News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The government today filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Brendt A. Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill. Christensen is charged with the kidnapping resulting in death of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang on June 9, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States will hold its quarterly online oil and gas lease sale March 22, 2018. The sale will include two parcels totaling approximately 345 acres in the Marietta...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: OMAHA - Matt Barden, Associate Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha District Office, today announced that Richard L. Parker, 47, from Dubuque, Iowa, was convicted by a jury on the crimes of distribution of heroin within 1000 feet of an elementary school and a playground, resulting in death, and also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Dylan M. Aste (619) 546-7621.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining three bills that seek to modernize the nation’s energy laws for the 21st century. Members received feedback from a panel of witnesses on legislation that would streamline the approval process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable today for community organizations, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - David Frediani, 28, of Epsom, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Brad Smith, 33, of Franklin, New Hampshire was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. A jury previously found Smith guilty of six counts of producing child pornography after a three-day trial in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Bobby Joe Drakeford, Jr., age 27, of Wallace, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. United States District Judge Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Drakeford to 84 months in federal prison with 3 years of supervised release to follow.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing examining concerns over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) food-recall process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing on “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process:"
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee Hearing on “Legislation Addressing LNG Exports and PURPA Modernization:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security-within 48 hours of a letter signed by every Democrat on the Oversight Committee-finally released its...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
Release: BURBANK, Calif. - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm Wednesday afternoon in the carry-on baggage of a male passenger traveling from Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing examining concerns over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) food-recall process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for bringing firearms and ammunition across the border into Chicago and illegally selling them.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said farewell to outgoing National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Lt Gen Frank G. Klotz, U.S. Air Force (Ret). Secretary of Energy Rick Perry also announced that Klotz would be the fourth recipient of the James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced today that the District of Vermont collaborated with other U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect $156,032,317.29 during Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $22,154.00 was collected in criminal actions and $156,010,163.29 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that yesterday, United States District Judge John A. Woodcock sentenced Jonathan Gardiner, 31, of Glenburn, to 100 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing firearms. Gardiner pleaded guilty to the charges on April 24, 2017.
