News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for providing employment authorization documents and concealing his employment of an undocumented immigrant at a hair salon he owned, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO - DEA Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric S. Birnbaum invite the community to attend the screening of an impactful documentary film created to educate the community about opiate addiction.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) released the following statement after opening a joint investigation into decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Nicolas LaShawn Finley, a/k/a “Shy," a/k/a “Shy Money," a/k/a “Shakim Karim," entered a guilty plea in federal court in Greenville to three counts of Possession of a Firearm By a Convicted Felon, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Defendants allegedly ran large scale commercial marijuana cultivation and distribution operation.
By State Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Tillerson: We write to urge you to exercise your authority to relist North Korea as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The world looks to the United States to lead in responding to the dangerous nuclear belligerence of Kim Jong-un. Duly relisting his regime as a State Sponsor of Terrorism...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that John U. Carroll, Ann Carroll, Courtney Carroll, Jay G. Carroll, Mary C. Carroll, Mary Rita Carroll, Ralph Carroll, Mary Gorman, Tina Gorman, Thomas Martin Mack, Rachel McNally, Billy O'Hara, Jim O'Hara, Winnie O'Hara, Hugh...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of its commitment to improve the visitor experience and ensure America’s national parks are protected in perpetuity, the National Park Service (NPS) is considering increases to fees at highly visited national parks during peak visitor seasons. Proposed peak season entrance fees and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Oct. 23, 2017, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Darrell Rasean Ratliff, age 28, of Davenport, Iowa, to 120 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Ratliff was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following imprisonment and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW THIBODEAU, 72, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to three months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for embezzling more than $70,000 from his union.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nathan Hoffman, 57, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to four years in prison for conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Michael D. Towner, 58, of Los Angeles, California, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with sixteen counts of wire fraud. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of Wednesday’s hearing on the Republican effort to tear up the multi-state conservation plan for greater sage-grouse habitat - a negotiated product meant to forestall the bird’s listing through the Endangered Species Act - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) questioned in whose interests Republicans are acting, given the lack of demand from the military branches they claim to be helping or from Western states that support the conservation plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time 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 24, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CURTIS A. ANTHONY, 51, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for child sex trafficking, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - With hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Burma, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing to assess U.S. policy towards Burma, including geopolitical, economic, and humanitarian considerations. The committee heard testimony from senior U.S. officials with the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, LLC (FRNP), a CH2M-led company with partners Fluor Corporation and BWX Technologies, Inc., commenced work under a new Paducah Deactivation and Remediation (D&R) Contract at EM’s former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant on Oct. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man who was arrested with a rifle used in a homicide was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison on a federal firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Order and Verdict Issued Against Dynamic Visions, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Leominster man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for distributing Oxycodone pills and possessing two loaded guns.
