News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Two Additional Federal Prosecutors Headed To Middle Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park is planning to implement a prescribed fire between January 8 and 31, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa area prescribed fire is being conducted to dispose of material created during fuel reduction projects from last summer.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Georgia are partnering to sponsor a week-long campaign to reinforce the importance of workplace safety during the winter months. The cold weather Safety Stand-Down is scheduled for the week of Jan. 22-26, 2018. Events will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Derek Cyrus and Chuck Sandford have been sentenced for running a false invoicing scheme that defrauded the Panda Express restaurant chain of nearly $1.5 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Pipestone National Monument and other National Park Service (NPS) sites, around the country, proudly join the nation in observing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Day by offering fee-free entry into the parks on Jan. 15, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s Draft Proposed National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 3, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Anthony Kitchenakow (age: 46) of Green Bay.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlighting the failure of federal agencies during the previous administration to provide efficient, effective and transparent permitting for seismic research in America's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Chairman Bishop, who requested the report in March 2016, issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Jan. 3, 2018, Mark Carlton Bryant, 66, of Estill Springs, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 51 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. Additionally, Bryant was ordered to pay a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Nashville Area Tax Preparation Businesses Obtained Nearly $6 Million In Bogus Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Police Officer Mark Taylor of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been added as a defendant in the criminal case against former officers Marlon Caldwell and Cauncenet Brown. Caldwell, Taylor, and Brown are all charged in connection with a scheme to disclose un-redacted accident reports to Dr. Mitchell Davis, a local chiropractor who has pleaded guilty to making false statements and criminal conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-A red fox, which had received numerous food handouts from people in Grand Teton National Park, was put to death recently. The fox exhibited bold behavior by approaching people and vehicles in search of food, and was killed out of concern for human safety. Visitors are reminded that feeding park wildlife is illegal, and may ultimately lead to the death of an animal or injury to park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Charge arising out of the Seizure of Almost 11 Pounds of Methamphetamine at Greyhound Bus Station in Albuquerque.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Officials at Bryce Canyon National Park announced today that burning of debris piles created from recent fuel reduction treatment projects at Rainbow Point, in park employee housing areas, and in the park maintenance area are expected to begin as soon as January 8, 2018. Burning of the approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men and two women were indicted by a federal grand jury in Elkins on Dec. 19, 2017 on drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Postal worker targeted packages mailed from the Department of Veterans Affairs containing oxycodone and hydrocodone.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, issued the following statement following the announcement of the Department of Labor’s proposed rule on the expansion of association health plans (AHPs)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Shannon Dale Cooper, age 33, of Sumner, Georgia, was sentenced to 188 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine by United States District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia on January 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Charge Arises out of Seizure of Almost Nine Pounds of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, today charging him with attempting provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization and distribution of information relating to destructive devices.
