News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - Today, the three United States Attorneys for the Tristate area: Robert M. Duncan, Jr., of the Eastern District of Kentucky; Michael B. Stuart, of the Southern District of West Virginia; and Benjamin C. Glassman, of the Southern District of Ohio, along with representatives from the Bureau...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) responded to the release of President Trump’s “infrastructure plan" that aims to gut fundamental clean water and air protections and puts our children’s health at risk...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: RUFINO MEJIA-ACOSTA, a/k/a Miguel A. Pacheco-Gonzalez (MEJIA-ACOSTA), age 38, a citizen of Mexico and residing in Chalmette, Louisiana, was charged in federal court in a one-count Bill of Information for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.- On Friday, the Department of the Interior transmitted a proposal to Congress to expedite the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) title transfer process. The proposal mirrors language of H.R. 3281, the “Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act" (Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-CO), which passed the Committee in July 2017, and is included in the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan released today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: A felon who illegally possessed two firearms in October 2016 was convicted by a judge today, following a bench trial in federal court last month in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Conspiracy Included Several Charity Executives. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Arkansas state representative pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to embezzle more than $4 million...
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Myers, 26 of North Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The National Park Service has reached a decision on the Historic Properties Management Plan/Environmental Assessment regarding the stabilization and improvement of historic properties in Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. The plan provides strategic direction for the rehabilitation and re-use of historic properties that tell the park’s story.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for Misprision of a Felony on Aug. 16, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management signed a decision designating a seven-mile trail system on the recently acquired 112-acre “Haines parcel" near Carbondale. The decision also approves the construction of ten individual campsites and two group campsites nearby along Prince Creek.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2018
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - What is your best hiking experience? In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of National Trails Day, Guadalupe Mountains National Park invites youth to share moments from their favorite trail memory as part of their 3rd Annual Youth Poster Contest.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2018
News Release: Performer and storyteller Mitch Capel will be the featured speaker at the annual Lincoln Day program on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. Capel is known for his unique storytelling style and utilizes a great deal of poetry in his performances. His program, entitled “In Days Gone By" will visit the lives of...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service would like to give our visitors a friendly reminder that pets are welcome in our monuments, but MUST be on a leash of 6 feet or less. Dogs off leash have been an especially big concern at Montezuma Well and in the Tavasci Marsh area of Tuzigoot National Monument. This regulation...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2018
News Release: Performer and storyteller Mitch Capel will be the featured speaker at the annual Lincoln Day program on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. Capel is known for his unique storytelling style and utilizes a great deal of poetry in his performances. His program, entitled “In Days Gone By" will visit the lives of...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service would like to give our visitors a friendly reminder that pets are welcome in our monuments, but MUST be on a leash of 6 feet or less. Dogs off leash have been an especially big concern at Montezuma Well and in the Tavasci Marsh area of Tuzigoot National Monument. This regulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Henry Ford Allegiance Health (“Allegiance”) for conspiring with a rival hospital in a neighboring county to restrict marketing in that rival’s county. The settlement ends almost three years of litigation and a scheduled March ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) Special Agent was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for orchestrating, through multiple misrepresentations to numerous government agencies, the dismissal of a drug trafficking indictment filed against a fugitive narcotics kingpin, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Dwight Hamilton, 54, of Atlanta, Georgia, was today sentenced to one year in prison, three years’ supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for abusing a female inmate by tasing her without any legitimate justification. Leonard Dreyer, Hamilton’s former supervisor at the jail, was sentenced on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for the Jacksonville District, submitted to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida a proposed consent decree that would resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act by condominium developers Lodge/Abbott Investments Associates LLC and Lodge/Abbott Associates LLC.
