA Pre✓® to 42 domestic and international carriers.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE- In keeping with the Administration’s goal of achieving American energy dominance, the Bureau of Land Management today announced that it will hold an oil and gas lease sale in December of 900 tracts within part of the 22.1-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). The bid opening will be conducted via video livestream. Production of oil derived from sales will help replenish the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
Release: WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Bradley International Airport (BDL).
