News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago today sentenced the former president of a Florida-based financial firm to ten years in prison for his role in a $179 million sham loan scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The first-ever database inventory of oil and natural gas infrastructure information from the top hydrocarbon-producing and consuming countries in the world is now available online. The database was born from a massive information acquisition, evaluation, and resource integration project led by the Office...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
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: TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the Distric of New Jersey announced a DeKalb, Illinois man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Richard Arlee Champion, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia, to 262 months in prison, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Champion to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment Thursday against Jesus Alberto Lopez-Retamoza, 31, a Mexican citizen residing in Kern County, and Hugo Lemus, 29, and Alejandro Lemus, 24, both Mexican citizens residing in Tulare County. The indictment charges them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, as well as possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: As part of a multi-year project, SEAC archeologists will be returning to Mount Locust, one of the oldest structures in Mississippi (built ca. 1785), along the Natchez Trace Parkway (NATR) to conduct a geophysical survey. This structure, which still stands today, functioned as an inn along the Old Natchez...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of all five Federal Trade Commissioners.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce that Ken Barbic was approved by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: I’m going to talk to you today for a while, but before I get into the details of my speech, I have a message for you. It’s an important message, a serious message - it’s a message you need to hear. I’m going to keep it real simple. Are you listening? I want everyone in this room to look at me right now and hear this message.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service (NPS) and Active Southern West Virginia (Active SWV) have entered into the third year of a successful partnership known as the “Get Active in the Park" program. The program helps connect local residents to the national parks of southern West Virginia by offering...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On April 25, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted two alleged MS-13 members, Jairo Arnaldo Jacome, a/k/a “Abuelo," age 36, and Gerdandino Delgado-Escobar, a/k/a “Pumba," age 23, both of Hyattsville, Maryland, with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, since my first day as Ranking Member, you have set a very collegial and cooperative tone, and I want to thank you for continuing to be inclusive as we work through this process.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was arrested Tuesday by federal law enforcement officers on drug trafficking and firearm charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats will host a news conference today at 9 a.m. at the House Triangle with environmental advocacy leaders to reiterate their call for the firing or resignation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and to discuss important issues he...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two southwestern Pennsylvania residents pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Yuma Field Office, will be conducting prescribed burns near Senators Wash. The prescribed fire will burn invasive non-native vegetation cleared from the shoreline and access roads. This will improve access for emergency responders, and increase public access for camping and fishing.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today to examine the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), whether its process for reviewing investments needs an update, and the Foreign Investment Risk Review and Modernization Act (H.R. 4311).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: A Kent State University professor pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to the FBI.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.5 million visitors to Buffalo National River in 2017 spent $62.6 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 911 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $71.1 million.
