News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Several popular Zion National Park trails remain closed due to substantial damage from an intense thunderstorm on July 11th. The trails, including Angels Landing, Kayenta, Upper Emerald Pools, West Rim from the Grotto Trailhead to Cabin Spring, and the far end of Lower Emerald Pools Trail, will remain closed until trail crews, with the help of engineers, can repair or re-route the trails. In the meantime, the affected trails are unsafe and closed to visitors.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: JULY 18, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau will hold its quarterly 2020 Census Program Management Review on Friday, Aug. 3, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium at Census Bureau headquarters. Agenda topics include updates on the 2018 Census Test and 2020 Census systems readiness and program management updates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brandon Diggs, age 28, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was indicted on July 10, 2018, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses. The indictment was unsealed today following Diggs’ arraignment before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion. Diggs was detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Joshua Dale Whitt (25, Macclenny) with failing to register as sex offender. If convicted, Whitt faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An insurance salesman who was entrusted with managing his client’s inheritance was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for fraudulently using the funds for his own benefit, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted Marc Howard Berger today of three counts of aiding and abetting the filing of a false tax return announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division; Internal...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: RESPONSE TO QUERY. JULY 18, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau has a robust cybersecurity program in place to protect the nation’s information as we collect, process and store it in our Information Technology (IT) systems. We have incorporated industry best practices and follow Federal IT security standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Zachariah Michael Poor Bear, 24, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, was convicted of First Degree Murder and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury following a four-day federal jury trial held in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The guilty verdict was returned on July 13, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) sent a letter to U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp, requesting information regarding Mapp’s executive order that allows the National Guard to seize firearms from citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Government Contractor Found Guilty of Theft of Government Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced to federal prison for his leadership role in a “builder bailout" mortgage fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Grand Canyon National Park fire crews discovered a wildfire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Federal Suit Alleges City Discriminated Against City-Employed Registered Nurses and Midwives by not Recognizing Their Work as “Physically Taxing".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in an opioid trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of oxycodone from Florida to Massachusetts and Maine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: I want to welcome our witnesses on behalf of the Committee Democrats. We look forward to hearing from you all directly about the impacts of this Administration’s tariffs on your communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Ronald Teekell, 53, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 97 months in prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - First Assistant United States Attorney G. Norman Acker, III announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of SHAMEIKA GOODALL, a/k/a Donna Diva, 32, of Covington, Georgia, who was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III in June 2017 to life imprisonment for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - The onset of monsoonal moisture has limited the fire danger and the Bureau of Land Management has lifted fire restrictions on public land at Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area and the public lands around the town of Lincoln, starting at 8 a.m. on July 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles E. Scott, Jr., a vendor who claimed to be providing tutoring and mentoring services for students with special needs, was sentenced today to 26 weekends in jail, to be followed by 180 days of home confinement, for a scheme in which he collected more than $75,000 from the District of Columbia Public Schools for work that never was performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Charles Nevotney Bolton, 33, of Biloxi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 110 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
