News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Timothy Ortiz, a/k/a “Tyson," 25, of New York, was charged by criminal complaint in U.S. District Court with possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced FourWinds Logistics, Inc. (FourWinds) consultant Gary Cain to 68 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss, San Antonio Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 56-year-old Beaumont woman has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In the wake of fresh evidence that the oil and gas industry’s methane emissions are far greater than previously thought, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and four House Democratic colleagues today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced in federal court in Boston today for his role in an opioid trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of fentanyl, heroin, and oxycodone across Massachusetts and Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Edward Corneilus Bridges, 37, of Moss Point, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s executive session to mark-up a package of health and education bills, including: the Carl D. Perkins Career and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that U. S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced TOMMY WAYNE THOMPSON, age 32, of Labadieville, Louisiana, to 85-months imprisonment and four years of supervised release after THOMPSON pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride, distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack"), and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Department Invests $237 Million in Health Care, Municipal Centers, Schools, and Opioid Treatment, Prevention and Recovery Facilities BOX ELDER, S.D., June 27, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $237 million in 119 rural community service facilities in 29 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: A federal court in Boise, Idaho permanently enjoined Jonathan Peirsol from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced yesterday. Peirsol consented to the civil injunction order and admitted the allegations in the complaint. He previously pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return and, in May 2017, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with Teachers Test Prep Inc, (TTP), to resolve allegations that it violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by not offering its online courses in a manner accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and by not providing its one-on-one tutoring sessions in an accessible manner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require The Walt Disney Company to divest 22 Regional Sports Networks (“RSNs”) as a condition of its $71.3 billion acquisition of certain assets from Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: James Alex Fields Jr. Indicted on 30 Counts Including Hate Crime Resulting in the Death of Heather Heyer A federal grand jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville today charged an Ohio man with federal hate crimes, including a hate crime act that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: An Aruban official residing in Florida was sentenced to 36 months in prison today for money laundering charges in connection with his role in a scheme to arrange and receive corrupt payments to influence the awarding of contracts with an Aruban state-owned telecommunications corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Ahmed Abu Khatallah, aka Ahmed Mukatallah, 47, a Libyan national, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison on federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty died in the attack at the Mission and the nearby Annex in Benghazi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Tokuo Tatai, an executive of Japan-based capacitor manufacturer Elna Co. Ltd., pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Today, Solicitor General Noel Francisco issued the following statement on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: “As Solicitor General of the United States and on behalf of this Office, we are grateful and appreciative for Justice Kennedy’s tireless years of public service in our federal ...
By DOT News Wire | Jun 27, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 27, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
