News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: San Jose - Trong Nguyen, also known as John Nguyen, was sentenced to 25 months in prison for conspiring to file false claims against the government and submitting false claims to the government, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced DAVID EARL GILL, JR., 26, of Louisburg, North Carolina, to 216 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,477.07 in restitution.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
Release: No. ECON 356/2017. The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Honorable Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of the Republic of Ecuador and refers to the Ministry’s Note No. MREMH-SANE-2017-0033-N, dated Aug. 29, 2017, which communicated a proposal by the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Star Party on Cadillac Mountain will take place from 8 to 11 pm on Saturday, Sept. 23, with a free “Shuttle to the Stars" departing from Mount Desert Island High School. Participants are invited to drop in at any time during the program to visit with more than 50 volunteer...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today said that the slate of Republican bills set to receive votes on Wednesday are a sign that Republicans will do any amount of damage to public safety, to sportsmen and to the outdoors to keep the National Rifle Association (NRA) happy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned a series of indictments charging individuals with fentanyl trafficking and other criminal offenses. Fentanyl, sometimes known on the street as “Grey Death," is a powerful opioid...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced DAVID EARL GILL, JR., 26, of Louisburg, North Carolina, to 216 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,477.07 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Building a Digital Defense Against Cyber Bullies.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on North Korea...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
Release: Lubbock, Texas -The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm at the security screening checkpoint Sept. 11 at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (LBB). This is the ninth firearm found at the LBB checkpoint this calendar year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A registered sex offender from Kansas was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in federal prison for picking up a 16-year-old girl in Virginia and taking her across state lines to have sex with him, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Anibel Rondolpho Rodriguez, a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, an international criminal organization, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 45 years’ imprisonment following the defendant’s March 30, 2017 guilty plea to racketeering charges including two murder conspiracies, two attempted murders, and threatening to commit assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have reached an agreement with StarKist Co. and its subsidiary, Starkist Samoa Co., requiring the companies to make a series of upgrades to reduce pollution, improve safety measures, and comply with important federal environmental laws at their tuna processing facility in American Samoa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that LezFrank Vargas-Herrera a/k/a Christian Rivera Rios, age 25, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 11, 2017, to 181 months’ imprisonment by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine hydrochloride and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Juan Carlos Maldonado, 22, originally of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for the armed robbery of a U.S. mail carrier, participation in a bank fraud scheme, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va - Step back to 1862 and explore the complex history of the US Civil War through the experiences of “Contraband," enslaved African Americans seeking freedom behind Union lines. Join the park’s living history staff and volunteers on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, for Lives In Limbo: A Contraband Camp In the Shadow of John Brown’s Fort.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2017 - Schools reopening in hurricane-stricken areas of Texas will be allowed to provide meals through the National School Lunch Program to all students free of charge through Sept. 30. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has also granted these schools flexibilities with regard to what they serve and when they serve it, making it easier for them to feed students in hurricane-affected areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Rebecca S. Kanter (619) 546-7304.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
Release: U.S. exhibitors at the 25th annual Seafood Expo Global (SEG) in Brussels, Belgium, recorded their largest catch on record with projected 12-month sales of $895 million and on-sites sales of $136 million. This success was a huge win for the U.S. seafood industry, which in 2016 exported $5.2 billion of...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A traveling gospel singer from Indiana was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor and distributing child pornography.
