News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Agrees to Pay $3.17 Million to Resolve Criminal Liability and False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role as the leader of a lengthy and extensive drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: -NPS-. About the National Park Service - More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America’s 400+ national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov. Andy L. Fisher. Chief...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental and Biological Assessment (EA) and signed the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, Proposed First Increment Extension. Reclamation, working with the states of...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 has been designated a National Day of Mourning in memory of President George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. Haleakalā National Park will waive entrance fees for all park visitors. Visitor centers, campgrounds, and restrooms will be open. Sunrise reservations are required for sunrise viewing at the summit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Richard Silvestri, 49, of Seabrook, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM federal and contractor officials from the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently shared business opportunities in the cleanup program and renewed their commitment to supporting service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses at a local forum. The event, which aimed to inform subcontractors...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Late on Nov. 29, 2018-a few days before she was scheduled to go to trial-Lauren Montillo, age 47, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to tax evasion. According to her plea agreement, from 2010 through 2015, Montillo and her co-conspirators...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DEREK JON PADDY, 22, KEVIN ROBERTSON, 32, CHERAI MICHELLE CLARK, 26, and SHANISE FRANCES OSTLUND, 29, for their roles in a burglary on the Red Lake Reservation in the early morning hours of Nov. 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Two Miami, Florida residents pleaded guilty today to health care fraud charges for their roles in an $8.6 million health care fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, MD - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) stopped a Montgomery County, Maryland, man from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane on Monday, December 3.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking innovative solutions from startups to enhance anti-forgery and counterfeiting capabilities for digital documentation through a new solicitation, “Preventing Forgery and Counterfeiting of Certificates and Licenses, " under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Alleged Capital One Bank Robber Arrested in Covington, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is gearing up for winter so visitors can explore the National Lakeshore this winter on a ranger-led snowshoe hike! This holiday season, ranger-led snowshoe hikes will be offered on Wednesday, December 26 at 1:00 p.m. and Friday, December 28...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to a shocking report by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General confirming retaliation at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in violation of the Military Whistleblower Protection Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DAVID CHESLEY GOODYEAR, 44, of El Segundo, California, has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for directing distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attacks against two websites owned by Oklahoma telescope retailer Astronomics in August 2016, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Enjoy taking a picture with Santa and Mrs. Claus, making crafts and sipping hot chocolate at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation is coordinating with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to lower the water level of Lake Moovalya by approximately one foot in elevation for about three weeks beginning in mid-January 2019. Lake Moovalya is the small body of water behind Headgate Rock Dam north...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio today, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 41-year-old Ana Dellanira Rodarte to 17 years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle over 1.3 kilograms of heroin and 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine into the country, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Earle Ewing, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced to 151 months incarceration for transporting a 12-year-old across state lines for sex, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
