News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Pacheco, aka Michael Dominguez, 27, of Dunkirk, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 500 grams or more cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler and House Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, released the following joint statement on President Donald Trump’s family separation executive order...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 6082, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act, authored by Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), by a bipartisan vote of 357-57.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: All 24 Energy and Commerce Democrats sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) today demanding an immediate hearing on the wellbeing of the children being forcibly separated from their parents and families and placed into the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an Ecuadorian national Friday who is wanted in his home country on rape charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park rangers are partnering with state and federal transportation officials to conduct safety evaluations of commercial vehicles and operators traveling in the park this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Joshua Randall, age 30, Brandon Randall, age 29, and Lee Tracy Riggins, Jr., age 27, pled guilty to participating in a drug conspiracy that operated in the Florence, Charleston, and Myrtle Beach areas of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Raymond Williams, Daryl Duncan, Penny Duncan, and U.S. Technology Corporation pled guilty to charges involving the transportation of 9 million pounds of hazardous waste from Yazoo City, Mississippi to Berger, Missouri between October 2013 and December 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today on the economic impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, particularly on small businesses, consumers, and the energy sector. WHY: “Across the nation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is resulting in widespread...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: (SAN DIEGO) - Drug trafficker Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas, who fled during his 2009 trial and was arrested years later in Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 13, 2018 for smuggling 66 pounds of pure methamphetamine from Mexico and distributing it throughout San Diego.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Knoxville, Tennessee, man was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for recruiting individuals to cash fraudulent money orders that he received from a former South Jersey U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Traficante, 23, of Long Island, NY, who was convicted of cyberstalking and distribution of a controlled substance, was sentenced to 48 months by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 6082, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Deshalone Davis, 21 years old, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RAMIRO MARTINEZ-RAMIREZ, age 42, a native of Mexico, was sentenced on June 15, 2018, to time served by U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 6082, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act, authored by Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), by a bipartisan vote of 357-57.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: MANASSAS, Va.- The National Park Service has discovered the remains of two Civil War soldiers and a battlefield surgeon’s pit at Manassas National Battlefield Park. This is the first time in history that a surgeon’s pit at a Civil War battlefield has been professionally excavated and studied. It is also the first time that killed-in-action Civil War soldiers have been found in an amputated limb burial pit.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on today’s Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on the nomination of Peter Feldman to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairmen Frelingyhusen and Rogers. I join my chair in expressing my appreciation to the staff. From my staff: Steve Marchese, Erin Kolodjeski, Matt Washington, Liz Leibowitz, and Monica Pons, and from the Majority staff: Craig Higgins, Susan Adams, Clelia Alvarado, David Bortnick, Winnie Chang, Dean Koulouris, Megan O’Donnell and Alex Pinson. We all know that we cannot do this without them.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Martin J. Shain, 61, of Seattle, Washington, pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and tax evasion.
