News from September 2017
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SALEM, OR - The Bureau of Land Management Northwest Oregon District will be expanding the parking area at Sandy Ridge Trailhead, including construction of a bike demonstration and special event area. While the parking area will be closed during construction, all trails will remain open.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati - The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a Time and Materials, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Chenega Professional & Technical Services, LLC, of Chesapeake VA. Chenega Professional & Technical Services, LLC is an Alaskan Native Corporation 8(a)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Ari Tietolman, 43, of Montreal, Canada, was charged in a Superseding Indictment1 with three counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. In addition, the Superseding Indictment added Adam Harper, 34, of Montreal, Canada, who is also charged with three counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD BRUNO, 47, of Waterford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 192 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that ROBIN REID, 54, of Bristol, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to preparing false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND- Reine Fleur Silverlight was sentenced today to 81 months in prison for participating in a methamphetamine distribution scheme and for absconding during her federal court proceedings, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers following Silverlight’s guilty pleas in which she admitted to committing the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Ari Tietolman, 43, of Montreal, Canada, was charged in a Superseding Indictment1 with three counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. In addition, the Superseding Indictment added Adam Harper, 34, of Montreal, Canada, who is also charged with three counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, to consider nominees to serve as Deputy United States Trade Representative, Office of the United States Trade Representative Chief Agricultural Negotiator and United States International Trade Commission Member. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expects to receive more shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste in fiscal 2017 than initially planned, Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) Manager Todd Shrader said at this year's National Cleanup Workshop, held here earlier this month. As of this week, the total shipment tally was 68.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 27, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Jeffrey Guzman, age 26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to 96 months’ imprisonment for being the head of a heroin and cocaine trafficking organization that operated from late 2015 until April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the guilty plea of BRANDON MARK BJERKNES, 35, for coercion and enticement of a minor and production of child pornography. BJERKNES, who was charged and taken into custody on May 30, 2017, pleaded guilty today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorneys Benjamin C. Glassman and Justin E. Herdman announced charges brought in eight separate Social Security fraud and other benefits cases statewide.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting October 1. This change happens yearly and is necessary as days become shorter and the sunset is earlier after the end of Daylight Saving Time. The Visitors’ Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former Harrisburg Police official pleaded guilty in federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to charges of conversion of government property and theft from programs receiving government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: EM contractors across the complex were recognized for safety and health excellence in DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) at a recent symposium in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lynwood woman who dropped out of law school - but who later allegedly stole the identity and bar license number of a New York attorney - surrendered herself last night on federal charges that accuse her of filing immigration petitions on behalf of foreign nationals who believed she was a legitimate lawyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Ronee Damien Williams, 25, of Dallas, Texas was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of multiple firearm and drug offenses following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for alleged computer hacking and wiretapping of his former company’s email server, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - The last of 16 defendants charged and convicted in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas area has been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
