News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMEL UPSON, a/k/a “Flynt," was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for racketeering offenses arising out of his participation in the “Boss Playa Family" or “BPF" street gang based in Mount Vernon...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Former Nashville Judge Indicted on Additional Federal Obstruction and Theft Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Larry Kudlow was selected as the next Director of the National Economic Council...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, March 15, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) together with the Ohio Department of Agriculture today announced that the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) is eradicated from Stonelick Township in Clermont County, Ohio.“The cooperative ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: ATF, Glynn County Sheriff’s Office, McIntosh Sheriff’s Office Dismantle Major Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - David Lawrence Krueger, 39, of Farmington, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms. At sentencing, Krueger faces a maximum penalty of ten years of imprisonment unless the court determines that he is an armed career criminal. In that event, Krueger will face an enhanced sentence of a statutory mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years of imprisonment and a maximum of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national formerly residing in Methuen was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for federal drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Jamel Upson, a/k/a “Flynt," was the leader of the “Boss Playa Family" or “BPF" street gang and committed several shootings, including two murders, in furtherance of the gang.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Contact: Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski. Grand Canyon, AZ- On Friday, March 16, 2018 Grand Canyon National Park will begin phasing to Level 3 water restrictions and conservation measures due to a series of breaks in the Transcanyon Waterline. Until park staff repairs the break and water in storage tanks reaches...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that PASQUALE F. FURANO, 48, of Greenwich, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans released a staff report detailing findings from the Committee’s oversight of federal agencies’ regulatory guidance documents. The report compiles information received from dozens of agencies and shows both best practices and problem areas with regulatory guidance practices.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on recent trade actions, particularly the section 232 determinations on steel and aluminum. The hearing will take place on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 9:00 AM.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SALMON, Idaho - Effective today, the BLM Salmon Field Office is temporarily closing the Discovery Hill Bluffs Road due to highly erosive soil conditions. Idaho's weather is changing by the minute, and continued moisture is affecting some recreational areas. The road will open as soon as soil conditions dry out enough to reduce erosion concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging an alleged MS-13 member residing in Arlington, Virginia with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a tax scam report outlining concerns from small business owners who say Trump’s tax law has created an increase in financial uncertainty. The report, “Tax Code and Small Business: Even More Bizarre and More Unfair than Before, " also explores how Republicans’ new pass-through loophole may result in small business owners spending more on tax professionals than on growing their operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John Fishel Jr., age 44, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on firearms charges.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, a bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation to promote more effective development in fragile and unstable countries, addressing the conditions that create safe havens for terrorists, criminal networks, and war lords. The Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act (H.R.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two Fayette County brothers were sentenced to federal prison today on drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Cheyenne Fragale, 30, and Macon Fragale, 34, both from Boomer, previously entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Wide-Ranging Operation Filed over 12,000 Fraudulent Tax Returns Seeking More than $42 Million.
