News from September 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill, which would turn back the clock on American excellence, following President Trump’s lead on divesting from education, health, foreign assistance, science, and infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Three men who burglarized a gun store in Cornelius, N.C. were sentenced to prison today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Offices collect 294 pounds of food.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian National was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to launder money from various international locations back to Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Ringwood, New Jersey, man appeared in federal court today to face cocaine distribution, money laundering, and other conspiracy charges associated with his role in a scheme to import large quantities of cocaine from Guyana to New Jersey and New York, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Philippe Maurice, 50, a citizen of France, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to time served (113 days) and one year of supervised release for entering the United States after having been removed and deported. He pleaded guilty on June 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On September 5, 2017, William Henry Adkins, 65, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 360 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and firearms offenses, announced United...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS. SEPT. 6, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau is now accepting applications for more than 1,000 temporary positions that will support peak operations for the 2018 End-to End Census Test in Providence County, R.I. The test area includes approximately 265,000 housing units in Providence...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Three Las Vegas men were sentenced today to a total of 40 years in prison for their involvement in a string of convenience store armed robberies during the summer of 2014, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a fugitive citizen of Guatemala, Wednesday wanted by Guatemalan authorities for homicide.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: 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 - are to promote life-saving and life-sustaining activities, the safe...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - An indictment was unsealed today charging RALPH ALLAN LEE SHORTEY, 35, of Oklahoma City, with federal crimes involving child pornography and child sex trafficking, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Fernando Morales-Matos to 188 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release on drug trafficking offenses, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Morales-Matos...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to examine the sharing economy and consider how it relates to our nation’s workforce policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Stephen Wong (619) 546-9464.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Leonard Charles Thomas, 39, formerly of Gautier, Mississippi, was sentenced on Aug. 31, 2017, by U.S District Judge Sul Ozerden, to serve 25 months in federal prison for mail fraud in connection with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain. Thomas was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $118,171.52 to BP America, Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - Take a step back into history with Thomas Jefferson on Saturday, September 9, 2017. Bill Barker will portray our third president in his first-person presentation, Thomas Jefferson on Educating the People.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Johnson, for holding this hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Los Angeles - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently released the Firearms Commerce in the United States - Annual Statistical Update 2017. The report provides comparative data from as far back as 1986 for context, analyses of firearms manufacturing trends over the years, and a broad picture of the state of firearms commerce in the United States today.
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 a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and for illegally possessing a firearm.
