News from July 2018
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: CONTACT: USDA Press Office, press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., July 24, 2018 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation. President Trump...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Dina Titus (D-NV) sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc E. Bercoon and William A. Goldstein have been sentenced to federal prison on charges that they manipulated the market for shares of MedCareers Group, Inc., a publicly traded company, and that they carried out a second investment fraud scheme using a new business corporation that they organized as the bait for investors.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance four nominees for the Department of Energy (DOE):
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Peter Salinas a/k/a “Pudge," 37 years old, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: To ensure bomb techs are on the cutting edge of technology as they address evolving threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) created the Response and Defeat Operations Support (REDOPS) program. REDOPS connects the 466 bomb squads of varying sizes and...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service will issue a prospectus on July 27, 2018 for proposals for a new concession contract to provide campground, retail, and other services within Pinnacles National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a criminal indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of Michigan today, Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli, 28, of Dearborn, Michigan, was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of JOSEPH THOR PERKINS, 36, to 28 years in prison for sexually exploiting multiple minor victims. PERKINS, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 16, 2018, to one count of production of child pornography, was sentenced on July 23, 2018, before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Rocky Simmons, a safety representative with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Mission Support Alliance, was presented with the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Regional Special Government Employee award at this year’s VPP Participants' Association Region X conference in Anchorage...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Two U.S. citizens, charged with federal violations, have been transferred from the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to U.S. law enforcement custody and arrived today in the Northern District Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Lovelock Paiute Tribe member who admitted to assaulting a man with a broken glass lamp was sentenced today to nine years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart issued the following statement regarding the settlement between the Department of Justice (DOJ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of West Virginia and CSX Transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce will host a bipartisan Innovation Forum and Showcase on July 25, 2018. Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce have invited innovators from their congressional districts to come to Washington to share with Congress and the public how they are ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Keith D. Cook, age 38, of Greer, pled guilty in federal court in Spartanburg, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins, of Spartanburg, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, today announced their committees will hold a series of hearings on Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New York (“HSI"), announced today the arrest of BRANDON MARTIN and TAMEKO LINDO for money laundering...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: 1 DEAD IN POSSIBLE DROWNING AT LAKE MOHAVE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kurt Downs, age 28, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan, was indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting two other inmates and assaulting correctional officers in the performance of their duties.
