News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Darby, PA tax preparer, who used the identities of disabled children and children in foster care to file false federal income tax returns, was sentenced in federal court today to 120 months in prison and $83,870 restitution, announced U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain. Musa Turay, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) last week approved a critical safety basis plan needed before Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) can begin vitrifying low-activity tank waste.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: On June 1, 2018, Neil Timothy Aho, 45, of Menlo Park, California, was sentenced to 17 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Bellingham man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on child pornography charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement on the 2018 Medicare Trustees Report and 2018 Social Security Trustees Report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Chicago brothers were sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for defrauding and attempting to defraud banks out of $4 million in an airplane loan scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Deciphered Gift Card Identifying Numbers to Steal Balances and Commit Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: * Penny Allyson Behr, age 53, from Cypress, Texas was attacked by a cow elk in an accidental encounter behind the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel on the morning of Tuesday, June 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jeffry Rodriguez, a/k/a “Hyper," age 22, of Capitol Heights, Maryland pleaded guilty today to his participation in a racketeering enterprise in furtherance of the activities of the gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including his participation in a drug robbery intended to support the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: In less than 18 months on the job, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made significant progress in reducing crime and improving morale among federal, state and local law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT EPPS, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Representatives from EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), its cleanup contractor CH2MHILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently presented checks to Bertrand Chaffee Hospital (BCH), Mercy Flight, and the West Valley Fire District 1 on behalf of WVDP.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on cocaine and heroin distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: LOVELL, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office will repair a portion of the John Blue Canyon Road (BLM Road 1122) east of Lovell beginning June 11. The work is expected to continue for up to two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Bluefield man entered a guilty plea to a federal drug distribution charge. Lansen Waugh, 38, pled guilty to distribution of a quantity of hydromorphone, admitting that on August 8, 2017, he distributed hydromorphone pills to a confidential informant in Princeton. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN. A member of the “Stackz Squad" street gang has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for being a drug user in possession of firearms. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: 20-Year-Old Had Previous Conviction for Sex Acts with Minor Victim.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office seeks public input on an environmental assessment evaluating bait trapping wild horses in the Little Bookcliffs Herd Management Area northeast of Grand Junction.
