News from May 2018

By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Reading man, and sixth member of a Reading area bank fraud ring, was charged with fraud today, announced U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gerald Pambianco, age 29, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, and Derek Spaide, age 26, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, were indicted on May 22, 2018, by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy...

By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Maryland man with felon in possession of firearms, conspiracy to straw purchase firearms, and making false statements to federal firearms licensees.

By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: After Memorial Day, bicycle and pedestrian traffic will not be permitted on the first five miles of Hurricane Ridge Road from the intersection with Mount Angeles Road to the Heart O’ the Hills entrance station during weekday work hours.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Adam Nauveed Hayat, age 36, of Denver, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to three counts of possessing unregistered firearms, after being caught possessing pipe bombs in Downtown Denver hotel, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Special...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it will accept applications from experienced candidates to fill aviation safety positions at various facilities throughout the country. These positions are critical to the agency’s mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.

By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of George H. Richard & Son Roofing in Milton, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to filing a false tax return which failed to disclose substantial business receipts.

By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Former Kentucky State Representative Wendell Keith Hall, 58, of Pikeville, was sentenced today to two years in prison, by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for Aggravated Identity Theft. Judge Caldwell ordered that the sentence run consecutively, as required by law...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prepared Tax Returns Claiming Over $477,000 In Fraudulent Tax Refunds.

By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMAL SIMON, DAVID BOYD, a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to six years in prison for having a rifle with an obliterated serial number and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant distributed images of prepubescent girls engaged in sex acts with adult men.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former Treasurer of Jackson County, Kentucky was indicted today for stealing over $160,000 from the Jackson County government and misusing the identities of two other Jackson County employees to facilitate her thefts. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s...

By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: INTERNTIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park staff have closed a park trail from Cranberry Creek (Rainy Lake) to Locator Lake (Kabetogama Peninsula) temporarily due to flooding and beaver damage making the trail impassible and unsafe for visitors. Park staff are working on plans for reconstruction of the trail and will inform the public once the trail is ready for use.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Former Davidson County General Sessions Judge Cason “Casey" Moreland, 60, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to five counts relating to obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and stealing money from an organization receiving federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and all committee Democrats called on Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) to convene hearings on U.S.-China trade with Trump Administration representatives. Despite having constitutional authority over matters of foreign commerce and oversight over trade policy, the Ways & Means Committee has thus far exercised no oversight over the continuing trade discussions between the United States and China.

By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin the summer tours at Shasta Dam on Saturday, May 26.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Appear and Escape from Custody.