News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union, New Jersey, woman today admitted preparing fraudulent income tax returns on behalf of her clients, causing losses of over $320,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led a Democratic letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today calling on him to stop preparations for a potential 2019 oil and gas lease sale...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Juan Adolpho Arredondo, who lived in the Kearney area prior to his arrest, was sentenced on April 24, 2018, by the Honorable United States Judge John M. Gerrard, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 10 years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: The new Republican tax law is shaping up to be one of history’s most expensive broken promises, right up there with “we will be greeted as liberators." The ink on the new tax law is barely dry, but already there are calls for a second round of tax cuts.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing to examine the president’s budget request for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year 2019. Interim Chief Vicki Christiansen testified on behalf of the Forest Service.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Native spring wildflowers and children’s creativity will be celebrated during Shenandoah National Park's 32nd annual Wildflower Weekend, May 5-6, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Jeremiah “Jake" Healey knows upstate New York well, having grown up a young hockey player in Camillus, a town approximately 15 miles west of Syracuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 23, 2018, United States District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Thomas Dalton, age 31, of Waldorf, Maryland to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Miami Yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, April 23, 2018, Jay Walter Jaacks, 50, of Portland, pleaded guilty to 17 misdemeanor counts of video voyeurism for placing a concealed video camera in the adult restroom of a Portland daycare facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failure to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Scranton, PA: Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) in downtown Scranton welcomes visitors to celebrate National ParkRx Day, which runs from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 29. This community health fair and outdoor expo day of fun and learning is just what the doctor prescribed!.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - Participants in the first monthly seasonal public site tour of 2018 at EM's former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant wave farewell Saturday at the end of their visit. Among them were three former workers from the earliest days of the uranium enrichment plant in the 1950s. The oldest among them, Gene Marsh (center), turns 90 next month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Robert Hutchinson, Jr. 45, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BENJAMIN CHOW, a/k/a “Ben Chow Zhou Bin," a/k/a “Benjamin Bin Chow," a/k/a “Bin Zhou," was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and seven counts of securities fraud...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: On Friday, May 18, 2018 starting at 8:00 pm, Utah Valley University’s (UVU) Capitol Reef Field Station (CRFS) will host a star party. Astronomers and physicists will be on site to share information about constellations, the Milky Way, galaxies, and nebulae with visitors. Multiple telescopes will be available.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Argentina. Of the total 60,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2017/2018 marketing year and 70,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: TUESDAY - April 24, 2018. MEDIA ADVISORY. WHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 10:00 AM. WHERE: Pasquotank County Public Safety Building. 200 East Colonial Avenue. Elizabeth City, NC 27909. WHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 12:15 PM. WHERE: Ahoskie Police Department. 705 West Main Street. Ahoskie, NC...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -A Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee man pleaded guilty four counts of interstate transportation of stolen property yesterday, in United States District Court, before United States District Judge, Greg N. Stivers, to defrauding investors of $194,000 as part of a scheme to develop a call center in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, man today admitted possessing hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for previous offenses involving the distribution and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
