News from October 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao urging for more transparency in the cost of U.S. air travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: After receiving bribe payments that were thrown into his Baltimore City issued vehicle Defendant Wade boasted that that the source of the bribes was, “good for life with me. " and later laughed and stated, “we in cahoots now. ".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: A four-count indictment was returned this morning by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Thomas J. Spota, the Suffolk County District Attorney, and Christopher McPartland, the Chief of Investigations and Chief of the Government Corruption...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recognized 202 department employees for their distinguished public service today at the 65nd Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony in Washington, DC. Gregg Peterman, Supervisory Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, received national recognition...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two Beckley felons pleaded guilty today to federal gun charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Ryan Henry Guerrant, 26, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. In a separate prosecution, Clennel Pierre Cobb, 45, also pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - On Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. three area law enforcement agencies will be partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration to give the public its 14th opportunity in 7 years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -A Newark man today admitted robbing a Newark jewelry store and then stealing a car at gunpoint immediately afterwards, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GARRETT PARTMAN, age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one count Indictment charging him with interstate transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Temesia A. Green, 44, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to three drug and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recognized 202 Department of Justice employees - including seven from the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY") who received the Department’s highest award for employee service - for their distinguished public service today...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Richard Wellbeloved-Stone Charged in Four-Count Federal Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: David Scott Glasrud of Southwest Learning Centers Pleads Guilty under Agreement Recommending Sentence within the Range of 48 to 63 Months of Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of robbing a bank in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on H.R. 215, the “American Indian Empowerment Act of 2017." Introduced by Chairman Emeritus Don Young (R-AK), the bill authorizes federally recognized tribes to lease and regulate their own lands and eliminate federal government restrictions that interfere with economic development.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert J. Higdon, Jr., District Attorney Scott Thomas, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announce the arrests yesterday of eight defendants pursuant to three federal indictments for drug and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. 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 | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan A. Tokash, who is handling the case, stated that on May 21, 2015, the defendant provided information to his parole officer, law enforcement officers and a prosecutor regarding two homicides and a robbery/kidnapping. Mills stated that he saw his cousin, Thamud Eldridge...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: In his inaugural address, President Trump said that “every decision" on taxes would “be made to benefit American workers and American families." So, it’s no surprise that the unified tax reform framework released last month was crafted with working families in mind...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ.- National Park Service (NPS) and US Forest Service (USFS) fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, anticipate initiating more prescribed fire (Rx) treatments this week as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In a ceremony this afternoon at the Department of Justice in Washington, five Assistant United States Attorneys are receiving the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security for being part of the federal team that responded to the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
