News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON, PA - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) in downtown Scranton welcomes visitors to celebrate National Park Week, April 21-29, 2018, from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm daily.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Bolivia is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. In 2014, in a process deemed free but whose fairness was questioned by international observers, citizens re-elected President Evo Morales Ayma, leader of the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS),...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is both head of state and head of government. The government bases its legitimacy on its interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) and the 1992 Basic Law, which specifies that the rulers of the country shall be male...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: MEDORA, ND: The staff of Theodore Roosevelt National Park invites everyone to celebrate National Park Week, April 21 through April 29. Entrance fees will be waived at all national parks on Saturday, April 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Richard Rodriguez Gray, 34, of Overtown, was sentenced yesterday in Miami, Florida, by U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez of the Southern District of Florida, to 15 years in prison, 25 years of supervised release, and sex offender conditions, including compliance with the Adam Walsh Act requirement that Gray register as a sex offender for life. Gray previously pled guilty to sex trafficking a minor.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Madagascar is a semipresidential democratic republic with a popularly elected president, a bicameral legislature (Senate and National Assembly), prime minister, and cabinet. The current president and National Assembly were elected in 2013, the first national elections after the 2009 coup against former...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A New York resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit bank, mail, and wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation received reports of possible pre-historic mammal remains being located on Reclamation land near Cody, Wyoming, on Tuesday, April 17. The fossil remains are believed to be from a mammoth and include rib elements, vertebral elements, and a number of other bones.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lynwood woman who stole the identity of a New York attorney and filed immigration petitions on behalf of foreign nationals who believed she was a legitimate lawyer has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Houston-area man and woman have been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MILTON OMAR SANCHEZ, age 43, a native of El Salvador, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Forced Suspicious Driver to Return Him to Washington After 72-Mile Trip to Aberdeen, Md.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: On Thursday, April 19, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen joined President Donald J. Trump and senior U.S. officials at the Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) in Key West, Florida. The purpose of the visit was to review the Administration’s ongoing efforts to combat transnational ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 19, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the selection of senior leaders in several U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies. Perdue appointed Ken Isley as Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator, Joel Baxley as Rural Housing Service ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The financial manager of Atius Technology Institute (“Atius”), a privately owned, non-accredited school specializing in information technology courses, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: A former production manager at an aluminum extrusion manufacturer was charged in an indictment filed Apr. 18, for his alleged participation in a decade-long fraud scheme involving the fraudulent certification of mechanical properties for parts manufactured by his former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The former general manager of the procurement subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), pleaded guilty today for his role in an international money laundering scheme involving bribes paid by the owners of U.S.-based companies to Venezuelan government officials to corruptly secure energy contracts and payment priority on outstanding invoices.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: A U.S. citizen pleaded guilty today to paying a 14-year-old girl for sex on multiple occasions in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Biotheranostics Inc. has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for Breast Cancer Index (BCI) tests that were not reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, the Department of Justice announced ...
