News from September 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: . The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining how recent achievements in tax and regulatory reform have impacted the U.S. manufacturing sector. #SubDCCP members heard firsthand from manufacturers about how advanced...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Sierra Front Field Office, announces the October 8, 2018 seasonal closing of the BLM campground adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, California. Indian Creek Campground will close at 1 p.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s bill to name a Missouri post office in honor of Arla Harrell-a Missouri World War II veteran intentionally exposed to mustard gas by the U.S. military-was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today. McCaskill serves as the top-ranking Democrat on the Committee, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - Two Michigan companies were recently recognized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) employment compliance program called IMAGE. More than 60 companies attended a related daylong informational open house Tuesday discussing the agency program.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Crews last week successfully completed safe demolition of the 10,000-square-foot vitrification plant once used to solidify thousands of gallons of radioactive waste at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP). The building removal is EM’s largest and most complex environmental cleanup achievement at the West Valley site to date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Following a one-week jury trial, on Sept. 21, 2018, Joudanorve Lafleur, of Miami, Florida, was convicted of armed bank robbery, and brandishing and discharging a firearm in furtherance of the armed robbery.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Genocide Against the Burmese Rohingya.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicholas Reynolds, 34 of Bangor, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to six months in prison and three years of supervised release, with six months of home confinement, for making and distributing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 25, 2018, Sherry Ann Allen, 49, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 51 months in federal prison, as a result of her June 2018 plea of guilty to theft by a credit union officer or employee and tax evasion. Upon her release from prison, Allen will be supervised by U.S. Probation for three years. She was also ordered to pay a total of $1,237,547.04 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: On Sept. 25, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hosts the national “If You See Something, Say Something®” Awareness Day. The “If You See Something, Say Something®” campaign is calling on citizens and national public and private-sector partners to participate in activities related to the campaign,including: * Learning what suspicious activity is, the common indicators of suspicious activity, and how to report suspicious activity.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2018 – North Carolina residents recovering from Hurricane Florence could be eligible for disaster food benefits through the availability of USDA’s Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) announced today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Sessions today issued the following statement of support for legislation to counter threats from unmanned aircraft systems: “From the Wright Brothers to John Glenn to today, Americans have been at the leading edge of aeronautics and made breakthroughs that have changed our world for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: David Prejean, a former Sergeant in the K-9 Unit of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), was sentenced yesterday to serve 30 months in prison and one year supervised release on his guilty plea to violating the civil rights of a detainee, announced John Gore, the Acting Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced the rollout of an updated United States Attorneys’ Manual, now titled the Justice Manual. It is the first comprehensive review and overhaul of the Manual in more than 20 years. The Department-wide effort involved the dedicated work of over 200 Department of Justice employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland, and a naturalized U.S. citizen originally of Vietnam, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of classified national defense information. According to court documents, Pho removed massive troves of highly classified national defense information without authorization and kept it at his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: The former chief financial officer of Bankrate Inc., a publicly traded financial services and marketing company formerly headquartered in North Palm Beach, Florida, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for orchestrating an accounting and securities fraud scheme that caused more than $25 million in shareholder losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Health Management Associates, LLC (HMA), formerly a U.S. hospital chain headquartered in Naples, Florida, will pay over $260 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme to defraud the United States. The government alleged that HMA knowingly billed government health care ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Ji Chaoqun, 27, a Chinese citizen residing in Chicago, was arrested in Chicago today for allegedly acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina convicted a Charlotte man today of conspiracy to defraud the government, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray for the Western District of North Carolina.
