News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Ethiopian diplomat was arrested today by federal agents for visa fraud violations arising out of the use of non-immigrant diplomatic visas for family members who did not qualify under federal regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that REYNAUD KENDRELL VARISTE, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a three-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it, using a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Thurmond, WV - The National Park Service (NPS) at New River Gorge National River, National Coal Heritage Area, the Thurmond Performance Team, and Operation Lifesaver are hosting the fifth annual “Thurmond Train Day" in the historic railroad town of Thurmond, West Virginia, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and United States Attorney Mike Stuart today announced Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a new program that seeks to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas and to identify wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the State Department to produce documents it has been withholding relating to alleged lists being created by a Trump Administration political appointee Mari Stull to determine whether career employees are sufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Slater, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting a 16-year-old victim across state lines for illegal sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3281, the Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act. Introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), this bipartisan bill establishes a voluntary, streamlined process for local utilities, states or tribes to pursue title transfers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Taylor Michael Wilson, 25, of St. Charles, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, to one count of violence against a mass transportation system. Because there were passengers on board the train at the time of the offense...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Slater, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting a 16-year-old victim across state lines for illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Weis Markets, Inc. a food retailer based in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, agreed to pay the United States $77,320 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inappropriately using gift cards to induce Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to transfer or fill their prescriptions at its affiliated pharmacies, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: CONTACT: press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., July 12, 2018 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is announcing that the government of Japan has finalized technical requirements that will allow U.S. sheep and goat exports into the country for the first time in more than 14 years. “This success...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 13 members to fill vacancies on the 37-member National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Twelve appointees will serve three-year terms, Nov. 1, 2018, through Oct. 31, 2021. One appointee will serve the remaining portion of a vacant position, effective immediately, and expiring Oct. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Federal and state authorities arrested 34-year-old Lukman Shina Aminu in Manchester, NH, today for his alleged scheme to launder thousands of dollars from multiple fraudulent schemes, including thousands stolen from former Texas state employees retirement plans, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced more than one dozen bills to the House of Representatives for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Gina Curry age 35, and Ronnie Jones, age 37, both of Thomasville, Georgia, plead guilty on July 12, 2018, to possession with the intent to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 USC §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Alberici Healthcare LLC in St. Louis, Missouri, have signed a strategic partnership to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the 802,000-square-foot SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Copper Center, AK- The man who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest while hiking with family on the Root Glacier Trail in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve on Tuesday has been identified as 53-year old Scott Griffith of Fairbanks, Alaska.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement today after the FCC voted along party lines to eliminate key consumer protections to help resolve informal complaints...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement today after the FCC voted along party lines to eliminate key consumer protections to help resolve informal complaints...
