News from October 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Mapping Interface Provides Neighborhood-Level Information on Children’s Outcomes.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Kemmerer, WY - Fossil Butte National Monument will be celebrating National Fossil Day on Saturday, October 13th, 2018. This annual event is held across the nation to highlight the scientific and educational value of paleontology and the importance of preserving fossils for future generations.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Co-Founder and CMO also Sentenced to Prison.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - Ninety-six hatchlings of the world’s most endangered sea turtle crawled out to sea this week on West Beach on the Rockaway Peninsula located within the Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway), National Park Service (NPS).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: More Than 45 Agencies and Volunteer Search and Rescue Groups Participating.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that illegally exported sensitive space communications technology to China was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding, was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC, doing business as DaVita Medical Holdings LLC, has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability for providing inaccurate information that caused Medicare Advantage Plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Justice Department announced today. DaVita is headquartered in El Segundo.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Dr. Phyllis Messenger to Speak at Pipestone National Monument.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: GREENBELT, Maryland - Roy David Evans, Jr., age 34, of Essex, Maryland, was sentenced today to 17 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography, possession of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore and the Montgomery County Police Department.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Those Charged Include Gang Members from the “Rollin 30s" Set of the Crips.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - James R. Stewart, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Deion J. Jones, of Wheeling, West Virginia, were sentenced today to a combined 78 months for drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: On Sunday, Oct. 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Tumacácori will celebrate the harvest season during the first annual Mission Bake-Off! Community members are invited to submit their finest recipe in one of three categories inspired by the heritage fruit trees of the mission orchard - pomegranate...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Carl L. Lawson (46, Jacksonville) to 16 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for violating the conditions of supervised release that Lawson was serving in connection with a prior federal...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after President Trump announced the United States, Canada, and Mexico have reached an agreement on the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexander Seegar, 29, of Darien Center, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jason Bonds, 43, of Ascutney, Vermont, was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2018, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 45 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Bonds to serve a five (5) year term of supervised release, and to pay a $100 special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that twenty previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Sept. 26, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Luzerne, Monroe and York.