News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Sept. 21, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced approximately $36 million in federally-funded financial assistance to advance carbon capture technologies. Under the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office Of Fossil Energy (FE), the Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to robbing five banks throughout April and June 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for all of nearly 200 acres offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA- James D. Durham resigned effective Sept. 22, 2017, as the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Mr. Durham served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office’s Criminal Division from 2002 to 2007, as the Office’s Criminal Chief from 2007 to 2010, and as First Assistant United States Attorney from 2010 to March 2017, when he became the Acting United States Attorney.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has notified each state and territory whether or not their election systems were targeted during the 2016 election...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno, Nevada attorney was convicted today following a three-week jury trial, of filing false tax returns and obstructing the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former clerk of the Orange County Superior Court was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme in which he was paid approximately $420,000 dollars in bribes to “fix" criminal cases and traffic offenses on terms favorable to hundreds of defendants without the knowledge of prosecutors or judges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Ronald Scott Gibson, 46, of West Manchester, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison for distributing child pornography after having been convicted of a prior related state sex offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: D. Michael Dunavant was sworn in Sept. 21, 2017, as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. In a brief ceremony, Chief U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson administered the oath of office in Jackson, Tennessee, making Dunavant the 50th person to serve as the chief federal prosecutor for the Western District.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged five Middletown residents with the strong-armed robbery of a diamond/jewelry merchant in Monroeville, Pa. on April 2, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Established in 1994, National Public Lands Day is celebrated annually at public lands across the United States. This day of service promotes civic engagement and the caretaking of public lands. Last year, National Public Lands Day had over 200,000 participating volunteers at over 2,500 sites across the United States. It is estimated that this effort created over $18,000,000 in public land improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (619) 546-8104 or Connie V. Wu (619) 546-8592.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Federal Engineers & Constructors (FE&C), a subcontractor at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford Site, has agreed to pay $2 Million ($2,000,000) to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) in connection with a number small business subcontracts with DOE at its Hanford nuclear site.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Kansas will receive more than $500,000 in federal grants to help fight the opioid crisis, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant Attacked Mother With Fists, Wooden Stick, and Iron.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Big Island Capital Fraudster Pleads Guilty to Million-Dollar Ponzi Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Five Alleged Members and Associates of Bloods Gang Indicted for Federal Racketeering and Other Related Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that on Sept. 18, 2017 in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced FREDDIE MONTRELL ANTHONY, 25, of Washington, N.C., to 70 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: After pleading guilty to several charges, a man was sentenced to imprisonment and supervised probation during a recent court hearing. Nathan D. Goodman, age 36, is also banned from Grand Canyon National Park.
