News from November 2018
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will receive a field trip grant for the 2018-2019 school year from the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. Students from local communities will visit the park, learning about its peoples, ecosystems, and landscapes. This grant is part of the Foundation’s Open OutDoors for Kids program which creates pathways for kids to explore and connect with national park experiences.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - NICHOLAS GARCIA (“GARCIA"), age 33, of Houma, Louisiana, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating for approximately five hours, a federal jury found Price Montgomery guilty of violating federal drug, firearms, witness tampering and money laundering laws and James Perrin guilty of violating federal drug and firearms laws. Montgomery’s conviction for killing a federal witness carries a mandatory life sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that an Arnaudville man was sentenced to 90 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management proposes to offer 156 parcels, totaling nearly 217,519 acres in lands managed by the Canyon Country, Green River, and West Desert Districts at its March 26, 2019 quarterly...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Democratic leaders on health care committees in the House and Senate today called on the Trump Administration to cease their continued attacks on affordable, comprehensive health care for Americans, following a proposed change to Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act that would further open the door to junk insurance plans and undermine health care for people with pre-existing conditions.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Democratic leaders on health care committees in the House and Senate today called on the Trump Administration to cease their continued attacks on affordable, comprehensive health care for Americans, following a proposed change to Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act that would further open the door to junk insurance plans and undermine health care for people with pre-existing conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Defendants Charged with Setting Fire to Victim’s Car to Induce Protection Payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Saswaen Waukechon (age: 38), of Keshena, was sentenced on November 8, 2018 to 36 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release after a conviction for Involuntary Manslaughter on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The sentence was the result of a June 28, 2018, guilty plea before Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Democratic leaders on health care committees in the House and Senate today called on the Trump Administration to cease their continued attacks on affordable, comprehensive health care for Americans, following a proposed change to Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act that would further open the door to junk insurance plans and undermine health care for people with pre-existing conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: SENTENCING - Eddie Galindo-Mendez, 44. On Nov. 9, Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez was sentenced to just under 5 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to bank robbery. He admits that he robbed Lubbock’s Happy State Bank in November 2017. Dressed in a large coat, gloves, hat, and sunglasses, Mr. Galindo...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 15, 2018, Christopher Scott Burchett, 36, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 188 months in federal prison. Burchett was convicted for his role in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and a conspiracy to commit money laundering in east Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on Nov. 15, 2018, United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Lafi Jafari, age 74, of Omaha, Nebraska, to a term of one year probation and a fine of $20,000 following his felony conviction for making a false statement to federal investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - A California man who admitted being part of an organization that brought multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine to the Billings area and Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced on Thursday to eight years in prison and five years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 39-year-old man, from Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 16 years and eight months in prison on a charge stemming from years of sexual abuse against his stepdaughter, beginning when she was only 10 years old, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today made the following statement after the Trump Administration announced a decision on how to regulate cell-cultured food products derived from livestock and poultry.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: HELENA-- Deer Lodge resident Rex Thomas Kendall, who admitted to possessing child pornography, was sentenced on Thursday to 35 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that United States District Court Judge James C. Dever III sentenced RODNEY TROY WILLIAMS, 50, of Bolivia, North Carolina, to 204 months in prison, followed by 60 months of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today dedicated the new Atlanta Flight Operations Facility at Cobb County International Airport in Kennesaw, GA. The new facility will enable the Agency to continue providing outstanding support of the National Airspace System.
