News from August 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Top House and Senate Democratic health leaders released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today that exposes the deficiencies in the Trump Administration’s management of the 2018 Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) open enrollment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced ADRIAN C. HAMMOND, JR., age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 12 months and one day in federal prison following his convictions for bank fraud, money laundering and obstructing the administration...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As bicameral conferees work to reconcile Senate- and House-passed versions of the Farm Bill, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee joined Ben Cardin (D-Md.), senior member of EPW, and 36 colleagues in a letter urging conferees to oppose controversial anti-environment policy riders. The current Farm Bill expires on Oct. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine) was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rodney L. Roach, 38, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 60 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and crack cocaine. Roach pleaded guilty to this charge on May 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA-- On Aug. 23, 2018, Trevor J. Graves, age 23, a former University of Iowa student, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to four months in prison after pleading guilty to unauthorized access and damage to the University of Iowa college computer network...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Has a smell, sound, or taste ever reminded you of the past? What memories would the smell of wet wool, the crack of a musket, or the taste of coffee elicit for a Civil War soldier?
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Jeffrey West announces that permits for temporary duck blinds will be available at the Harkers Island Visitor Center beginning Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., and thereafter Monday through Friday, except holidays.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the unsealing of a 43-count indictment in federal court in Cleveland, which charges two Chinese citizens with operating a conspiracy that manufactured and shipped deadly fentanyl analogues and 250 other drugs to at least 25 countries and 37 states. The indictment also alleges the drugs sold by the group directly led to the fatal overdoses of two people in Akron, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Harrison, of Pine Grove, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a subordinate gang member pleaded guilty today and yesterday to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana and Assistant Attorney General Bryan A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury sitting in Las Vegas indicted Arizona resident Douglas Haig today with one count of engaging in the business of manufacturing ammunition without a license, announced United States Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: El Portal Road will be closed 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Friday, August 24 through Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Trevor Palladino, 29, of Milford, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: José Maria Marin, Former President of the Brazilian Soccer Federation, also Ordered to Forfeit $3.3 Million in Bribe Receipts and Fined $1.2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Free Backpack Giveaway for Reynolds Middle School Students on Friday, August 24th.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A woman carrying more than five pounds of fentanyl in her suitcase as she traveled through Kansas City, Mo., was charged in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department filed a complaint to bar two Ohio doctors from prescribing medications after an investigation revealed they recklessly and unnecessarily distributed painkillers and other drugs. Temporary restraining orders—a first-of-its-kind against doctors allegedly prescribing opioids illegally ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced several arrests, charges and guilty pleas as a result of “Operation Darkness Falls,” a joint operation targeting people and organizations that sell fentanyl and other drugs over the dark net.
