News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and United States Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., of the Northern District of Illinois, today announced that the district will receive additional resources to combat violent crime, enforce federal immigration laws and attack the opioid crisis. The Northern District...
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: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Joseph Bassler (62, St. Petersburg) to three years and one month in federal prison for money laundering and mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $77,224, the proceeds of the scheme. Bassler had pleaded guilty on June 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates 3 Prosecutors to the District of Vermont to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-A man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded gun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint early this morning, June 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WHEELING - On the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia Bill Powell 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: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Stanley Hagan, Jr. (33, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the internet. Hagan was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 114,300 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Three Prosecutors to the Northern District of California to Focus on Violent Crime and Civil Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Noel Guest, 62, of Mabank, Texas, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 240 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2016 to transportation and shipment of child pornography, announced Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Statement from U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town on Mayor Randall L. Woodfin’s announcement of Patrick Smith, a commander with the Los Angeles Police Department and a native of Tuscaloosa, as Birmingham’s chief of police.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: VALENTINE, NE - From above, Earth appears as a water planet with more than 71 percent of its surface covered with this vital resource for life. Water impacts climate, agriculture, transportation, industry and more. It inspires art and music. The Niobrara National Scenic River (NSR), in cooperation with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Bank Admits to Making over $90 Million in Corrupt Payments and Acknowledges Manipulation of Global Benchmark Interest Rate, Impacting Financial Products Traded Worldwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Legg Mason Inc. Agrees to Pay $64 Million in Criminal Penalties and Disgorgement to Resolve FCPA Charges Related to Bribery of Gaddafi-Era Libyan Officials.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service has released a prospectus soliciting for proposals for a business opportunity to sell visitor convenience items at visitor centers and other locations at various parks within the Pacific West Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Florida Man Sentenced to 26 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Illegally Export Defense Articles to Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Greensboro, North Carolina returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, charging the operators of a mental health provider with multiple crimes related to the submission of false claims to Medicaid and tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Fernando Alanis, 55, of Rio Grande City, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to three years and three months in prison for two counts of mail fraud related to an unemployment insurance fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: By comparing different types of remote atomic clocks, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have performed the most accurate test ever of a key principle underlying Albert Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity relates to space and time.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin and Acting Commissioner Kautter...
