News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Justin Michael Hannah, age 38, of Hanahan, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Charleston, to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today for conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of fentanyl resulting in an overdose death, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today to examine the digital advertising ecosystem and its implications for consumer privacy and data protection. WHY: #SubDCCP Chairman Latta said, “The online advertising ecosystem...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Delaware - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) Philadelphia special agents and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware returned Thursday a more than 500-year-old copy of Christopher Columbus’ letter describing his discoveries in...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today to review the progress of the Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, including program implementation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as well as action items and overall...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a grand jury in Hartford returned a four-count superseding indictment yesterday charging TIMOTHY ESTRIDGE, 37, of Wallingford, with drug trafficking offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) today sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta regarding the national opioid public health emergency. The letter urged the Secretary to fight the scourge of addiction by using the Job Corps program to engage young adults and improve their employment outcomes and recovery efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today to review the progress of the Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, including program implementation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as well as action items and overall...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. -, School’s out for most which means summertime fun, including train ride excursions from Steamtown National Historic Site in downtown Scranton. Our June 2018 schedule has something for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tanya Jumroon, also known as Thunyarax Phatanakit Jumroon, 59, of Beaverton, Oregon, and a naturalized citizen originally from Thailand, pleaded guilty today in a U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, to financially benefitting from forced labor, visa fraud conspiracy, and filing a false...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: June 15, 2018, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Communities around the world are focusing on the abuse, fraud, neglect, and schemes perpetrated against older individuals. As South Dakota’s United States Attorney, I take very seriously the role of our office in protecting older South Dakotans.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced the “Place to Worship Initiative," which will focus on protecting the ability of houses of worship and other religious institutions to build, expand, buy, or rent facilities - as provided by the land use provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing grave concerns about the health and safety of children in the custody of HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ORR is the department responsible for caring for children who enter the United States without immigration status and parent or legal guardians to care for or take custody of them.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and members of the committee advanced two nominees and 14 bills, including legislation to protect against drone threats and a bill that would allow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president of Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) and his brother - a senior employee at the now-defunct company - were sentenced today to federal prison terms for their respective roles in a conspiracy in which millions of dollars in bribes were paid to physicians for blood sample referrals worth more than $100 million to the company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Marshals Service and Drug Enforcement Administration, working with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, recently completed the first phase of “Operation We Are CLE," resulting in the arrests of more than 200 people, confiscation of 36 firearms and seizure of 60 kilograms of cocaine and nearly five kilograms of heroin in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Closter, New Jersey, man today admitted producing and selling fraudulent massage therapy training certificates for use in various New Jersey massage parlors that engaged in prostitution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Closter, New Jersey, man today admitted producing and selling fraudulent massage therapy training certificates for use in various New Jersey massage parlors that engaged in prostitution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
