News from June 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center presents its third annual temporary exhibit that features paintings by Native American students from Owyhee Combined School, located in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine) was sentenced on June 25, 2018, by Chief Judge, Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Gary Auerswald, 61, Edgerton, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 24 months in federal prison for failing to pay taxes withheld from his employees'...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Brittan Ezekiel Kettles, aka “Low Low," 26, of Nashville, Tennessee, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of conspiracy to sex traffic a person under the age of 14 and sex trafficking a person under the age of 14, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President Trump announced that the Administration will rely on the Congressional legislative process as the basis for action against foreign investment that affects U.S. technology by revamping the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FELIX LOPEZ, also known as “Pablo," 23, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for distributing narcotics to a Norwich overdose victim last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for robbing five banks throughout April and June 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - Shane Courtney, 50, of Great Falls, Montana, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for possession of child pornography. Courtney pleaded guilty Jan. 24, 2018 to one count of possession of child pornography. Courtney admitted that from June 2005 through Feb. 28, 2017, he possessed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Syriane Baldwin, a/k/a “Del", 31, of Bangor was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and oxycodone. He pled guilty to the charge on Oct. 25, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced yesterday the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, Nermin Awad El-Hadik, 42-year-old owner of Hope Pharmacy, Inc., in Houston, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for paying kickbacks in a health care fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined Washington Post Live’s “Tax Reform in America: The Six-Month Report" to discuss the six months since tax reform was enacted to law. Chairman Brady sat down for an in-depth interview with The Post’s Robert Costa to review the booming economy and what phase two is really about.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on a Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA) located near Sierra Vista, AZ.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JEREMY SHAWN PARKE, 46, of Moore, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shawnette Isaac, age 41, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to serve 30 months’ imprisonment today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for her role in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Monroe County during 2012 through 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: The ringleader of a fentanyl, heroin and cocaine distribution center was sentenced to 24 years in prison. His co-defendant was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison, for helping to distribute the controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment today against Arlina Alexander-Zaplutus, 50, formerly of Elk Grove, charging her with making false statements in bankruptcy cases, and falsification of documents in bankruptcy, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used Money Stolen from Customers to Help Fund Election Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - June 29, 2018 - Three Nashville men are facing federal firearms charges relating to the armed robbery of Music City Pawn on Tuesday, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that upwind states do not need to do more to address cross-state air pollution under the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
