News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on Scott Pruitt’s resignation as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Miguel G. Ortiz-Vélez, a.k.a. “Papín", mayor of the municipality of Sabana Grande has been indicted and arrested for his participation in a conspiracy to steal federal funds involving fraudulently obtained contracts from the PR Department of Education (PR DOE), announced U.S. Attorney...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
Release: USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a supplemental environmental assessment (EA) relative to an oral rabies vaccination field trial in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia. The supplemental EA analyzes expanding the field trial for an experimental oral ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Chief United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Brandon Earl Ashley, 30, a resident of Semmes, Alabama, to 60 months imprisonment for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: For Distribution of Over 50 Grams of Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 36-year-old Gerardo Javier Carreon of Laredo, TX, pleaded guilty to transporting illegal aliens, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Major Pamela Smith, Commander, New York Field Office of the U.S. Park Police, and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today the arrest of THERESE OKOUMOU on charges...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: GOSHEN COUNTY, Wyo. - Due to dry conditions and high fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management Casper Field Office is implementing fire restrictions for all BLM-administered public lands within the boundaries of Goshen County, beginning July 5, 2018. The BLM urges visitors to these public lands to adhere to the restrictions, in order to aid firefighters and help keep the lands healthy and productive.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is conducting a wild burro gather in the Piute Mountain Herd Area, San Bernardino County, due to extreme temperatures and insufficient water availability at Fenner Spring. There is an estimated population of 60 to 80 burros living in the area that are dependent upon the spring as their sole water source.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Roslyn, New York, man today admitted demanding bribes in exchange for his assistance in securing contracts between a Texas financial services company and two New Jersey information technology staffing companies, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Three illegal aliens, who were arrested while being transported in the same human smuggling operation, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. for unlawful return after removal from the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jose Alejandro Diaz -Tinoco, 35, Luis Eduardo Salto-Garcia 31, and Reynaldo Aviles- Hernandez 44, all Mexican Nationals, have each pled guilty to several federal crimes, including illegal re-entry to the United States after a previous deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Baldwin, age 21, of Nequehoning, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 2, 2018, to 95 months’ imprisonment by Senior United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited (Credit Suisse Hong Kong or CSHK), a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (Credit Suisse or CSAG), a Swiss-based issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, has agreed to pay a $47 million criminal penalty for its role in a scheme to corruptly win banking business by awarding employment to friends and family of Chinese officials in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Leandro Acevedo Lozada, age 33, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to: conspiracy to distribute fentanyl; possession of acetyl fentanyl and cocaine; and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is pleased to announce a very special book signing with Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, illustrator of the children’s books The Legend of Sleeping Bear and S is for Sleeping Bear Dunes on Thursday, July 12, 2018. The book signing will take place at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, 9922 Front Street, Empire, MI 49630 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: * The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now moderate.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: PARADISE VALLEY, Nev. -The Martin fire was reported around 12:25 a.m. on July, 5 about 4 miles northeast of Paradise Valley, NV. The fire grew rapidly due to dense, dry fuels, inaccessible terrain and gusty downslope winds, threatening numerous homes and structures overnight. The hot, extremely dry and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: A Davie woman was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court on Tuesday.
