News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Joseph Logan Brooks, age 29, formerly of Holly Hill, Matthew Tyler Fischer, age 25, of Holly Hill, and Matthew Harrison Kail, age 30, of Pomona Park, Florida, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Smuggle Wildlife, a violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Mohammed “Kofi" Kwaning, age 37, of Laurel, Maryland late on September 4, 2018, to 121 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, as well as bank and wire fraud...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service would like to invite the community to a special exhibit opening at the Calumet Visitor Center this Friday, September 7, 2018 at 6:00 pm. “My Neighborhood, My Heritage" features the photographs of area youth who learned about, and then documented, six local towns this past summer.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is nearing the successful completion of its final test leading up to the 2020 Census. The 2018 Census Test in Providence County, R.I., was the last operational field test prior to the once-a-decade population count taking place in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States Chief District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced XAVIER RAMONE JUDD, 32, of Henderson to 36 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered two loaded firearms this morning at the security screening checkpoint at Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ), bringing the total so far for this calendar year to 28. This exceeds last year’s total of 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Grant Ridder pleaded guilty today to production, distribution, and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and United States Secret Service Acting Special Agent in Charge John Roberts. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: As a result of late summer rains and slightly cooler temperatures, on September 5, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, and State of Utah will lift fire restriction orders in the following areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for robbing a bank in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at knifepoint in January 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: As a result of late summer rains and slightly cooler temperatures, on September 5, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, and State of Utah will lift fire restriction orders in the following areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Timothy G. Zani, 39, of Berwick, Maine was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Matthew Aichroth was sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to 18 years’ imprisonment for conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine and committing an arson in furtherance of that conspiracy. The Court also ordered Aichroth to forfeit approximately $3.4 million as proceeds of the cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Aichroth pleaded guilty to the charges in July 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders will hold a press conference open to credentialed members of the media on Thursday, September 6, 2018 to call on the Senate to pass self-driving car legislation. The press conference marks one year since the House approved the bipartisan SELF DRIVE Act by voice vote, the first-of-its-kind federal framework for the safe and innovative development and deployment of self-driving cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Henry Bastardo, age 60, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment and 4 years supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine. The charge arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Battle Mountain - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has issued a signed Record of Decision (ROD) for the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) approving the proposed expansion of the existing Phoenix Mine, an open-pit gold and copper operation located roughly 12 miles southwest...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee hearing on “Twitter: Transparency and Accountability:"
By USDA Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Perspectives on U.S. Agricultural Trade."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Aug. 29, 2018, Graham Mitchell Clark, a/k/a “Molly Poppins," pleaded guilty before the Honorable Susan Lee, U.S. Magistrate Judge, to possessing with the intent to distribute MDMA and LSD at the Bonnaroo Music Festival (Bonnaroo), in Manchester, Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), held a hearing reviewing five bipartisan bills to improve health care. WHY: “While these bills cover different topics within health care, there is one common thread that connects them. All of the bills and discussion...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders will hold a press conference open to credentialed members of the media on Thursday, September 6, 2018 to call on the Senate to pass self-driving car legislation. The press conference marks one year since the House approved the bipartisan SELF DRIVE Act by voice vote, the first-of-its-kind federal framework for the safe and innovative development and deployment of self-driving cars.
