News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada. - The following events are happening at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Jan. 6 to Feb. 24.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are launching into the new year by focusing their first Committee markup of 2018 on a Republican bill that would make it easier for oil and gas companies to expedite industrial drilling projects in our oceans. The Streamlining Environmental Approvals or SEA Act (H.R. 3133 ) would gut core provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to expedite seismic airgun blasting and other activities in oceans that can harm marine mammals.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS. JAN. 10, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau is accepting applications for more than 1,000 temporary positions for the 2018 Census Test in Providence County, R.I. The majority of these positions are for work as an enumerator for the 2018 Census Test. This involves contacting residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton men were sentenced today to prison terms for their respective roles in a drug trafficking organization that distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in the Trenton area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Dana J. Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned a six-count indictment (the “Indictment") against AKAYED ULLAH in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 78 months of incarceration on his conviction of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announces that two Chicago, Illinois, men convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin were sentenced on January 4, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a 45-minute talk at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District discussing Dragging Canoe, one of the Cherokee resistance leaders to encroachment on Cherokee lands. Parking for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has settled False Claims Act allegations against dental management company Benevis LLC (formerly known as NCDR LLC) and more than 130 of its affiliated Kool Smiles dental clinics for which Benevis provides business management and administrative...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, 158 House Democrats voted against S. 140 (Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ), a bill that promotes tribal self-governance over tribal resources, lands and business regulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A debt collection company employee was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud, involving a scheme to steal the personally identifiable information of local residents to obtain over $200,000 worth of new credit cards and a car loan, announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - After recently discovering that some Missouri residents along the Missouri-Iowa border have been assigned Iowa mailing addresses for decades, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill has introduced legislation forcing the United States Postal Service to discontinue the practice in Missouri and anywhere in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Mon Valley men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that William Westley Dill, age 25, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch today announced the appointment of Assistant United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus to the position of First Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island. Mr. Myrus, an experienced criminal prosecutor and civil litigator, most recently served as Civil Division Chief of the United States Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Denzel Rakim Bridges, age 25, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Senior Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for one count of possession of heroin and one count of possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Sinaloa Cartel Cell Leader Pleads Guilty For Involvement in the Importation of Tons of Narcotics into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Kan., man has been convicted at trial following a confrontation with law enforcement officers at the Richard Bolling Federal Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About Attempted Bank Robbery in Denver, Colorado and Armed Bank Robbery in Aurora, Colorado on Dec. 23, 2017 and January 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: A North Royalton man was charged in a 16-count indictment today for allegedly creating and installing malware on thousands of computers for more than 13 years in order to watch, listen to, and obtain personal data from unknowing victims, as well as produce child pornography.