News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Federal criminal complaint alleges that Ussery intentionally initiated confrontations with victims claiming Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting incident was a hoax.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Elmwood Park man has been charged with federal drug offenses for allegedly importing a fentanyl analogue from China to the Chicago area.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today recognized the winners of the 2018 “Making a Difference" National Volunteer Awards. These awards acknowledge the winners’ exceptional volunteer service on BLM-managed public lands in 2017. This year’s awardees were honored during a ceremony that connected winners across the country via video teleconferences at BLM offices in several states and in Washington, D.C.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today held a hearing examining the U.S. Olympic community’s ability to protect athletes from sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel gates through Memorial Day weekend beginning 10 a.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Woman Charged with Dexter, New Mexico Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for offering to pay a witness who was testifying in a federal lawsuit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 65 months in prison for participating in the December 2015 robbery of a North Jersey bar and the violent carjacking and kidnapping that took place shortly afterwards, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to review H.R. 5385, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018, authored by #SubHealth Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) and #SubHealth Chairman Burgess. H.R. 5385 will reauthorize the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program for five years. The authorization for the program expires on Sept. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thirteen people were arrested this week as part of a federal and state investigation into Medicaid fraud allegedly committed by the owners and operators of medical transportation companies based in Essex County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former chairman of a Boston-based biomedical company, previously called Endeavor Power Corp., pleaded guilty today to making false statements to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") in connection with the SEC’s investigation into a scheme to defraud the market for Endeavor’s publicly traded stock.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today held a hearing examining the U.S. Olympic community’s ability to protect athletes from sexual abuse.
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, yesterday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, applauded the committee's passage of America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. Senator Carper is the lead co-sponsor and negotiator of the bipartisan legislation, which received a unanimous 21-0 vote at yesterday's business meeting and will now be reported to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Matthew Barden, Associate Special Agent in Charge of the DEA St. Louis Division, announces substantial prison sentences as the result of two large-scale drug investigations, led by the DEA office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In one case, Ryan Buchheim, 48, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received a 20-year...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Warns of Posting Hoax Threats to Institutions and Launches Campaign to Educate the Public to #ThinkBeforeYouPost.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LEONARD RAY FOSTER, 48, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 188 months in prison for fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud retailers of millions of dollars through gift cards, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging DANNIE SIMON PARKER, JR., 47, of Raleigh, with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: A Pompano Beach resident was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in federal prison, after having been convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Help Saguaro National Park Catch a Burglary Suspect.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA, Mont. - A Montana man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for illegally exporting firearms, and illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
