News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jesse Garcia, Assistant Andean Regional Director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today that four members and associates of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (the “FARC")-SEUXIS...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison after admitting to distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick. Randy Michael Ramirez pleaded guilty Jan. 29, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: The Santa Cruz Fire, which started two weeks ago on March 27, is now considered 100 percent contained. The fire perimeter is set at 258.6 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Milton, Sr., 42, of Buffalo, NY pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin announced that today Jay’von Flemming, 24, Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Madison to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery. Flemming admitted that he committed the armed robbery of Home Savings Bank in Stoughton, Wisconsin, on Oct. 17, 2017, and that he brandished a firearm during the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Webster County man who brought more than 4 kilograms of methamphetamine to Charleston was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Quinton Funk, 38, of Webster Springs, previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN DiMENNA, 75, of Vero Beach, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 85 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an extensive real estate investment and financing scheme.
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Terrell Jerome Cochran, 42, of Crestview, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to serve 120 months in prison after pleading guilty on October 4, 2017, to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, and possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: March 1 - March 31, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Tuesday, April 17, 2018, hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the FY 2019 Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and all five Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners are set to testify.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) and full committee Vice Ranking Member Kathy Castor (D-FL) today issued the following statement calling for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Tuesday, April 17, 2018, hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the FY 2019 Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and all five Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners are set to testify.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - They crawl. They clean. They make work safer.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Tuesday, April 17, 2018, hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the FY 2019 Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and all five Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners are set to testify.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Conditions are right for the National Park Service to conduct a prescribed fire on 215 acres between Devils Den and South Confederate Avenue this Friday and Saturday at Gettysburg National Military Park. If conditions remain unchanged the prescribed fire on half of the burn unit will be April 13 with the second half on April 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury today found MICHAEL LITTLE guilty of charges that he participated in an 11-year tax fraud scheme in which he advised and helped an American family to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Strong City, KS - Come to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve on Saturday morning, April 21, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. to become a Tallgrass Prairie Junior Ranger. Please call the preserve at 620-273-8494 (hit 0) to register your child. Program is free of charge.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democrats sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General’s office today urging the independent office to take over the review of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential ethics violations, which was requested by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DENVER -- The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Bob Troyer, today announces the recovery of $130,752 to settle allegations that two companies, Sanders Oil & Gas, LLC and Sanco Operating Company, violated the federal False Claims Act by failing to pay money owed to the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) for natural gas produced from a federal lease located in New Mexico.
