News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 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 Indictment of CARLOS BATISTA JR., charging him with strangling and suffocating the woman he was dating.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev.-The Bureau of Land Management announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on the three Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) in Nevada. Nominations are due Oct. 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAURICE WEARING, 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 140 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and his role in an attempt to destroy the body of a victim of a related murder with a homemade pipe bomb on July 4, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in support of a resolution to overturn President Trump’s “junk plans" rule. The rule, which went into effect last week, gives insurance...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: LOWELL, MA- This fall, Lowell National Historical Park is launching Lowell Talks, a new series of community conversations on a wide range of historical and contemporary topics. The series will connect historical perspectives and unique insights from Lowell’s history with today’s political and social issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hutchinson man was sentenced today to 60 days in federal prison for stealing $145,000 from a company where he worked, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three Florida residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on charges of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, possessing and uttering counterfeit securities, and possession of stolen mail, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: King Salmon, AK - In the tournament to be the tubbiest on the tundra, bear 409 Beadnose is the undisputed heavyweight champion for 2018. Online fans voted bear 409 “Fattest Bear" in the culmination of Fat Bear Week, a March-Madness style competition on the national park’s social media.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Anton Woodson, age 34, of East Stroudsburg, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 63 months in prison for his role in a Monroe County-based heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Tangipahoa Parish man was sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Assigns Additional Federal Prosecutors in Support of Project Safe Neighborhoods Effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The co-owners and chief operating officer of one of the largest Iraqi dinar exchangers in the United States were convicted by a federal jury following a five-week trial. Tyson Rhame, James Shaw, and Frank Bell were each convicted of mail and wire fraud conspiracy, as well as multiple counts of mail and wire fraud. Rhame and Bell were also convicted of making false statements to federal law enforcement agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Michael Spencer pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to two counts of production of child pornography, conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography, distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and felony contempt of court, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced actions it is taking to assist Americans in states affected by Hurricane Michael.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is publishing an environmental assessment for the shipping and field testing of a new, unlicensed swine influenza vaccine. Public comments about the potential environmental affects will be accepted for 30 days. Read more at
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Brian Kirk Marshall, 49, of Kansas, Oklahoma, made an initial appearance in United States District Court Tuesday, in Arkansas, on a Complaint charging Marshall with assaulting a federal officer on Oct. 1, 2018, in Delaware County. At the time of the alleged incident, the FBI was executing both an...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Senate passed, S. 3021 , America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, through a bipartisan vote of 99-1. The bill, which passed the House of Representatives by voice vote in September, now heads to the president’s desk.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Five residents of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, have been charged in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh with violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
