News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Harry Meir Mimoun Amar, a resident and citizen of Israel and Morocco, pled guilty today to taking part in an international conspiracy to trick mid-level corporate employees into wiring millions of dollars to bank accounts under the control of those in the criminal enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mechanicsville dentist was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for defrauding Medicaid and four dental insurers of approximately $783,000.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Goodness Greeness Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 13 projects to receive approximately $60 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies. These selections are the first under ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA - In the fall of 2017 Olympic National Park experienced a series of burglaries and thefts of government property. U.S. Park Rangers of the National Park Service, assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol, conducted an extended surveillance operation which led to the arrest and conviction of 29-year-old Alexander Turney of Port Angeles for second degree burglary.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. A new National Park Service report shows that 499 thousand visitors to Devils Tower in 2017 spent $31.1 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 442 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $38.7 million. “Devils Tower welcomes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Scott Borrowman, age 50, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2250(a). United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Thomas A. Burnell, age 36, of Plattsburgh, New York, pled guilty today to selling heroin mixed with fentanyl that caused the death of a customer. Burnell separately pled guilty today to possessing a weapon while incarcerated as a federal inmate at the Clinton County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston-area investment adviser pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to using his clients’ funds to make his own investments and to pay personal expenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
Release: First gun caught at the airport in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Three men were indicted on for federal firearms violations, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Winston Wade Turner has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with mail and wire fraud for making false representations to investors in a biofuel scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles William Masters, of Burnsville, West Virginia, has admitted to firearm and drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Marnie Graham has been named BLM Glennallen Field Manager.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, PA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2.1 million visitors to Valley Forge National Historical Park in 2017 spent $26.8 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 426 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $39.9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On April 25, 2018, Roy David Evans, Jr., age 33, of Essex, Maryland, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Jon Wilson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced today that the DEA and its state and local law enforcement partners will conduct its 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event tomorrow, April 28th between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill initiated a rarely-used Senate procedure to try to force passage of the bipartisan Taxpayer Right to Know Act. The bill calls for the federal government to make public the details, costs, and performance metrics of every federal program above $1 million. McCaskill...
