News from May 2018
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In light of new reporting from The New Yorker, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked Treasury’s Inspector General to probe the alleged disappearance of suspicious activity reports (SARs) on Michael Cohen. Wyden has also requested that the Financial...
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Eleno Quinteros, Jr., the former vice president of operations for two airline mechanic staffing companies, was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 12 months in prison for making false statements in support of legal permanent resident petitions for dozens of the companies’ mechanics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert Scott and Xavier Grove pled guilty on Wednesday for their part in the robbery of Jared the Galleria of Jewelry on Monday, December 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- Tywone Eli Reed, age 38, of Georgetown, South Carolina, was convicted in federal court, in Charleston, of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, as well as a quantity of cocaine and crack cocaine; possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Arrest Made During Investigation Into Aliso Viejo Bombing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Norman Hinton, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton was sentenced today to 42 months incarceration, to be served consecutively to his current sentence, for assaulting another inmate, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today after a nearly three-month trial, a federal jury convicted the two highest ranking officers of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization (Bandidos)--National President Jeffrey Fay Pike and National Vice President Xavier Portillo--on federal racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that an illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty Wednesday to using his phone and an online account to acquire and possess child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Richard Torruellas (a.k.a. “Scoob"), 23, of Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 54 months imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford sitting in U.S. District Court in...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Vernal Field Office is releasing a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing potential impacts of the proposed Enefit American Oil Utility Corridor Project, located approximately 40 miles south of Vernal, Utah.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: The number of stocks on the overfishing list also remained near all-time lows, an encouraging indicator that the U.S. fishery management system is achieving its long-term sustainability goals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: NICHOLAS GARCIA (“GARCIA"), age 32, of Houma, Louisiana, was indicted today for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of JOSHUA FRANCIS HILL, 20, to 236 months in prison for the murder of a minor victim on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. HILL, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2018, was sentenced on May 15, 2018, before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 399,000 visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore in 2017 spent $20.9 million dollars in communities near the park. That spending supported 309 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $23.2 million dollars.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: * Norris campground will be closed until further notice.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Since the original Electronic Recovery and Access to Data (ERAD) Prepaid Card Reader’s release in 2015, more than 900 agencies in 42 states, as well as in tribal and international communities, have successfully used the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) ...
By State Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today delivered a statement at a Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing entitled “Global Health Supply Chain Management: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a former executive board member of the Old Agency District of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe, was sentenced in federal court to 16 months of imprisonment. Barbara Kirk, 66, of Sisseton, South Dakota, was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $100,620, and to serve three years of supervised release following her prison sentence.
