News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Cyclists and pathway users in the southern area of Grand Teton National Park are advised that a pathway closure between the southern and northern portions of the Gros Ventre Roundabout will occur beginning tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 14, for approximately ten days. During this pathway closure, experienced pathway users may travel along the highway on the road shoulder and through the partial roundabout.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Dale Ritter, 53, of St. Croix, was sentenced on Sept. 13, 2018, in District Count on one federal count of Possession of a Firearm with Obliterated Serial Number, and one local count of Illegal Use of Utility Equipment, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee markup of H.R. 6754, the CIRCUIT Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Brady. Unfortunately, today our country is in the midst of a retirement crisis. Nearly half of American private sector employees - roughly 55 million - work for an employer that does not offer a retirement plan. Most of these workers are employed by small businesses, the fastest growing segment of the economy.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited pallet manufacturer Buckeye Diamond Logistics Inc. - which operates as BDL Supply - for lockout/tagout hazards after an employee suffered an amputation at the Columbus-based company. OSHA proposed penalties of $191,794 for two repeated and four serious violations.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this three-bill minibus, which delivers important victories for the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: A Mexican national was indicted for having nearly half a kilogram of deadly opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that two Texas men pleaded guilty to trafficking more than 10 kilograms of fentanyl through Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was convicted of a federal gun crime following jury trial before Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Michael Matthew Phillips, age 31, was convicted of possessing a firearm by a prohibited person.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy released the following statement after the Committee held a classified briefing on election security and foreign influence operations ahead of the midterm elections.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA). Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. Hearing on “The State of Positive Train Control in the United States". Sept. 13, 2018. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Our hearing today focuses on the implementation of Positive Train Control in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jonathan Bobadilla-Soto, 26, of Adelanto, California, was charged in a federal criminal complaint regarding a traffic stop which resulted in the seizure of approximately 34 pounds of ICE (crystal methamphetamine).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Luis Jimenez Cortez, a/k/a Fernando Castillo, 45, a native of Mexico living in Chicago, Illinois, who was convicted of use of an entry document obtained by fraud and making false statements to a Federal official, was sentenced to serve four months in prison and three years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Francis “Cadillac" Salemme, a former boss of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), and former NELCN associate Paul Weadick were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with the 1993 murder of Steven A. DiSarro.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s tweet this morning attempting to rewrite history denying the death of 2,975 in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria under his watch...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office is providing a story map explaining how the Department of the Interior’s Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team works to assess the damage on BLM and trust lands from the Ranch and River fires that formed the Mendocino Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Trejo, 54, of El Paso, Texas, pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Demitri Kardeem Scott, 25, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
