News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Files included the sexual abuse of a child approximately 6-to-8-years-old.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, AK - The National Park Service dedicated the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area yesterday in a ceremony that celebrated Governor Hammond’s contributions to Alaska and the Hammond family’s legacy at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Former First Lady of Alaska, Bella Hammond, her daughter...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - A new issue of Yellowstone Science magazine invites readers to celebrate the achievements of recent archeological research in Yellowstone and traces the history of the park’s archeology program.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health markup on H.R. 3325; H.R. 3891; H.R. 5306; “Gag Clause" legislation; Discussion Draft, Strengthening the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act of 2018; and Discussion Draft, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission with access to certain drug rebate information...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging 20 individuals and entities for their alleged involvement in a transnational criminal organization that victimized over 2,000 people in the United States through a fraudulent India-based call-center scheme, resulting in over $5.5 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that LOUIS GOLDBERG, 71, of New Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Oscar Ferrer-Rivera pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Marshal D. Morgan to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, twelve counts of mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Waddah Siedahmed, 23, of South Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit bank robbery.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced six bipartisan bills to improve health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Four state-owned Chinese companies were arraigned on a Third Superseding Indictment charging each of the companies and two of their officers with conspiring to commit economic espionage and related crimes, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, as part of a coordinated law enforcement takedown codenamed Operation Tin Panda, that to date has resulted in 39 defendants convicted on federal firearms and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Avtandil Khurtsidze Previously Convicted at Trial of Racketeering Conspiracy and Fraud in Connection with his Role as an Enforcer for the Shulaya Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Sierra Madre man who until earlier this year served as a lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department has agreed to plead guilty to two federal felony offenses related to the illegal sale of more than 100 firearms over the course of three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOSEPH MALDONADO-PASSAGE, also known as Joseph Allen Maldonado, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and "Joe Exotic," 55, formerly of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has been indicted on two counts of hiring a person to commit murder.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Participants announced for Tower of Voices Dedication and 17th Annual Observance.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, at 9:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Better Data and Better Outcomes: Reducing Maternal Mortality in the U.S."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MAHIR SALIM (a/k/a MAHER SALEM, MIKE SALEM), age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today by a federal grand jury in a one-count Indictment with trafficking in counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for engaging in a fraud scheme that resulted in an attempted loss of approximately $182,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The second of two men charged with cutting their way through a roof into a Target department store in Smithfield, R.I., prying open an ATM inside the store and stealing more than $14,000, and cutting through a wall into a CVS Pharmacy located inside the store and stealing a controlled substance pleaded guilty today in federal court in Providence.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Environmental Assessment to disclose potential environmental effects and solicit public comment associated with the Bogus Creek Flow Meter Installation Project, located in Siskiyou County, California.
