News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Camp of Instruction: September 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Defrauded Arizona-Based Medicaid Funded Health Benefit Care Program of Almost $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A local tax return preparer has entered a guilty plea to willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return for one of his clients, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - In preparation for Hurricane Irma and the subsequent impacts to Chatham County, Fort Pulaski National Monument WILL CLOSE at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. The park will remain closed until after the storm has passed and re-open once damage assessments have been made and the park is deemed safe for visitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant feigned cancer and stole acquaintance’s checkbook to buy luxury goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man agreed to plead guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed cocaine and heroin throughout Bristol County, Mass., and Providence, R.I.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Roman Gridjusko, 28, of the country of Estonia, with one count of bank fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Willful Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax was sentenced on Aug. 30, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court. The Defendant was charged on Jan. 30, 2017, and pleaded guilty on Feb. 12, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is preparing a foundation document to guide planning and management of Stonewall National Monument. The park welcomes all interested persons to participate in this effort.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., today introduced the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act , a bill to reauthorize a national program to improve the nation’s earthquake preparedness. The legislation modernizes earthquake-safety programs that help states like Alaska and California prepare for and respond to earthquakes.
By State Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Dear Madame State Counsellor: I write to you out of great concern over reports of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine State. Your government and the military have a responsibility to protect all of the people of Myanmar, regardless of their ethnic background or religious beliefs. These atrocities,...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: PHILADEPHIA - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, (HSI) Harrisburg office contributed to the sentencing of a British citizen, on Sept. 4, 2017, for sexual exploitation of children, blackmail, causing children to engage in sexual activity, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - 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 Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to participating...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm after he fired at a woman and her children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment today charging MOHAMED ABDI, also known as “Vic," 25, of Worcester, Massachusetts, with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application period for innovators to join the second cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). CRI, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds top technical...
By State Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks at a hearing to assess priorities and challenges in the United States’ relationship with Turkey.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at an executive session to mark up the nominations of Gilbert B. Kaplan to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Matthew Bassett to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and Robert Charrow to serve as General Counsel of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Eric Epstein, age 57, of Pompano Beach, Florida (previously of Owings Mills, Maryland) was arrested today on charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Epstein was indicted on Aug. 24, 2017 and charged with committing mail fraud to obtain more than $50 million in money and property from various businesses through the fraudulent sale of light bulbs and cleaning supplies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 39-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Ronnie Thomas pleaded guilty May 15, 2017.
