News from September 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
Release: CHICAGO - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport this week. The new procedures, which were announced earlier this year, require travelers to place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening in standard lanes.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it has approved a long-term application from Eagle LNG Partners Jacksonville II LLC (Eagle Maxville) to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a quantity of 0.01 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). Eagle Maxville is authorized to export ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: Effective Friday, Sept. 15, fire restrictions are lifted for all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Cody, Lander and Worland field offices within Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie and counties.
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Terrance Tinsley, 40, of Queens, New York, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that he possessed heroin and cocaine base with intent to distribute. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III ordered that Tinsley be detained pending a further hearing on September 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was convicted by a jury Thursday for receipt of child pornography found on his laptop computer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Office, and Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant’s Son Also Pled Guilty in the Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Hayri Berberoglu, 30, of Etna, formerly of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to a year and a day in prison and a year of supervised release for conspiring to violate federal firearms laws. The defendant pleaded guilty on Dec. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant Laundered Millions of Dollars Through Sham Companies to Pay Illegal Kickbacks to Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: A Hudson man was indicted on 30 counts of aiding and abetting in filing false tax returns, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and Ryan L. Korner, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: This week, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held an oversight hearing on “Expanding and Accelerating the Deployment and Use of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS)." The hearing demonstrated the broad bipartisan support that CCUS technologies boast in the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: A Warren man was indicted on charges that he sold heroin that resulted in the overdose death of a woman earlier this year, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - “Yesterday we announced the Task Force that will be working against the fraud related to Hurricane Irma recovery efforts, and today we are announcing what appears to be the first case in the District of Puerto Rico related to Hurricane Irma’s relief efforts," said U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: MOAB, Utah-The Moab Field Office seeks volunteers to complete a short trail reroute at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite on Sept. 29 as part of National Public Lands Day. Volunteers will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Mill Canyon Tracksite Trailhead, approximately 15 miles north of Moab.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 22-year-old Houston man has been handed a significant federal prison sentence following his convictions of trafficking two children under the age of 18 for commercial sex, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Antonio Rasheed Benjamin aka “Papi P" pleaded guilty March 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On July 6, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Raeef Ohan Ohan, 58, of Stockton, charging him with possession of goods stolen from interstate shipments and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three Kansas City, Mo., men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to kidnap and torture an Independence, Mo., man.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2018 Borlaug Global Research Alliance Fellowships. Fellows will work with a mentor at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service or a U.S. university for up to 12 weeks on resilient agricultural research. The U.S. mentor will later visit the fellow’s home institution to continue collaboration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with operating a drug trafficking ring in southeastern Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Cedric Lamar Turner, 31, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 164 months in prison on carjacking charges and related firearms violations, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. also ordered Turner to serve three years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
