News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A criminal bill of indictment was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Asheville, charging Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 20, of Asheville, N.C., with second degree murder for killing a co-worker, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Pendergraft was previously arrested on a federal criminal complaint in connection with the murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Jesus Gabriel Alvarez, 30, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 37 months in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Alvarez had previously pleaded guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE ANGEL ESPINOZA-FUENTES, age 42, a native of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today urged Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to consider the full economic effects of a proposed Health and Human Services (HHS)/Office of Inspector General rule that would alter the use of rebates that are common in negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today urged Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to consider the full economic effects of a proposed Health and Human Services (HHS)/Office of Inspector General rule that would alter the use of rebates that are common in negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that the 2018 Indian Country Conference: Offering Hope to Victims in the Spirit of Justice, was recently held in Bismarck, ND, on July 19-20, 2018, at the North Dakota Heritage Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: One Defendant Pleads Guilty to Murder and the Other to Acting as an Accessory After the Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Siobhan Daniels, age 31, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment and four years supervised release on August 7, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Joshua Laine Rogers, 35, of Stuart, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Donald L. Graham to 30 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing and distributing pornography of a teenage victim. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: South Carolina Teen Convicted for Attempting to Join ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Zakaryia Abdin, 19, of Ladson, South Carolina, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: A Colorado business owner pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to impair and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for his role in a $7.2 million renewable fuel tax credit scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: A Winston-Salem, North Carolina resident pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury sitting in Nashville, Tennessee today, returned a five-count indictment, charging two members of the MS-13 gang with murder in aid of racketeering, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Statement from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross As Secretary of Commerce, today I directed the National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate access to the water needed to fight the ongoing wildfires affecting the State of California. One of the fires, the Mendocino Complex Fire, has developed ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) today announced the availability of up to $100 million for Trade and Economic Transition National Dislocated Worker Grants to provide training and career services to dislocated workers affected by major economic ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 8, 2018
The US State Department published a two page notice on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
