News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Group Trafficked Heroin from Baltimore to Front Royal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Used Fraudulent Documents to Apply for Jobs and a State ID after Illegally Entering the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the House Agriculture Committee passage of H.R. 2 - Agriculture & Nutrition Act of 2018...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announced recently that Wright Brothers National Memorial will modify its entrance fees to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs to enhance the visitor experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Carthage, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in southern Missouri and in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
By State Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In the U.S. Capitol this evening, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will join Armenian Americans and members of Congress to commemorate the horrific Armenian Genocide.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement regarding Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Mignon Clyburn’s announcement that she will be leaving the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Robert M. Duncan, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, has announced changes to the leadership team for his Office. The changes include creating an Executive Assistant United States Attorney position, promoting a new Criminal Chief, and replacing the manager of Ft. Mitchell Branch Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dwayne C. Hans, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sterling Johnson to 36 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $134,000.00 in restitution for orchestrating a series of frauds between July 2015 and October 2016, including by masquerading...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Local land management agencies are working more closely together as a result of a recently signed agreement between the U.S. Forest Service (Mark Twain National Forest) and National Park Service (Ozark National Scenic Riverways). Known as a “Service First" agreement, it provides legal authority for these agencies to exchange resources and share equipment across jurisdictional boundaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Leon Russell, 36, of Castleton was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford in U.S. District Court in Rutland. Judge Crawford also sentenced Russell to three years supervised release, which is a period of supervision by the U.S. Probation Office, which will begin upon Russell’s release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Marty Humphrey, age 65, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Harry McCarthy, age 58, of Ogdensburg, New York, was sentenced today to serve 15 years in prison for his sexual exploitation of a minor, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Vadim D. Thomas, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany FIeld Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Ima Maria Isham, 22, of The Colony, Texas appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Rebecca Rutherford and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced five bills to the full committee that ensure the Department of Energy has the tools it needs to execute its core energy security missions and to promote domestic energy infrastructure and capitalize on the nation’s energy abundance.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) released the following statement after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a proposed rule to help reduce the oversupply of opioids, specifically in West Virginia after reports of pill dumping.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vinson Six, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Smith Lake, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to assault charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Pair Sentenced This Week Were Part of 32-Member Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Robert Joseph Marano, 53, of Dallas, Texas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Rebecca Rutherford and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Timothy J. Oravec, age 59, of Poughkeepsie, New York, was arrested today on charges that he defrauded the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and some of its employees by falsely claiming to have cancer, and obtaining and using leave time donated to him by his colleagues.
