News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Burgess, 51, of Stowe, was sentenced in United States District Court in Rutland to 24 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of wire fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: DALLAS-Christopher A. Faulkner, 41, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested Monday, June 18, 2018, at the Los Angeles International Airport by special agents with the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Division (IRS-CI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with assistance from Customs and Border Patrol. Faulkner...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: On June 20 the Gettysburg Foundation, the Dwight David Eisenhower Society and the National Park Service held an event where they signed a pollinator resolution to support Operation Butterfly Wings, a large landscape conservation project. Operation Butterfly Wings is about the protection of the world’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging psychologist Paul L. Smith, PhD, 54, most recently practicing in Shelby Township, Michigan, with fraudulently billing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) for neuropsychological and psychological testing that was never performed, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: President and vice president of South Florida construction company charged with defrauding low-income housing development program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: IRVIN MAYFIELD, age 40, and RONALD MARKHAM, age 39, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged by a federal grand jury in a 23 count superseding indictment for conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following remarks at House Republican Leadership’s stakeout celebrating the six month anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a 25-count superseding indictment has been filed against a criminal defense attorney and her client for allegedly smuggling drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC) for distribution to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Jose Luis Alonso DeLeon has pled guilty to an indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, a violation of 18 USC Section 922(g), which carries a maximum penalty of up to ten years imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man under investigation for more than a year for allegedly trafficking cocaine shipped from Puerto Rico has been ordered detained in federal custody after he allegedly accepted a package shipped from Puerto Rico containing approximately a kilogram of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Baldinger, 51, of Minnesota, and a transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America (PTS), appeared in federal court today in Duluth, Minn., after a federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., indicted him on charges related to his sexual assaults of a female...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service Announces Business Opportunity to Provide Ferry Services to Isle Royale National Park from Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: JUNE 21, 2018 - Approximately half (51.4 percent) of the nation’s 531 counties that were getting younger between April 2010 and July 2017 were in the Midwest, according to newly released 2017 population estimates. Out of the counties that were getting younger, the South also had a high proportion (32.4...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: Over the past several weeks, I have repeatedly requested details from you and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials regarding implementation of President Trump’s cruel and heartless policy of separating families arriving at the U.S. border. I have yet to receive...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) today signed an alliance to provide members, employers, and employees with information on how to properly select, use, maintain, and store personal protective and safety equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Burgess, 51, of Stowe, was sentenced in United States District Court in Rutland to 24 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of wire fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Join the NHTIC Staff and special guest Lance Thorup, June 30, from 10 a.m. for a unique youth program on leatherworking. Connecting kids to public lands connects them to America’s natural and cultural heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on June 14, 2018, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging MIGUEL ANGEL ARCOS-VASQUEZ, also known as “Dimas Fernando Herrarte," 26, with one count of illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported. ARCOS-VASQUEZ, a citizen of either Mexico or Guatemala, last resided in Norwalk.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, June 21, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) today announced $5.2 million in grant awards to bring nutritious, local foods into schools and create new economic opportunities for farmers. The grants, part of the USDA Farm to School Program, will impact over 6,000 schools and 2.8 million students nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national, who is illegally in the United States, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to charges related to identity theft.
