News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, introduced legislation Tuesday that would expand executive authority to reorganize federal agencies.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted the Trump administration’s total lack of compliance with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Chris Coons and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to reconsider the agency's June 8 proposal to deny four Clean Air Act 126(b) petitions filed by the State of Delaware to reduce harmful emissions from power plants in upwind states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DAVID SILVA PESTANO, 33, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment for trafficking heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup considering five public health measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced the results of a year-long, coordinated national...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Snow Camp man who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography was sentenced today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Fierro, 43, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 15 years of imprisonment for his conviction on kidnapping and firearms charges. Fierro will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Dante Starks, a close associate of former City of Opa Locka Commissioner Luis Santiago, pled guilty yesterday, before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez, to charges arising from his participation in the long-running Opa Locka municipal corruption conspiracy and his failure to file federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Larry Brandon Moore, 31, of Gastonia, N.C. was sentenced to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for threatening to kill Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell and Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Deborah Gulledge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Elvin Castron-Murcia, 19, a Honduran native residing between Louisiana and Tennessee, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with traveling for illicit sexual conduct, transportation of a minor for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, man today admitted committing three armed robberies in Salem, Ocean, and Cumberland counties in November 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of JOSE ANDRES VERA-GUTIERREZ, a/k/a “Bullet," 36, for methamphetamine trafficking. After a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the jury found VERA-GUTIERREZ guilty of one count of conspiracy...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s Proclamation 9645 Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats: "It ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Federal indictments were unsealed today charging current and former supervisory corrections officers at the Cheatham County Jail in Ashland City, Tennessee, with federal civil rights and obstruction offenses, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with Triple H Services LLC, (Triple H), a landscaping company based in Newland, North Carolina, that conducts business in Virginia and four other states. The agreement resolves the Department’s investigation into whether Triple H discriminated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: This year, for the first time, the 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act provides for three percent of funds from the Crime Victims Fund to be used to support a broad set-aside program for Indian tribes to improve services to crime victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: A Centreville, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to two counts of producing child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Fairfax County Chief of Police Colonel Edwin C. Roessler Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement on the Supreme Court's ruling in NIFLA v. Becerra: “We are pleased that today’s decision protects Americans’ freedom of speech. Speakers should not be forced by their government to promote a message with which they disagree, and pro-life ...
