News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Robert S. Khuzami, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced the convictions of JAMES GATTO, a/k/a “Jim," MERL CODE, and CHRISTIAN DAWKINS for conspiring to defraud universities by funneling illicit payments to the families of high-school and college...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park will be closing the Lava Point Road beginning at the park boundary from November 5-7 for road maintenance. The West Rim Road, West Rim Trailhead and the Lava Point area will be inaccessible during this closure. Areas outside of the park typically accessed via the West...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the upcoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Maryland women who were employed as personal care aides were arrested today on separate federal charges. Both are charged with engaging in a scheme in which they allegedly submitted a combined $1.7 million in false claims to the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Kevin McIntyre announced that he would step down as chairman due to ongoing health issues. President Trump has designated Neil Chatterjee to serve as chairman.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a troubling new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today detailing the Trump Administration’s haphazard efforts to reunify families separated at the border due to the so-called “zero tolerance" policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CURTIS DRAUGHN, also known as “Kirk," 63, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: Two Glynn County men have been charged in federal court with selling the deadly synthetic opioid Fentanyl, including a quantity of the drug that killed a Brunswick woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant currently serving state sentence for fentanyl distribution.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), is hosting a free webinar titled “Distributed Energy Technology Trends and Costs" on Wednesday, Oct. 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Opportunity for the Public to Dispose of Unused Prescription Drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. government and anti-counterfeiting organizations from academia and industry gathered today to discuss how social media can be effectively used to protect intellectual property rights and combat the flow of counterfeit goods that threaten the health and safety of American consumers, negatively impact the nation’s economy and fund criminal organizations involved in violent crimes.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, a bipartisan legislative package to combat the opioid crisis, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Documents were unsealed that charge three Ohio men with crimes related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: A man who distributed marijuana and possessed a firearm was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Robert S. Khuzami, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced the convictions of JAMES GATTO, a/k/a “Jim," MERL CODE, and CHRISTIAN DAWKINS for conspiring to defraud universities by funneling illicit payments to the families of high-school and college...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., is National Prescription Drug “Take Back Day." This event will give the public its 16th opportunity in eight years to prevent pill abuse, diversion, and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Robert Loera was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy and for being an accessory after the fact to an attempted murder, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down earlier today by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bruce Aaron Bardesis, age 53, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a troubling new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today detailing the Trump Administration’s haphazard efforts to reunify families separated at the border due to the so-called “zero tolerance" policy.
