News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is proud to announce that Lora Snyder will be joining the House Natural Resources Committee Democratic staff on Feb. 12, as the lead on fisheries, oceans, and endangered species. She succeeds Matt Strickler, who recently left the Committee to serve as Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - Interagency fire crews with the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office and the Inyo National Forest will be conducting pile burning operations this week in Bridgeport Valley, Mono County, as weather and air quality conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, TN-The FBI’s Knoxville field office and the Oak Ridge Police Department are hosting child abduction training this week for law enforcement agencies from middle and east Tennessee. More than 100 officers from local, state, and other federal agencies gathered in Oak Ridge as FBI agents, who...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Civil Engineer wins NPS Pacific West Regional Director’s Award for Natural Resource Stewardship through Maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Moises Jimenez-Salas, 40, a Mexican national illegally in the United States who previously has been deported three times, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months of imprisonment for his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges. Jimenez-Salas will be deported following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Francisco Lopez, 28, of Los Angeles, CA, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempting to transport a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Levi Registe, 26, of St. Thomas, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with two federal firearms offenses and three territorial firearms offenses, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Registe made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) today requested ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A man and woman from Middlesex County, New Jersey, were arrested today for their alleged participation in a credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: (Mifflintown, PA, Jan. 24, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Bill and Legislative Principles for 2018 during a town hall at Reinford Farms in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today sent the attached letters to 23 jurisdictions, demanding the production of documents that could show whether each jurisdiction is unlawfully restricting information sharing by its law enforcement officers with federal immigration authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A Lenior City, Tennessee, chiropractor has paid $1.45 million, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act violations, announced U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. The settlement also calls for a Cookeville, Tennessee, pain clinic nurse practitioner to pay $32,000 and surrender her DEA registration to settle allegations that she violated the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Virginia man of committing a hate crime for assaulting a co-worker at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Chester in May 2015. James William Hill III, 36, of Chester, was found guilty yesterday of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A Detroit-area podiatrist pleaded guilty today to health care fraud for his participation in a $1 million scheme involving podiatry services that were never rendered. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Two owners of a Pennsylvania biofuel company were charged in a superseding indictment today with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and aiding and assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent fuel tax credit refund claim, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Peter Zuccarelli, 62, of Plano, Texas was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle and illegally export from the U.S. in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), radiation hardened integrated circuits (RHICs) for use in the space programs of China and Russia. Zuccarelli was also sentenced to three years supervised release and a $50,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A Las Vegas, Nevada, business owner was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for evading payment of employment taxes and penalties, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A former contractor at the Military Sealift Command (MSC) pleaded guilty today for accepting bribes totaling approximately $2.8 million in the course of a bribery and fraud scheme that lasted more than a decade. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was convicted today of stealing trade secrets from AMSC, a U.S.-based company formerly known as American Superconductor Inc., announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: A Shelby County, Tennessee, resident was sentenced to 12 months in prison today for evading payment of taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee.
