News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a recent report identified at least $536 million in questionable contracting costs in Afghanistan, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today called for answers from the Pentagon. The report, issued in May by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Defense, also found that the Army paid $2.4 billion in total costs from 2015 to 2017 with little or no examination of supporting documentation under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two men who participated in a series of armed bank robberies attributed to the “Bladed Bandit" because one of the robbers brandished a large knife each have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple counts of armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Derrick Burney (40, Jacksonville) to 57 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Burney pleaded guilty on March 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, WV-United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a former Federal Bureau of Prisons official pled guilty to unlawfully engaging in sexual activity with female inmates at the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that a total of fifteen defendants have been indicted as part of a drug conspiracy. In December 2017, four defendants, John Phillip Drawdy, age 39, Leigh Antley McCamy, age 36, Blake Allen Smith, age 28, and Kimberly Hartley...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that seven individuals were awarded a total of $60,000 for their innovative software architecture concepts and software technologies to support field data collection using mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 51 months’ imprisonment, followed by six years’ supervised release, on his conviction of conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, WV-United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a former Federal Bureau of Prisons official pled guilty to unlawfully engaging in sexual activity with female inmates at the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DANIELLE DANA LAYMAN, 38, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for possessing the toxin ricin, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Gifted and talented students in fifth- through eighth-grade participated in Exploration & Imagination Station Day to expand their interest and knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum and job opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former executive vice president of State Street Corporation was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston in connection with engaging in a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients through secret commissions applied to billions of dollars of securities trades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Former State Street Executive Convicted in Scheme to Defraud Clients Through Secret Trading Commissions on Billions of Dollars of Securities Trades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Attack Took Place in Courthouse Cellblock.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Conspirators Retrieved hundreds of Kilos of Cocaine from the High Sea for Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO - On June 26, 2018, Chad Lee Vonk, a 22-year-old resident of Lenore, Idaho, was sentenced to a term of incarceration of 10 years followed by 5 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge on felony charges of Hostage Taking and Strangulation. Mr. Vonk pled guilty to both crimes on Nov. 30, 2017. Vonk’s guilty pleas were related to two different indictments for a pair of consolidated cases in Northern Idaho.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded committee passage of legislation to establish U.S. international policy for cyberspace. H.R. 3776, The “Cyber Diplomacy Act of 2017", which passed the House of Representatives in January, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Contact: Robin Snyder. Release Date: Immediate. Phone No: 434-665-6331. Archaeological Excavation in the Park at the Coleman Site. Appomattox, Va. - Archaeologists from the University of South Carolina are partnering with Appomattox Court House NHP and the Northeast Regional Archaeology Program to perform...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Oak Ridge site for its performance from Oct. 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, amounting to 92 percent of the total award fee available.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: On June 21, 2018, a grand jury in Miami indicted three individuals for their alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme that targeted investors throughout the Nation, defrauding them out of approximately $2 million. The main office operated out of Broward County, Florida.
