News from March 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Rien Keith Irving, age 21, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- Ronald Wayne Leavitt, age 61, of Stansbury Park, Utah, who targeted friends, members of his church, and some of their relatives in a fraud scheme, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the affinity fraud scheme Wednesday in federal court.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Grants, NM - Join a park ranger at El Malpais Visitor Center for an astronomy talk and telescope viewing on March 17, 2018 at 7:30 pm. Explore the many colors that can be found in the inky darkness of pristine night skies during a free 45 minute park ranger program. After the talk, head outside for telescope viewing.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant ANITA A. CRUZ, age 60, from Yigo, was sentenced yesterday in District Court, to 30 months imprisonment for Distribution of Methamphetamine Hydrochloride, in violation of 21 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Twenty people from 16 different countries were sworn in as United States citizens today during a Naturalization Ceremony held at the United States District Court in Jackson, Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Vice Admiral Karl L. Schultz to be the 26th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his role in masterminding multiple stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) schemes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: A 62-count second-superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, charging 19 members and associates of the Clarksville, Tennessee chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang with various federal crimes, including racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Today the Department of Justice launched its new redesign of FOIA.gov and the first iteration of the National FOIA Portal, a government-wide FOIA request portal that allows the public to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to any agency from a single place.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Earlier this week, a one-count information was filed charging Aziz Ihab Sayyed, 23, of Huntsville, Alabama, with attempting to provide services and personnel, namely himself, to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Sayyed pleaded guilty today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Adrian Wiggins, 53, a former Nurse Assistant at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, with a civil rights offense. The indictment alleges that, on Jan. 8, 2017, Wiggins repeatedly struck an individual identified by the initials W.B., a resident of the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and caused bodily injury as a result.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: A former employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) based in Afghanistan was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for soliciting approximately $320,000 in bribes from Afghan contractors in return for his assistance in U.S. government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: An Oregon man was sentenced today to serve 135 months in prison for transportation of child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer of the District of Colorado.

By Fed Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, Edinburgh, Scotland, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Edinburgh, Scotland, The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Royal Bank of Scotland ...
By Commerce News Now | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Following President Trump’s signing of a Presidential Proclamation imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum products from certain countries, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross released the following statement: “President Trump is taking action today to protect both our national security and industries ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is conducting a survey of wages paid to workers in 74 metropolitan Georgia counties on all active building and heavy construction projects to establish prevailing wage rates required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA).
By State News Post | Mar 8, 2018
The US State Department published a one page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Mar 8, 2018
The US State Department published a one page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 8, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 8, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.