News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) for a vegetation treatment project in Carbon County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alex Bernard Fletcher, 41, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking laws and firearms charges. Fletcher will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence and will be required to perform 50 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Winchester woman was charged today with bank fraud after allegedly using forged checks and account numbers to steal nearly a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA- On September 5, 2017, James Lee Palmer, a 56 year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Palmer’s term of imprisonment is to be followed by ten years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Army veteran from Reno County was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation and ordered to pay back $70,000 in benefits he received by pretending to be blind, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today. The man’s ex-wife was sentenced to a year on probation for helping with the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for his role in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 16 projects to receive $10.2 million in funding to advance solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded funding to five research and development (R&D) projects that will enhance the secure use of mobile applications (apps) for the federal government.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Duke Urges Nation to Remain Vigilant as DHS and FEMA Prepare for Hurricane Irma For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke traveled to Houston, Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas to meet with federal, state ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – As Hurricane Irma approaches the United States and its territories, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) highest priorities – as they were with Hurricane Harvey ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2017) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today announced that the government of Vietnam has notified the U.S. that it will resume imports of American distillers dried grains (DDGS). In December 2016, Vietnam suspended ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC, September 6, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today reiterated his strong support for President Trump’s tax reform agenda, as the president outlined today in North Dakota. Perdue issued the following statement: “Farming is a complicated operation, so to place more burdens ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with the owners and manager of three Edmonds, Washington, apartment buildings to resolve a lawsuit filed earlier this year alleging that those landlords refused to rent their apartments to families with children, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. On September 9, 1957, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, creating the Civil Rights Division. The 1957 Act was the first civil rights law passed since Reconstruction, and was a first step leading ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Officer Conspired to Cover Up Beating By Falsifying Records and Lying to Investigators Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that a former supervisory correctional officer at Louisiana State ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: A federal district court in Shreveport, Louisiana has permanently barred defendants Angelina Adams aka Angelina Morris and Angie’s Tax Service LLC from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The defendants consented to the permanent injunction after the government filed a complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: After being convicted at trial, a Northern California real estate investor was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions, the Department of Justice announced.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and state bank regulators recognize the serious impact of Hurricane Irma on the customers and operations of many financial institutions and will provide regulatory ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application under section 18(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act by Synovus Bank, Columbus, Georgia, to acquire substantially all the assets of, and assume the deposit liabilities from, World's Foremost Bank, Sidney, Nebraska.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve today published, Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System: Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey, a paper identifying updated tactics it will pursue to help improve the speed, safety and efficiency of the U.S. payment system.
