News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Darius Fields, 27, of Dallas, Texas was found guilty Wednesday following a three-day trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn for aiding and abetting the false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer to acquire a firearm, commonly called “lying-and-buying" or making a “straw purchase," announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Justice Department Inspector General provided a report to the committee regarding its investigation of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Conspirators Paid Over $1.3 Million to Influence the Official and to Secure Business with State-Owned Telecommunications Company.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Peregrine falcons are again defending nesting territories at the Precipice, Jordan, and Valley Cove cliffs in Acadia National Park. Park staff has observed adults at these sites engaging in courtship and pre-nesting behavior signaling the birds’ intentions to nest and raise chicks...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jose Rivera, 59, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. According to the indictment, Rivera illegally applied fumigants containing methyl bromide in multiple residential locations in the U.S. Virgin Islands, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury this afternoon returned an indictment that charges two men in a scheme to rob an undercover agent with the United States Secret Service at gunpoint under the pretense of selling the law enforcement officer counterfeit money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man and a Blue Springs, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling more than $388,000 from their employer in a scheme to redeem scrap metal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A task force designed specifically to reduce homicides and other violent crime in Birmingham held its first meeting today at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Eun Soo Lee is Charged with Making Interstate Threats to Injure another Person.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), introduced the Agriculture Creates Real Employment (ACRE) Act. The ACRE Act would protect ranchers, farmers, and rural communities from burdensome federal overregulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A methamphetamine dealer from South Charleston was sentenced today to 8 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jamie Harmon, 38, previously pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant Created Sham Investment Advising Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- This week, Harrison Jumbo, 46, of Many Farms, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 72 months’ imprisonment. Jumbo had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a Jay Neal, 39, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to eight counts including conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more heroin, possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin, maintaining a drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: An Aruban official residing in Florida pleaded guilty today to money laundering charges in connection with his role in a scheme to arrange and receive corrupt payments to influence the awarding of contracts with an Aruban state-owned telecommunications corporation.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the potential for high octane fuels and the vehicles designed for them. Members looked at the impact of a potential transition to high octane fuels and vehicles on refiners, biofuel producers, automakers, fuel retailers, and consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Assistant Special Agent in Charge John Schmidt will hold a press conference on Monday, April 16, 2018 to announce the results of a significant law enforcement operation carried out pursuant to the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the potential for high octane fuels and the vehicles designed for them. Members looked at the impact of a potential transition to high octane fuels and vehicles on refiners, biofuel producers, automakers, fuel retailers, and consumers.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated devices. The coating, applied with a technique...
