News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Greenville has returned an indictment charging RONALD WYNN, 44, an inmate in Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford, North Carolina, with two counts: conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON -A Boston man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Huntsville- Today Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited Huntsville, AL to tour facilities at Redstone Arsenal, to include FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), ATF’s National Center for Explosives, Training and Research (NCETR) and NASA, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sean Michael Fryer, age 37, of Factoryville, Pennsylvania was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for multiple child exploitation crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: The press conference will be held at 11 a.m. at the M.L. Brown Public Safety Building, 2560 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Kevin Clinton, 61 years old, of New Carlisle, Indiana, has been charged with four counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST NEW BORDER WALL IN A DECADE.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 27, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Blue Campaign hosted a Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI) Stakeholder Summit in Washington, DC, to further its effort to combat human trafficking in the aviation industry. The BLI is an element of the Blue Campaign, led by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and DHS Component Agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: (Waimea, HI, Dec. 12, 2018) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (PDF, 1.2 MB) (MOU) to “establish a framework to allow the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and WGA to work collaboratively to accomplish mutual goals, ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2018) – Anne Hazlett, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development, today applauded President Donald Trump for establishing a White House Council to carry out the Administration’s plan to encourage public and private investment in urban and economically distressed areas, including qualified opportunity zones.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today hailed the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill. The House of Representatives approved the conference report on the bill this afternoon, following the Senate’s passage yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A medical doctor pleaded guilty to corruptly obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws yesterday, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Matthew G.T. Martin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: The Tallahassee, Florida City Commissioner Scott Charles Maddox, 50, and Tallahassee political consultant Janice Paige Carter-Smith, 53, both of Tallahassee, have been indicted in a 44-count indictment for conspiring to operate a racketeering enterprise that engaged in acts of bank fraud, extortion, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A former congressional staffer was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $800,000 in restitution, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a multi-year scheme to defraud charitable donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars and secretly to funnel the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Two Kingsmen Motorcycle Club gang members, who were convicted of RICO conspiracy, were sentenced today in the Western District of New York to 15 years and more than four years in prison, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. for the Western District of New York announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: NOTE: Court-filed video footage of Navimax’s illegal discharging of oily waste can be found here and here.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A former U.S. government contractor was charged in an indictment filed today for his alleged role in selling falsified resumes and counterfeit U.S. government training certificates to individuals seeking employment on U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan between 2012 and 2015, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Sopko.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Atlanta, Georgia, convicted Saleem Hakim, 49, of three counts of failing to file federal income tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with Afni Inc. (Afni), a customer service provider headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois. The settlement resolves a complaint that an Afni location in Tucson, Arizona, discriminated against a lawful permanent resident in violation of the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By Commerce News Now | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: (Introduced by James Uthmeier, Senior Advisor, Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, U.S. Department of Commerce) Thank you, James, for that kind introduction, and welcome everyone to the U.S. Department of Commerce for our first-ever Space Investment Summit. Thank you to the speakers for being here, and for those of you from government, industry, academia, and elsewhere for taking the time out of your busy schedules to attend.
