News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Transportation Security Officer pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining over $30,000 in workers’ compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dana J. Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that MAALIK ALIM JONES pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe to conspiring to provide material support to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two individuals from Trenton, New Jersey, who were arrested in connection with a Trenton-area drug trafficking organization today pleaded guilty to separate charges of unlawful firearms possession and conspiracy to distribute heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Global War on Terror veteran Ryan Zinke will deliver remarks at the September 11 Observance and Tower of Voices “Soundbreaking," respectively.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The National Park Service has selected three companies to provide logistical services in support of administrative river missions along the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park. The apparent awardees are Ceiba Adventures, Inc, Colorado River & Trails Expeditions, and Grand Canyon Whitewater, LLC.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Reclamation will close the portion of Suzie Peak Road leading to Gadens Point at Belle Fourche Reservoir beginning Monday, Sept. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Taunton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin and fentanyl operation centered in Taunton.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Gene Ballard, 38, of Manteca, was sentenced on Friday, September 8, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to six years and three months in prison for executing a bank fraud and identity theft scheme and for numerous violations of his supervised release for a prior conviction, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former aide at a Lawrence public school was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug charges involving kilos of cocaine and thousands of oxycodone pills.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives John Katko (NY-24) and Elijah Cummings (MD-7) today renewed their bipartisan effort to honor the life of Harriet Tubman-introducing The Harriet Tubman Tribute Act, which would require the Secretary of the Treasury to place Harriet Tubman’s likeness on the $20 bill beginning in 2020. Cummings and Katko introduced similar legislation in June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two individuals from Trenton, New Jersey, who were arrested in connection with a Trenton-area drug trafficking organization today pleaded guilty to separate charges of unlawful firearms possession and conspiracy to distribute heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a seven-count indictment yesterday charging RAYMOND ORTEGA, 23, of Hartford, with drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Honduran national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Elpi Diaz-Ramos, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 21 months in prison to be served...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today following up on reports that the agency put a temporary hold on all grant awards to the state of Alaska after Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski voted against legislation to repeal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Galena Biopharma Inc. to Pay More Than $7.55 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Related to Opioid Drug.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Since the day Obamacare became law - having passed with only support from Democrats - Republicans have worked to repeal the partisan law and replace it with patient-centered reforms. While the effort has been underway for more than seven years, only recently have we had a chance to make good on our promises and undo the harm Obamacare has inflicted on the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Deptford, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for using a fake Facebook profile to entice children to produce sexually explicit images, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a South Gate, California, man who was arrested with 29 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in a tractor trailer was sentenced today to 63 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 480 months in prison for coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he photographed the abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
