News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office has re-opened all of the Cache Creek Management Area, including Frog Pond, Blue Ridge and Fiske Creek trails, along County Road 40, as fire suppression repairs have been completed from the County Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Shusta Traverse Gumbs was sentenced today following his convictions for two counts of using a motor vehicle to assault members of the U.S. Marshals Services’ Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERTF) after he eluded arrest in his vehicle, pinning a Deputy U.S. Marshal with his car during his escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud offense and admitted operating a $6 million scheme that bilked investors who were promised large profits from the resale of tickets to high-profile sporting events, including the Super Bowl and the World Cup.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Gibson County man has been indicted on child exploitation charges. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) recently finished demolishing a heavily reinforced process cell and removed thousands of pieces of equipment in the Vitrification Facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and its cleanup contractor at DOE’s Idaho Site have repurposed former spent nuclear fuel hot cells to characterize and segregate waste, eliminating the need to construct new buildings or purchase equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of Eelon Training Academy (“Eelon"), a privately owned, non-accredited school purporting to specialize in digital media courses, pleaded guilty today to bribing a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies and the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. This agreement establishes a framework for joint collaboration to improve fish and wildlife habitat management on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: RENO Nev. - A man unlawfully in the United States who used another man’s personal identifying information on his U.S. passport application was sentenced to two years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) San Francisco Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Saguaro National Park Improving the Desert Discovery Trail.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has awarded a subcontract to design and build a new tank waste pretreatment capability at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is applying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) - more commonly called drones - to support the cleanup mission at Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Joshua Griffin, age 32, of Pelham, Georgia was found guilty by a jury of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine (Count 1), Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana (Count 2) and Possession of Cocaine (Count 3). The trial was held July 16-17, 2018 before United States District Judge Leslie J. Abrams in Albany.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today in support of a petition signed by over 100 labor, public health, environmental, and advocacy groups to urge the Occupational...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today urged the administration to rethink its global trade strategy during a speech on the Senate floor, emphasizing that it could undermine the success of tax reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Paul D. Delacourt, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the indictment late yesterday of MICHAEL YIN, a/k/a “Shaohua Yin," on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Anthony Estrada, 24, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 30 months in prison for his conviction on a felony information charging him with using interstate communications to threaten the lives and safety of children at a Las Cruces public elementary school. Estrada will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk woman was sentenced yesterday to 12 months in prison and six months under house arrest for helping her husband possess firearms after he was convicted of a felony and attempting to obstruct the investigation against him.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a member of the House-Senate conference reconciling the two chambers’ versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), sent a letter with 118 of his House Democratic colleagues this morning urging House and Senate lawmakers to remove...
