News from November 2018
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: This morning, Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue Team members received information from park visitors who were in the Longs Peak area on Saturday, November 24. They spoke and hiked with Micah Tice for approximately 20 minutes. They reported that he was wearing a black sweatshirt, black sweatpants...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Laquan Hassan Croswell, age 25, of Paterson, New Jersey, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 30 months’ imprisonment on charges related to straw purchase of firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced Wayne R. Monteith has been appointed to the position of Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Monteith’s appointment is effective Jan. 20, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump administration released new information about state health care waivers that would promote junk plans and reduce access to comprehensive health insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today, in a 103-count superseding indictment, charged a Fultondale doctor with conspiracy to prescribe controlled substances and participating in a healthcare fraud conspiracy with a Demopolis pharmacist and a Tuscaloosa sales representative, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ignacio Sandoval-Acosta, 47, a Mexican citizen currently serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and Scott Terrill Hipp, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, were sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Jamel Clay, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced on Thursday, by United States District Judge David Bunning, to eight years in federal prison, for possession with the intent to distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that last evening, in federal court, RICARDO JEROME BENNETT, SR., 47, of Wilmington, North Carolina was found guilty of two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography containing minors under the age of 12.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a final Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment on the East Side Lateral Piping Project, Phase 9 in Delta and Montrose Counties, Colorado. The project will replace approximately 20.4 miles of open irrigation ditch with buried pipe. The purpose of the project is to prevent seepage and reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: St. Lawrence County Paper Mill Discharged Polluted Wastewater Between 2013 and 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A pharmacist licensed by the State of Florida was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for her participation in a scheme involving the payment of approximately $3.4 million in fraudulent claims by TRICARE, Medicare, and private insurance programs for compounded creams that were medically unnecessary, procured through illegal kickbacks, and otherwise not eligible for reimbursement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Loucious Collins, 37, of Jackson, was sentenced Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for being an armed career criminal in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Mississippi. Collins was also required to forfeit the firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that 15 individuals from South Carolina and North Carolina were charged in federal court with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Extortion, and Money Laundering. These individuals are.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write to express our profound concern at the recently released Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General Report.[1] This report found that the largest migrant children facility in the country is not conducting the required checks for staff and does not have a “sufficient" ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Raytown, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms on two separate occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TOM SHIN pled guilty to charges of aiding the preparation of a false tax return and wire fraud. SHIN pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Nov. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Reynaldo Colon, 20, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession of a stolen firearm, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Chief Stewart Steele of the Rio Rancho Police Department (RRPD) announced today that Nathan Corley, 38, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating the federal firearms laws. Corley will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public comment period as part of the process to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Resource Management Plan amendment for the 2015 Buffalo Field Office Approved Resource Management Plan in response to a United States Montana District court opinion and order pertinent to “Western Organization of Resource Councils, et al vs BLM."
