News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region today issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Hoover Dam Fiber Optic Cable Replacement Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Complaint Affidavit Alleges Criminal Activity Related to Bombing in Minnesota; Attempted Bombing of Champaign, Ill., Women's Clinic, and Other Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is recruiting teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) program this summer. The TRT program is a professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers to spend the summer acquiring new skills in experiential learning through a program...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Preston James, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine on four occasions.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 31, at 7:30 am, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a 2-hour, 2.5 mile hike focusing on modern and historical birding in Chickamauga Battlefield. This tour will begin at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, then caravan to the program site.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MOHSEN YOUSSEF, 27, formerly of Vernon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud offenses relating to a scheme to secure more than $3 million in funding for his purported pita manufacturing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - William A. Novick, of McMechen, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for fentanyl distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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, and Rep. John Sarbanes, Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released a new “Sunshine Week" video detailing the cloud of secrecy surrounding the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the appointment of six new U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC), joining the nine members announced on Nov. 13, 2017. The AGAC was created in 1973 and reports to the Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is proud to announce that three VIPs (Volunteers-in-Parks) have been selected for their outstanding service to their respective divisions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Crimes Cost Government More Than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Eighty-Four, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - As of March 1, customers have been able to reserve campground sites on Recreation.gov, including the BLM-operated Indian Creek Campground, which is adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County and is scheduled to open on May 4, barring weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant Arrested Last Fall After Fleeing from Police.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 4465, the “Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017" (Rep. John Curtis, R-UT), legislation to achieve the dual goals of recovering endangered fish populations in the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins while continuing to meet regional water and power development needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 12, 2018, Roscoe Peter Begay, 37, of Tonalea, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 12 years in prison, followed by a term of five years of supervised release. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua Davis, 36, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 37 months in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for accessing child pornography. Davis pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh, an American citizen born in Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 45 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan following his Sept. 29, 2017 trial conviction of multiple offenses covering seven years of terrorist...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Escapee from Federal Supervision Goes Back to Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today joined U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) in issuing the following joint statement regarding an agreement to provide fair tax treatment for all agricultural businesses...
