News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Boise District Resource Advisory Council, demonstrating that partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on April 4, 2018 at 3948 Development Ave., Boise, ID, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Four Columbus men have been sentenced in U.S. District Court for crimes related to participating in a dog-fighting ring in central Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) recently began dissolving spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in eastern Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania returned a superseding indictment today adding charges in a pending criminal case against a Philadelphia-area political consultant announced U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Christopher M. Turner, age 45, of Spokane, Washington was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Dec. 20, 2017, to possession of child pornography. Chief United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of ALIREZA JALALI, 39, to 15 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to defraud the United States. JALALI, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2017, was sentenced today before United States District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Owens pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to unlawfully prescribing oxycodone hydrochloride without a medical purpose, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The plea was accepted by the Honorable William Alsup, U.S. District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: The committee meets this morning to discuss the nomination of two individuals to serve at the Department of Health and Human Services...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 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. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly requesting documents relating to gag orders White House staff have reportedly been ordered to sign.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Christopher Arroyo was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. The sentencing proceeding was held before United States District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who also imposed a term of five years’ supervised release to follow Arroyo’s prison sentence, during which time he must register as a sex offender, and he will not be allowed unsupervised contact with minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Eskandar Molavi, 69, of Frisco, Texas, is in federal custody following his arrest Friday, March 16, 2018 on federal charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to have his former business partner kidnapped and possibly killed. The announcement was made this afternoon by Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today made a statement following the release of a proposal by congressional Republicans that would have a negative impact on the individual health insurance market...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Peru during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jacobi Temple, 27, of Saint Louis, MO, pled guilty yesterday, March 26, 2018, for his killing of James Lacey, Paige Schaefer, and Tammie Thurmond. Mr. Lacey and Ms. Schaefer were shot and killed inside a residence located in the 4400 block of Itaska in the City of Saint Louis. Ms. Thurmond was found by police in an alley behind the 4200 block of South 37th Street and died a short time later.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 338 years, one month and 11 days imprisonment, followed by a lifetime supervised release, on charges of production, distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Eris Manuel Paulino Guerrero, also known as Edward Garcia, 28, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on Monday to serve 87 months in federal prison for drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached settlement agreements with the Inn at Longshore in Westport, the Pearl at Longshore Restaurant in Westport, and the Town of Westport, to resolve allegations that the Inn at Longshore and the Pearl at Longshore Restaurant were not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged senators to oppose an attempt by sponsors of a resolution on Yemen to bypass the committee process and force consideration in the full Senate. Corker noted the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: April Sherman and David Boyce Will Both Serve Time in Federal Prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A western Wisconsin man, who illegally enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity, was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for his crime.