News from June 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced that the Finance Committee will convene a hearing with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to examine the use of tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The hearing will take place on June 20 at 9 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Khadin Fahie, 23, pleaded guilty before District Judge Curtis Gomez to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at least 15 but less than 40 kilogram of cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced today. Fahie sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Thomas William Hickey, 34, of Nashua was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 27 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a slate of reforms to federal Indian policy including H.R. 3744 (Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah), H.R. 2606 (Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.), and H.R. 5874 (Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D.).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith announced the selection of Cameron (Cam) Sholly to be the new Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Two Oklahoma Men Charged with Murder and Kidnapping in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 11, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Jess Harlan Mallo, age 44, Williston, ND, on charges of Possession of Materials Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Children. Judge Hovland sentenced Mallo to serve 20 years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL HARRINGTON was sentenced to two years of probation and 180 hours of community service for misapplying police resources while serving in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") as, among other things, a Deputy Chief and Executive Officer for the Chief of Department’s Office. He was sentenced by the U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY: Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest child, was an aviator who fought in the skies above France during World War I. One hundred years ago, on July 14, 1918, Quentin was killed in action.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 11, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Timothy Joshua Adam Carnahan, age 24, Longview, WA, on charges of Attempted Transportation to Engage in Unlawful Sexual Acts with a Minor. Judge Hovland sentenced Carnahan to serve 7 years and 6 months in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Teron Stevens, 27, of St. Thomas, was indicted on Friday, June 8, 2018, by a federal grand jury charging him with one count of Disaster Fraud and one count of Wire Fraud, in relation to Hurricane Irma Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster relief funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Roman Burghardt, 34, of Manchester, was sentenced to serve 180 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary James Mattis requesting information about foreign entities using U.S.-based 501(c) organizations as proxies in environmental litigation against the United States or to influence domestic environmental and natural resources laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to return taxpayer funds, which the IRS seized using its civil asset forfeiture...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - A Washington man, who has a prior conviction for sexual assault, was sentenced Monday to serve 8 ½ years in federal prison for attempting to transport a minor to engage in sexual acts.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved the Treating Barriers to Prosperity Act of 2018 (H.R. 5294), bipartisan legislation to ensure that a federal economic development program for the Appalachian region can be used to help address the opioid crisis, among the hardest hit by this national epidemic. The bill passed by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Thomas Robert Finnegan, age 38, of Easton, Pennsylvania, today to 102 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence stemming from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Thomas Robert Finnegan, age 38, of Easton, Pennsylvania, today to 102 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence stemming from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man was arrested and charged today with receiving and distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of H.R. 5904, the “No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Act."
