News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former treasurer of the Gladstone, Mo., firefighters union pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $26,000 from the union.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Taos Field Office has acquired 648 acres of land located within the Río Grande del Norte National Monument, the culmination of a shared conservation partnership with The Trust for Public Land. The parcel will facilitate traditional and recreational access for hunters, piñon nut and wood gatherers, hikers, mountain bikers, and backpackers into the interior of the Monument and its rugged, wide-open landscape and vistas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Wathiq Al-Ibraheemi, 34, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today to two years of probation for the unauthorized use of an official insignia.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Today, the House overwhelmingly passed two bipartisan railroad data and information security bills: H.R. 4921, the “STB Information and Security Act," and H.R. 4925, the “FRA Safety Data Improvement Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing a bank in Bonner Springs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, welcomed Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Secretary Shawn Garvin to a hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee Subcommittee ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety held the hearing, “Cooperative Federalism Under the Clean Air Act: State Perspectives." Below is the opening statement of Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: HELENA-John Shannon Finley, Jr., 24, of Helena, Montana, was sentenced to 121 months in prison, 10 years supervised release, and a $100 surcharge by Senior United States District Court Judge Charles C. Lovell on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Steve Christmas of Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership leads the EM Paducah Site’s first community tour of 2018 Saturday during a stop at the Central Control Facility. Also known as the C-300 Building, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant's nerve center was where uranium-enrichment operations...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Kimberly, Oregon - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument will sponsor an 8-week long Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program this summer. Youths 15 to 18 are encouraged to apply, provided that they do not reach their 19th birthday before August 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: On April 11, 2018, United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan will testify at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Her remarks, titled “Defeating Fentanyl: Addressing the Deadliest Drugs Fueling the Opioid Crisis," are scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Four national parks in Maryland and the District of Columbia recently concluded annual operations to reduce overabundant white-tailed deer. Two Civil War battlefields, a 5,810-acre hardwood mountain forest and a national park in the heart of our nation’s capital, donated more than 14,000 pounds of venison to local non-profits that serve those in need.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Bonnie Hughes and John Kohlmeier, Jr., both of Greece, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production, receipt, and possession of child pornography, and coercing and enticing a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that Melissa Ann Mandan, aka: Melissa Fyten, age 33, was charged by an Indictment returned on April 4, 2018, for Federal Program Theft and Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: BOISE - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of renowned federal prosecutor Michael Joseph Fica on Sunday April 8, 2018. Mike was admitted to the bar in 1997, and began his career with a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill. He was hired by then-U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Azad Khan, 64, of Villanova, PA, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by the Honorable Lawrence F. Stengel in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A federal jury found Khan guilty on July 25, 2017 of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and two counts of distribution of controlled substances, all arising from Khan’s employment at a clinic run by co-defendant Dr. Alan Summers.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen will travel to Santa Teresa and Artesia, New Mexico on Thursday, April 12. In Santa Teresa, Secretary Nielsen will visit the new border wall construction efforts. She will also attend operational briefings on the wall’s construction and meet ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 9, 2018) – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with other Trump Administration cabinet secretaries and leaders of federal agencies, committing to following the President’s One Federal Decision framework for processing environmental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: A Manassas, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to using the Internet to pay women to sexually abuse children as young as six years old in the Philippines while he produced numerous images of the abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2018
News Release: A Newton, Massachusetts man, who was arrested and charged in October 2017 for conducting an extensive cyberstalking campaign against his former housemate, was charged today in federal court in Boston with an additional 24 offenses. Ryan S. Lin, 25, was charged with seven counts of cyberstalking, five counts of distribution of child pornography, nine counts of making hoax bomb threats, three counts of computer fraud and abuse and one count of aggravated identity theft.
