News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: The Powder Mill River Access on the Current River along Highway 106 is temporarily closed to vehicles due to a washout of the paved road near the access point. This closure does not affect walk-in use of the river access, which remains open to foot traffic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Following a four-month trial, a federal jury in Buffalo, New York, has convicted three leaders and members of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC), including the National President, of multiple charges for their roles in a major racketeering operation that involved violence and murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Betty Miller, 70, formerly of Shelburne, Vermont, pled guilty today to a one count superseding information charging her with knowingly possessing Ricin in violation of 18 U.S.C. §175b(c). Miller’s plea came pursuant to a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Felicia Charleston, 36, of Philadelphia, was sentenced on May 16 to 10 months in federal prison for using her position as a postal carrier to deliver packages containing marijuana to drug dealers in West Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain. Charleston was sentenced by U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) delivered the following remarks during an Environment Subcommittee hearing today today on, "H.R. 2278, The Responsible Disposal Reauthorzation Act of 2017, and H.R. 2389, To Reauthorize the West Valley Democstration Project and for Other Purposes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: 70 Defendants That Were Previously Charged Have Pled Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Mattison, age 46, of Fort Edward, New York, pled guilty yesterday to sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MACON - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Eulalio Martinez, age 38, a citizen of Mexico residing in Alma, Georgia, has been found guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine 4,923 grams of pure (Count 1) and Illegal (Count 2), following a four-day jury trial before Senior District Court Judge Hugh Lawson in Macon. Mr. Martinez was indicted on the charges on June 14, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MILWAUKEE, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited C & D Technologies Inc. for exposing employees to lead and failing to implement an effective lead management program. The Milwaukee battery manufacturer faces proposed penalties of $147,822 for two repeated and six serious violations.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the “Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act" (H.R. 5861).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Fernando Clarke, a former investigator with the New York City Department of Correction, was sentenced by United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt to 10 years’ imprisonment, following his March 2018 jury trial conviction on seven counts of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault pled guilty and was sentenced on May 17, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Boyles, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration and ordered to pay back more than $240,000 for health care fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) delivered the following remarks during an Environment Subcommittee hearing today today on, "H.R. 2278, The Responsible Disposal Reauthorzation Act of 2017, and H.R. 2389, To Reauthorize the West Valley Democstration Project and for Other Purposes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - After a five-day trial, a federal jury returned five guilty verdicts for the United States finding that Melvin Harmon conspired to defraud the United States by assisting Missouri residents in registering their cars in Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISO - Drs. William Longton, Ruben Kalra, and Richard Shinaman have agreed to collectively pay $260,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that they failed to keep and maintain adequate records and other allegations pertaining to controlled substances at their Novato, Pleasant...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Early Thursday morning, law enforcement authorities arrested an alleged gang member who had been a fugitive for nearly two years after the unsealing of a federal racketeering indictment that charges him in the attempted murder of an undercover Whittier Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Deandre L. Davis, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining the emergence of quantum computing and the importance of the U.S. remaining at the forefront of developing this innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: DALLAS -Juan Mauricio Araujo, Jr., aka “Pelon", 35, was sentenced on Monday, May 14, 2018, before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
