News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FADI EWIESS, a/k/a “Fadi Awise," was sentenced today to three years in prison on wire fraud charges in connection with his participation in a scheme to defraud investors through the operation of a purported...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former St. Joseph, Mo., Boy Scout leader has been charged in federal court with distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today gave remarks at an ACTION for Trade kickoff event. ACTION for Trade is a coalition of trade associations, tech companies and creative organizations dedicated to advancing a pro-creativity and innovation agenda in trade. During...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Clifford Earl Jordan, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 87 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. Jordan had previously pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Matthew Demond Lyons, 23, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 10 years' imprisonment to be followed by 20 years of supervised release. Lyons previously pleaded guilty to attempted transportation of a minor with intent to engage in...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Traditionally, broccoli is a cool-weather crop. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are looking to change that by developing new varieties that grow in warm temperatures.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: St. Augustine, FL - In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Castillo de San Marcos National.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Jose Frias, 57, of Allentown, PA was charged today by Indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States and with aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Los Alamos - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) extended the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Bridge Contract by a period of six months today. The period of extension is valued at approximately $65 million. With the extension, the contract will expire on March 31, 2018. The contract was originally set to expire on Sept. 30, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Celebrate National Public Lands Day at Canyon Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Jorge Andres Lopez Montiel a/k/a Arturo Jiminez-Lopez a/k/a “Jimmy", 27, of Nashville, Tenn. and Nayarit, Mexico, a Mexican citizen who had been previously deported from the United States, was sentenced to 17 ½ years in prison for leading a heroin-trafficking conspiracy from Mexico, announced Donald Q. Cochran, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing at which Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan testified on the Trump Administration’s planned reorganization of the Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard, 46, who is also known as Mehdi Armani, of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment[1] with threatening a United States Marshal and lying to the United States Marshals announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Nikparvar-Fard was charged with making...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County man was arraigned today on charges that he conspired to distribute more than 16 kilograms of heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held a legislative hearing on a series of bills aimed at improving federal fisheries management for commercial and recreational fisherman.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: National Champion Tree Showing Cracks in Trunk.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - Beginning on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, the Parkway Visitor Center at milepost 266, just north of Tupelo, Mississippi, will be open from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm seven days per week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon and participating in a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in the Trenton area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Federal Sentence of 92 Months Will Run Consecutive to State Murder Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today charged a financial analyst and a former investment banker with securities fraud for allegedly earning profits from trades they made with non-public information.
