News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Democrats urged their Republican committee colleagues to join them in sending a notice to Chairman Goodlatte to force consideration of H.R. 5476, the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, legislation to protect the Special Counsel investigation. House Judiciary ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $1.49 million contract to Unico Mechanical of Benicia, California, for rehabilitation of Navajo Dam gates and valves. Navajo Dam is located on the San Juan River approximately 40 miles east of Farmington, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on Sept. 13, 2018, Tyson Wells, Dara Bessette, Sierra Lacoste, Laci Baker, and Megan West, all of St. Albans, were arrested and charged with knowingly providing false information to firearms dealers in connection ...
By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following committee event has been postponed...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -. Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop and Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva announced and passed a deal on the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), offered and adopted in Committee as an amendment to H.R. 502.The Committee also passed H.R. 6771, the Domestic...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, following a three day trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Clyde Miller on charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Tuscarora Field Office, Bureau of Land Management Elko District, has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) DOI-BLM-NV-E020-2018-0004-EA titled “North 5th Street Tank and Water Line Right-of-Way" to analyze the impacts of authorizing the City of Elko’s (City) proposed utility Right-Of-Way project in the northwest part of Elko, Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The operators of a gold mine located just outside Death Valley National Park’s western border have proposed modifications to their plan of operations. Most of the proposed changes relate to mining activities on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), but the plan also includes modifications to the mine’s piping of water from Sourdough Spring within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Sept. 13, 2018, the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Judge, sentenced Roger Dale Williams, 52, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, to serve 63 months in prison for conducting a scheme to defraud investors and obstructing the administration of federal tax laws. Williams was also ordered to pay $1,373,361.96 in restitution to victims that lost money as a result of the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - William Dukes, Jr., a former sergeant with the Providence, Kentucky, Police Department, was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison abd three years' supervised release for willfully depriving a Kentucky citizen of his constitutional rights under color of law, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man with a prior conviction for robbery was indicted for using a firearm to rob a bank and steal a car this summer, as well for escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for engaging in numerous paid sexual acts with underage girls, along with restitution of approximately $240,000 to be paid into a trust fund for the victims and a $100,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write today in strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") proposal to rescind rules designed to protect and ensure students enrolled in career training programs obtain “gainful employment." Given that the Department delayed implementing these critical...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bills carry out some of Congress’ most important Constitutional responsibilities, and I am pleased that we have made so much progress on these bills. The conference agreement will provide ample resources for our armed services, robust funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Denna Chambers, aka Denna Rice, 36, of Sacramento, formerly of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to three years and one month in prison for a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee hearing on U.S. sanctions policy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Raymond J. Brenneis, 59, of Rumford, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to Social Security fraud and theft of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Michael Keith Feighner, 64, of Rudyard, Michigan, was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for attempted travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney ordered Feighner to serve eight years of supervised release upon the completion of his sentence. He will also be required to register as a sexual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for making false statements on her naturalization application.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Kevin Alford, age 41, of Greenville, Georgia, was sentenced to 144 months in Federal prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine before the U.S. District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams in Albany, Georgia on Sept. 13, 2018.
