News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a half-day meeting addressing drugs, violent crime, and public corruption in Indian country will be held in Porcupine, South Dakota, on Thursday Sept. 28, 2017. The event is hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I., man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Edwin Ruiz, 30, of Derry, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of possession with intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former investment adviser in Chesapeake pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of investment adviser fraud and one count of conducting unlawful monetary transactions.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application period for innovators to join the second cohort of Innovation Crossroads (IC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). IC, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds the next generation of top technical postdoctoral talent within ORNL as entrepreneurial researchers to address fundamental energy and manufacturing challenges identified by industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Sept. 19, 2017, Neal Allen Holland, 28, of Madisonville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 151 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Following his release from prison, Holland will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 15 years and required to register with the sex offender registry in any state in which he resides, works, or attends school.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore welcomes artist Todd Marsee as the 2017 Artist-in-Residence (AIR). Marsee, an award-winning Michigan watercolorist from Ann Arbor, MI, will live and work in the national lakeshore for three weeks starting on September 18 as part of the park’s annual AIR program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Asplundh Tree Expert, Co., one of the largest privately-held companies in the United States, was charged today by Information[1] with one count of unlawfully employing aliens, in connection with a scheme in which Asplundh accepted and received identification documents knowing those documents to be procured...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Huntley man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of bankruptcy fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 52-year-old Mexican citizen has been ordered to federal prison for attempting to smuggle firearm parts kits, components, receivers and magazines to Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Alejandro Cavazos, 52, pleaded guilty Feb. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay $174,196 in Restitution to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department (“Yonkers PD")...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., with Trade Subcommittee Ranking Members Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn., and Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., D-N.J., today called for the Administration to act immediately to end foreign labor practices that undercut American workers and cost U.S. jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Battle Mountain, Nev. - On September 29 from 9:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. the Bureau of Land Management will host a National Public Lands Day habitat improvement event at Ferris Creek, located just south of Crescent Valley, Nevada. As stewards, the Bureau of Land Management manages public lands for the benefit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Hope Kissinger, 35, Eau Claire, Wis., was sentenced on Sept. 18, 2017 by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to two years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by three years of supervised release. Kissinger pleaded guilty to this offense on July 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant possessed and distributed pornography involving children aged 10 and younger.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California - Volunteers are invited to Joshua Tree National Park to participate in the 24th Annual National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 30, from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm. National Public Lands Day(NPLD) is the largest single day of volunteerism each year on America’s public lands. It is also a fee-free day for visitors to the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Waymart, Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting another inmate with a homemade weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SEPT. 19, 2017 - This summary provides quarterly estimates of state and local government tax revenue at the national level, as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. The report produces three tables: Tables 1 and 2 include income and sales data, and Table 3 provides tax collections by state.
