News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced Monday to 75 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, commemorated the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by releasing a detailed review of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) progress at meeting critical homeland security mandates set forth in The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales, III, announced today that a federal judge has sentenced an Albuquerque-based methamphetamine trafficker...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 30, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against seven individuals for conspiracy to engage in firearms trafficking without a license, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The agencies in charge of the investigation are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobbaco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the US Postal Inspector Service and the Puerto Rico Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 28 months in federal prison for using stolen identities to obtain car loans, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The sentence is in addition to 20 months he has already served.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that JOHN DiMENNA, 74, of Vero Beach, Florida, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to two counts of wire fraud stemming from an extensive real estate investment and financing scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on Sept. 12 and 13, 2017. The BGNDRF opened on Aug. 16, 2007, and serves as a focal point for developing technologies for the desalination of brackish and impaired groundwater.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Mark A. Harrell, age 34, of Omaha, Nebraska, was detained at his initial appearance today by Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson. Harrell was recently indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns for the 2012 filing year. The penalty on each count is a maximum of 3 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today raising serious questions over the Administration’s plans to roll back funding for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Navigators...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today raising serious questions over the Administration’s plans to roll back funding for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Navigators...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kirksville, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling more than $380,000 from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in Columbia, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup seven bipartisan bills on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Cape Krusenstern Subsistence Resource Commission to Meet October 4-5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The self-proclaimed “Grand Sheik" of a Moorish temple in Chicago has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for causing the Internal Revenue Service to issue more than $3.2 million in fraudulent tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Roslindale man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a cocaine distribution operation on the South Shore.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - In keeping with the Trump Administration’s strategy towards American Energy Dominance, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a sealed-bid competitive coal lease sale at the BLM Montana/Dakotas State Office on Oct. 17, 2017.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Due to changes to the House schedule as a result of Hurricane Irma, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has postponed this week’s hearings of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup seven bipartisan bills on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Pipestone, MN: All National Park Service sites, including Pipestone National Monument, will offer free entrance on Saturday, September 30th for National Public Lands Day. In the event of rain on the 30th, the collection of seeds will be postponed until October 7th.
