News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced a set of bills designed to promote Arizona public land conservation, including the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Act to designate a national monument on approximately 85,000 acres of federal land in Southern Arizona. The monument will be managed as part of the Bureau of Land Management’s National Conservation Lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today led 39 Senate Democrats in an effort to stop congressional Republicans from promoting discrimination against LGBTQ Americans seeking to be foster or adoptive parents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant Charged With Defrauding More Than a Dozen Elderly Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Kevin Hamilton, 61, of Wyncombe, PA was sentenced today to 10 months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $635,000 in restitution and to forfeit $656,421.11 in proceeds resulting from his criminal activity.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida -Victor Thomas Clavizzao (56, St. Petersburg) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, TX - U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade has ordered Design Plastering West LLC to pay criminal and civil penalties for criminal violations of occupational safety and health standards after an employee suffered a fatal fall at an apartment complex in Dallas. The court ordered the company to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced for Role in Odometer and Title Fraud Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected five projects to receive approximately $10.7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will advance tools and methods for assessing the state of stress and geomechanical impacts within...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Sheffield, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF) Harrisburg Field Office and the Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public’s help in the identification of the individual pictured below. This person is suspected in the theft of 8 firearms that occurred on June 14, 2018 from Calvary Firearms, located at 1764 Lincoln Way East, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: An Elyria man was indicted in federal court for trafficking fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a twelve-count indictment charging BILL BAEZ, JR., age 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina, with six counts of Mail Fraud and six counts of Wire Fraud.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing featuring testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on President Donald J. Trump’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the administration’s ongoing dialogue with North Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DARIN WEBB pled guilty to defrauding a Manhattan-based literary agency (the “Agency") and its clients of over $3.3 million. WEBB provided bookkeeping services for the Agency and carried out his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A South Carolina man today admitted his role in distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas doctor pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute prescription medications, specifically Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, by allowing his co-conspirators to write illegal opioid prescriptions using his prescription pad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - John McEwan was sentenced yesterday to over five years in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Timothy J. Frazier, 35, of Boise, was sentenced yesterday for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Frazier to 93 months in prison. Judge Lodge also ordered that upon completion of that time, Frazier serve an additional three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging three defendants with allegedly...
