News from October 2017
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed three bipartisan measures that target Hezbollah’s ability to finance its terror and recruit new members...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONAS JOSEPH, also known as “James," 34, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to eight months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a scheme to stage car accidents for the purpose of defrauding automobile insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to possessing child pornography, including images and videos of infants and toddlers being sexually abused.
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Small was sentenced to 8 months in prison in connection with his theft of funds from the Kinloch Fire Protection District.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on today’s court ruling rejecting a temporary stay that would have required the Trump Administration to resume out-of-pocket cost reduction payments.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for answers on what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is doing to ensure agencies comply with its ban on use of Kaspersky Lab products on American government...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the leader of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal judge convicted an Alexandria man today on charges of arson after throwing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to an apartment building in Alexandria.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: As part of its commitment to improve the visitor experience, the National Park Service is considering increases to fees at highly visited national parks during peak visitor seasons. Proposed peak season entrance fees and revised fees for road-based commercial tours will generate badly needed revenue for improvements to the aging infrastructure of national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI announced today that David Scott Glasrud, the former administrator of Southwest Learning Centers in Albuquerque, N.M., has pleaded guilty to federal theft, fraud and false statement charges arising out of a 15-year scheme to defraud millions of dollars from the group of public charter schools he founded.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tx.), and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2017 to direct the Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Curtis Hilton Trafficked Meth from Arizona into the Roanoke Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Higgins, who handled the case, stated that between April 2015, and September 2015, the defendants conspired with Shaquata Hennings, Arthur Clark, Shahana Beaver, and Janice Humphrey, to ship, receive, and distribute more than 50 packages containing marijuana sent from Denver, Colorado, to Buffalo, New York. The defendants also conspired to send the cash proceeds from resulting marijuana sales back to their marijuana source of supply in Denver.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Kenneth Bailey, 52, of Weare, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to six counts of distributing controlled substances.
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 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 Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has finalized an environmental analysis of a proposal to replace or relocate irrigation pipelines in the Central Valley to accommodate guideways for the Merced to Fresno section of California’s High Speed Rail Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis supports the DEA in its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 28th. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at thousands of collection sites around the country, including 30 here in the District of Idaho. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Two Arrested in Douglasville, Georgia, on Federal Drug Trafficking Related Charges.
