News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for a hearing on the opioid crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Aubrey Trail, 51, and Bailey Boswell, 24, formerly of Wilber, Nebraska, both pleaded guilty today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property before Magistrate Judge Cheryl Zwart. In connection with the guilty plea...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has reopened the upper sections of the Little South Fork Elk River Trail in the Headwaters Forest Reserve, as muddy conditions have improved.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., May 8, 2018) - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today applauded First Lady Melania Trump’s policy initiative, Be Best, a campaign focused on the holistic wellness of American children.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sandra J. Stevens, f/k/a “Sandra J. Putnam," has been charged with abusing her position as a high-ranking member of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation by ringing up more than 325 personal charges, totaling over $60,000, on her government credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Both Groups Allegedly Distributed Methamphetamine and Heroin throughout Puget Sound Region.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the rescissions package President Trump submitted to Congress today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, TN-The FBI Knoxville’s Safe Streets Task Force is releasing newly discovered details about the man who robbed the Enrichment Federal Credit Union last month. Agents believe the man dubbed “The Edentulism Bandit" entered the financial institution armed with a handgun last month. He approached...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ULPIANO LUGO, 37, of Groton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin and/or cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Justin Parker of Monroeville, Alabama was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to a violation of 18 USC Section 922(g), Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, in two separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Together with a record-setting number of local, state, and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Timothy G. Zani, 39, of Berwick, Maine, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Twaine Willie, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Farmington, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge. Willie entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends that he be sentenced to a prison term within the range of 24 to 30 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Assistant Secretary Anne White joined elected officials, Hanford Site leadership, and union leaders to celebrate the grand opening of the Hanford Workforce Engagement Center May 3.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Howard Edward Brooks, 40, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of receipt, attempted distribution, and four counts of possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors, was sentenced to 84 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer. The defendant must also register as a sex offender.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Dent, Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, and Chairman Frelinghuysen, for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A project manager for a real estate development company headquartered in Newport, RI, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he allegedly devised and executed a scheme in which he obtained more than $200,000 by forging endorsements on checks made payable to subcontractors and then depositing the proceeds into a bank account under his control.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Nov. 15, 2017, Mammoth Cave Dairy Auction Inc. (Mammoth), Smiths Grove, Ky., waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and paid a penalty of $2,750 for an alleged violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KAM WONG, the chief executive officer and president of the oldest New York credit union (the “Credit Union"), a non-profit financial institution, was charged in Manhattan federal court with fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Tedderick Fields to four years and three months in federal prison for filing false claims with the Internal Revenue Service. He was also ordered to pay $7,775 in restitution to the IRS. Fields pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2018.
