News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: KING CITY, Calif. - Wild horses and burros from western public rangelands will be available for public adoption, Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8, at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds, 625 Division St., in King City. The Bureau of Land Management will offer 15 wild horses, all under 5-years-old, 10 gelding burros and 10 female burros.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Employees from 15 different national parks have helped Prince William Forest Park clear over 800 trees, repair downed power lines and assess damage to historic buildings following the March 2-3 windstorm. Prince William Forest Park remains closed to the public due to safety concerns, but crews are making impressive progress with the help from additional resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brent E. Clark, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a 60-month term of imprisonment at each count of conviction, to run concurrently, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, at each count to run concurrently, on charges of distribution of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: A Los Angeles, California-based dentist was charged in an indictment unsealed on Monday for his alleged participation in a health care fraud and identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant Helped Launch a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device Attack against U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan in January 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a federal jury has unanimously convicted DEMITORIS “Big Tachi" ALEXANDER, age 52, of Gonzales and COLIN KNOX, age 39, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on all charges following a six-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick, including...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM's Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Management Melody Bell was the keynote speaker at a recent event sponsored by DOE in celebration of Women’s History Month. Bell traced a timeline from the 1909 International Women’s Day to congressional and presidential support starting in 1987 to designate March to highlight the contributions of women in history and in the present day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH PERCOCO, the former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor of the State of New York, was convicted of soliciting and accepting more than $315,000 in bribes in return for taking official state...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution, receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the U.S. Department of the Interior’s $11.7 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Gregory Stephen, age 42, from Monticello, Iowa, has been charged with one count of knowingly transporting child pornography across state lines. The charge is contained in a Complaint filed today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 12, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Ashley Marie Moore, 29, Minot, ND, on charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child; and Distribution of Images Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who was already serving a 25-year prison sentence for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization pleaded guilty today to trying to kill the warden of the federal prison where he was serving his sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly requesting documents relating to John McEntee, President Trump’s personal assistant, who was fired and immediately rushed out of the White House yesterday because of an unspecific security issue, according to multiple press reports.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution, receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Thomas Wheeler, 33, a former Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officer, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 61 months in federal prison and a $1,500 fine for attempted possession of 50 kilograms or more of marijuana with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Sean Michael Seney, 40, has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for bank fraud and identity theft, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Modernizing Export Controls: Protecting Cutting-Edge Technology and U.S. National Security.".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - Interagency fire crews with the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office and the Inyo National Forest will be conducting pile burning operations over the next week in Bridgeport Valley, Mono County, as weather and air quality conditions allow.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement at a hearing to examine threats to U.S. interests from fragile states. The committee heard testimony from former British Prime Minister David Cameron, chairman of the Commission on State Fragility, Growth, and Development.
