News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of McKees Rocks, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of escape from custody, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ali Ratib Daham, 41, of Westbrook, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for SNAP and WIC trafficking conspiracy, money laundering...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: STINTSON BEACH, CA -A new opportunity is on the horizon as Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) invites interested parties to submit a proposal for the food and beverage operation at Stinson Beach.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NASA held the NASA iTech Cycle II forum, an event devoted to solving tough energy challenges on Earth and in space. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) joined NASA in hosting the event, uniting experts from multiple disciplines in the search for new energy technologies with potentially transformative implications for American competitiveness and security, as well as space exploration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Dziatkowicz, of Weirton, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: (BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Maria Guadalupe Martinez-Plascencia, 47, and Claudia Anel Cuevas-Sandoval, 37, both of Guadalajara, Mexico, were arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that a Reading, Pennsylvania woman-the eighth member of a Reading-area bank fraud ring-has been charged with fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced that all Democratic Members of the House of Representatives from Maryland have co-sponsored landmark legislation he has introduced to address the opioid crisis, H.R. 5545, The Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Lacortney D. Sanders (aka “Supreme"), age 36, of Hope, Arkansas was sentenced today to 121 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: In recent days, we have seen reporters, Members of Congress, and other groups mislead the public on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) zero-tolerance policy.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen delivered the below remarks at the White House Press Briefing on the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border: SECRETARY NIELSEN: Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be here because I would love to see if I can help explain ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Officer illegally arrested citizen after the citizen attempted to file complaints against him The Justice Department today announced that William Dukes, Jr., a former sergeant with the Providence, Kentucky, Police Department, was found guilty Friday in federal court on one count of willfully arresting a citizen without probable cause.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Former Arkansas State Senator Jake C. Files was sentenced to 18 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to obtain approximately $46,500 in state government funds through fraudulent means and for obtaining approximately $56,700 in loan proceeds, also through fraudulent means.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: A Nebraska man was sentenced to six years in prison today for possessing child pornography in May 2017, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Kelly for the District of Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Mississippi real estate investor Ivan Spinner became the sixth real estate investor to plead guilty in connection with the ongoing investigation into bid rigging at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Mississippi, the Department of Justice announced. Felony charges against Spinner were filed on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: A former special agent for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Division was convicted on June 15 after a jury in Sacramento, California found her guilty of filing false tax returns, obstruction of justice and stealing government money, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross praised President Donald J. Trump’s signing of Space Policy Directive 3 (SPD-3), America’s first National Space Traffic Management Policy. The policy acknowledges the rapidly increasing volume and diversity of commercial space activity and announces that the Department of Commerce should be the new civil agency interface for space traffic management (STM) and space situational awareness (SSA).
By DOT News Wire | Jun 18, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 18, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
