News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been found guilty of four federal offenses related to assistance he provided to a Mexican national with a criminal record to re-enter the United States.
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This evening, the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation (H.R. 4681) to keep taxpayer dollars out of the hands of the murderous Assad regime and its proxies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: The press conference will be held at 3:30 pm at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, located at 1441 Main Street, Suite 500, Columbia, SC 29201.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA), and members of the Subcommittee sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting Acting Commissioner David Kautter provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the filing of a felony information charging RONNIE EUGENE TAGGART, 50, for soliciting and receiving bribes and kickbacks in exchange for awarding City of Plymouth contracts.TAGGART will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the arrest of MICHELLE FOLEY, a former employee of a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization that provides arts and mentoring programs to underserved youth. FOLEY is charged with bank, wire, and access...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Government and Pennsylvania Settle With MarkWest for Air Emission Violations at Natural Gas Facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Elkhart, Indiana, man was sentenced on April 17, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Month of April Designated as “Second Chance Month".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON, Mass - This weekend DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday April 28 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 580 collection...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28th. Since 2010 Northern California residents have turned in more than 413,000 (206 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted medications. The service is free and anonymous.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Alleged Albuquerque Bank Robber Arrested. Jesus Manuel Almanza, 22, of Albuquerque, has been arrested in connection with a northwest Albuquerque bank robbery that occurred Tuesday (4/24/2018). The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI took Almanza into custody at an Albuquerque residence Tuesday.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) released the following statement after the Committee received the U.S. Department of Defense report on the October 2017 attack on U.S. service members during an operation in Niger.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senior DOE, labor, and contractor leaders participated in the 48th semiannual steering committee meeting for the Hanford Site ’s Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Federal Training Center here last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 16-year-old boy in East Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction in Manhattan federal court of JOHN CHAMBERS for bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. The jury convicted CHAMBERS today on all four counts of the Indictment following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III.
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: MOOSE, WY-The northern section of Moose-Wilson Road will be closed for two weeks beginning Monday, April 30 to accommodate road drainage improvements. The road segment between Murie Ranch Road and the Death Canyon Road will be closed to all users, including cyclists, through May 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Senate Finance Committee hearing to discuss the status and implementation of the new tax law...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. State and local law enforcement agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public its 15th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription...
