News from June 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued the following statements after the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report titled, “Black Lung Benefits Program: Options...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Copper Center, AK - Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve Superintendent Ben Bobowski is initiating a series of public listening sessions to engage all resident zone communities and federally recognized tribal governments in discussions about management of wilderness, frontcountry and backcountry...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management will waive amenity-related fees at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for National Get Outdoors Day on June 9. Other fees, such as group day use, will remain in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Announces 311 New Assistant United States Attorney Positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Sullivan was honored today with an Arthur S. Flemming Award for his work in preventing and prosecuting crimes involving the exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict today against Frank Smith, also known as “Fresh," a member of a Coney Island-based street gang known as “Rival Impact," on charges of racketeering and two counts each of murder-in-aid-of racketeering and causing a death through the use of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A registered sex offender in Springfield, Mo., has been sentenced in federal court for receiving and distributing thousands of images of child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick R. McQuade, 29, of North Tonawanda, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of a controlled substance by fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Frank Smith, a Member of Coney Island-Based “Rival Impact," Gunned Down the Victims in Gang War with “Thirty-O" Crew.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - On the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town for the District of Northern Alabama announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: The District of Massachusetts Will Receive Five New Federal Prosecutors To Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A national sales executive for Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., a subsidiary of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (Dr. Pepper), was sentenced Friday to 33 months in federal prison for submitting more than $1.7 million dollars worth of fraudulent invoices to Dr. Pepper through a promotions and marketing company he formed in his wife’s name.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: A Warrensville Heights man was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for helping lead a conspiracy that brought large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine into Greater Cleveland from Chicago and Yonkers, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. FBI agents took Hansen into custody while he was on his way to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, to board a connecting flight to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine man who pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to a bogus commodities trading program that caused losses of approximately $1.6 million was sentenced today to 121 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national convicted and incarcerated multiple times on federal and state drug trafficking charges today admitted in federal court to being an armed career criminal while trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch andBrian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New England Field Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER). MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Two Additional Prosecutors to the District of Hawaii to Focus on Violent Crime and Civil Enforcement.
