News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded several grants to state and local law enforcement agencies in the Middle District of Louisiana. Recipients of those grants include but are not limited to the Louisiana Department of Justice, Louisiana...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment for the Animas Water Quality and Resilience Improvement Project. The proposed project would implement riparian and streambank restoration activities at three sites identified...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former senior vice president of a national demolition company today admitted accepting $341,052 from the chief executive officer and from the president of a scrap metal company to steer business to them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: MENASHA, WI - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Wisconsin in Green Bay has awarded a machine operator $100,000 in back wages and compensatory damages after his employer Dura-Fibre LLC - based in Menasha, Wisconsin - terminated him for reporting injuries he and a co-worker sustained.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited McAllen Produce LLC and Charles Jeffrey Edwards, Weslaco, Texas, for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nick Hanna and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Paul D. Delacourt today announced a series of child exploitation cases involving the victimization of minors through crimes that include the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Taylor, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to retaliate against a witness, and retaliating against a witness, was sentenced to serve 48 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAVON MOORNING, 39, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin and crack cocaine. MOORNING also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal convictiion.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed the third and final component of Tax Reform 2.0, the Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released the preliminary environmental assessment for the Sutey Ranch property for a 30-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was arrested today for distributing fentanyl out of an apartment in Chelsea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: This Week Marks the One-Year Anniversary of the Revitalized PSN Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Madison County man has been sentenced to over eight years in federal prison for robbing a local business with a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- 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. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ronald Siebert, 36, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson, to a mandatory minimum 15 years in federal prison, for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon. Siebert pleaded guilty to this charge on July 31, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office is coordinating with the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District and other partners to conduct mechanical vegetation treatments on about 1,700 acres of the west slope of Barrett Ridge in southeast Carbon County, near Bennett...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced today a pre-suit settlement under the False Claims Act for fraudulently submitted claims payable with federal Blight Elimination Program funds for demolition work not performed properly.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Nicollas Troy Johnson, 25, formerly of Harwood, North Dakota, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 7 years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for coercion and enticement of a minor. In addition to his prison sentence, Johnson will be required to register as a sex offender and serve 60 months on supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and organizations representing many of Ohio’s craft brewers have established a two-year alliance to help improve workplace safety in the industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - 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. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective...
