News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: On Saturday Oct. 20, 2018, Thomas Stone National Historic Site will host a nighttime stargazing event from 6:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Visitors can come out to view stars, planets and constellations through the powerful telescopes of the Southern Maryland Astronomical Society. There is no admission cost to either event.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 2345, the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act, authored by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), by unanimous consent yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: FBI Offers $1,000 Reward in 2017 Homicide on Navajo Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Betty Jo Eckenberger, age 32, and James David Eckenberger, age 43, of Perry County were sentenced on Aug. 1, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane for child exploitation crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joel Hunsicker, age 37, of Scranton, Pennsylvania was charged on July 31, 2018, in a criminal information with stealing student incentive gift cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office and the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol announce that Jose Moreira de Sousa, 51, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Newark, N.J., was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to one-year of probation following his guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG"), and Thomas Licetti, Acting New York Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor-Employee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Thomas James Adams, 23, of La Grande, Oregon, was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for sexually abusing a minor victim on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER BARRETO, 29, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribution, and distribution of, controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Aug. 1, 2018, following a three-day trial, a jury found Antoinne Lee Washington, 33, guilty of one count of sex trafficking of an adult by force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of transportation for prostitution. Sentencing has been scheduled for December 5, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., before United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter today to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting their transparent, deliberative process for proposing the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle Rule, which addresses the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions standards for Model Years 2021-2026.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charlie P. Conant, 27, of Syracuse, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to attempted online enticement of a minor. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant admitted to receiving videos of “kiddy porn," one of which depicted the anal penetration of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) to 21 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge William H. Steele sentenced Avery Varkese Nash on Aug. 2, 2018 to a term of 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Darius Taurean Caldwell has been sentenced for committing two armed bank robberies, brandishing a firearm in connection with those robberies, and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - William Beaumont Hospital, a regional hospital system based in the Detroit, Michigan area, will pay $84.5 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act of improper relationships with eight referring physicians, resulting in the submission of false claims to the Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE programs, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was charged today in federal court in Boston with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: A Fort Lauderdale federal jury convicted Mohammed Al-Ghool, 50, of Broward County, yesterday of possessing a firearm and ammunition while being an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Bayon, 63, of Grand Island, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interstate communication of a threat. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
