News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was sentenced today for 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 Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Ely, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office will begin a wild horse gather on or about July 9 in Big Sand Spring Valley as there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the area. The gather will be conducted by BLM employees (not contractors) using...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty Thursday to making threatening communications to the Lafayette office of U.S. Representative Clay Higgins.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-A new initiative kicks off today to evaluate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and situational awareness technologies during critical incidents. The effort is a joint partnership between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Canada’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho-Idaho Falls District BLM law enforcement officers seized hundreds of illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July holiday. “The majority of these fireworks were confiscated along Red Rock road near the St. Anthony Sand Dunes," said Jeremy Casterson, Upper Snake Field Manager. “This is disappointing not only because all fireworks are prohibited on BLM lands, but because that area is highly susceptible to wildfire."
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging him to restore the American people's trust in the agency's mission, and to carefully consider the lessons of the past -- particularly in the case of former EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a roundtable discussion on emerging issues related to the domestic use of counter UAS systems.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Late yesterday afternoon, Thursday July 5, park rangers were notified by Fort Collins Police that Brian Joseph Perri, 38, of Fort Collins, Colorado, had been reported as missing. Perri was last known day hiking on Saturday, June 30, in the Mount Meeker area of Rocky Mountain National Park. On June 30...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - Public lands in the Indian Valley and Walker Ridge areas along the Lake-Colusa county line are now open to public access. Walker Ridge Road is again open at the intersection with State Route 20. The Bureau of Land Management had temporarily closed the area because of danger posed by the Pawnee Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban businessman who operated a cellular telephone distributorship throughout Illinois and other Midwestern states was sentenced last Friday to 24 months imprisonment for willfully failing to pay more than $800,000 in personal and corporate income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was sentenced today for 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 Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $150,000 civil penalty against Metropolitan Aviation LLC, of Manassas. Va., for allegedly violating Federal Aviation Regulations pertaining to aircraft maintenance.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Beyond startup programs, university partnerships and prize competitions, there are still countless ways to promote public safety innovation. One of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) most consequential efforts to do so has focused on giving the private sector legal incentive to continue developing and deploying large scale security technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted correctional officer Jessica Vennie, age 28, of Crowley, Texas, on July 5, 2018, for racketeering at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland, as well as drug and money laundering conspiracies. The scheme involved paying bribes to correctional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Joel Anthony Bunch, 41, of Clifton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 12 months and a day imprisonment for filing false Federal Individual Tax Returns. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) on Tuesday completed counting the counterfeit items seized in Laredo in June which totaled more than 181,000 items. HSI estimates the street value of the seized items at more than $42.9 million, which is HSI’s largest counterfeit seizure in Laredo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Keith Harris, 25, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 24 months in federal prison for possessing and concealing a stolen firearm. Harris pleaded guilty to this charge on April 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on July 6, 2018, William Ellsworth Howell, Jr., 36, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced to 10 years and one month (121 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine. Information provided...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C., July 6, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing an exception to the Lacey Act import declaration requirements for products containing a minimal, or “de minimis", amount of plant material. The Lacey Act-which combats ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant Preyed on Immigrant Community, Filing Falsified Deductions and Credits so She Could Claim a Share of Larger Tax Refund.
