News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 25, 2018, Antonio Reed, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and a crime of violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing with top Pentagon officials, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill demanded answers over the report she released earlier today detailing the Pentagon’s systemic mismanagement of the ‘Legacy’ program, a project intended to provide counterinsurgency intelligence experts to mentor...
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the postponement of today’s full Committee markup...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Carlos Manuel Fleitas, age 31, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Jan. 23, 2018, to conspiracy to commit access device fraud. United States District Judge Salvador...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shayliss Ellsworth, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 87 months in prison for his conviction on assault charges. Ellsworth will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The enthusiasm and skills of Volunteers-in-Parks (VIPs) provide outreach to millions of national park visitors each year. In 2017, more than 315,600 volunteers donated more than 7.2 million hours of service in national parks, performing just about every job imaginable.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Brenna Green, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has settled with the United States Government for her role in a kickback scheme that included West Virginia physicians, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - After meeting today with Charles Rettig, the nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray encourages the public to participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28, 2018. This biannual event will be held form 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at thousands of collection sites around the country, including over 100 here in New Hampshire. This event is an important effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno parolee who posed online as a teenage boy and enticed about a dozen girls to send him sexually explicit photos was sentenced in federal court today to 22 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Dent, Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, and Chairman Frelinghuysen, for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Terrance Rainey, Talante Fisher-Bland, Brittni Dixon, Martavius Askew, and Donnisha Miles have been sentenced for their respective roles in illegally purchasing and trafficking 33 firearms from Georgia to New York.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed the Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act (H.R. 4744). The bipartisan legislation shines a light on the Iranian regime’s long record of human rights abuses and hostage-taking. It also mandates sanctions on Iranian officials responsible for wrongful, politically motivated jailing of U.S. citizens.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and François Jacq, Chairman of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), seized the occasion of President Trump’s Head-of-State welcome for French President Emmanuel Macron to sign two Statements of Intent (SOIs). The signing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - William Keebler, age 59, of Stockton, Utah, indicted by a federal grand jury in June 2016 in what the charges alleged was an attempt to damage or destroy a federal buildings managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, has pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Alex “Lex" Hernandez, 27, most recently of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court to 70 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley area physician, Dr. John Pellegrini, D.O., 64, of Huntington, West Virginia, pled guilty today to a conspiracy to commit money laundering related to the promotion of the illegal distribution of Schedule II controlled substances, outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 2.786 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2017. That spending resulted in 18,903 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $1.89 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Brewer, 48, of San Francisco, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 months in prison for bid rigging, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Albert Angelucci, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Connecticut, and Anthony Campbell, Chief...
