News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: JARED CARRELL (“CARRELL"), age 38, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, was indicted Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 for receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Joey Lamont Brunson, a/k/a “Solo Flex," age 42 of Eutawville, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, was sentenced on all twelve of the charges in his federal indictment by United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump administration released its so-called “public charge" rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH DATELLO pled guilty today before United States District Judge Cathy Seibel to numerous acts of racketeering, including attempting to kill a witness against him. In May 2017, DATELLO and 18 other...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “The State of Social Security’s Information Technology," on Thursday, September 27 at 11:00 AM in room 2020 of the Rayburn House Office Building. At the hearing, Members will discuss the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) information technology (IT), including modernization, management, and acquisitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today the grant awards to Public Safety Partnership member sites that will include $800,000 in funding to Tulsa law enforcement departments and their partners to fight violent crime.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Environmental Assessment for a Natomas Central Mutual Water Company supervisory control and data acquisition (or SCADA) project intended to improve water management and reduce water demand within the Natomas Basin.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting thousands of workers for temporary jobs available nationwide in advance of the 2020 Census.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to purchase up to 6,000 acre-feet of groundwater from Modesto Properties for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, under the authorization of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that three Western Pennsylvania counties will receive new federal funding to combat drug trafficking and reduce the supply of illegal drugs. The counties of Allegheny, Beaver and Washington have been officially designated as a High Intensity...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Tramain R. Anderson, age 28, of Greenwood, was sentenced to 100 months in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, sentenced Anderson and imposed a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Denton Worrell, a/k/a “Lil D," 21, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." The defendant pleaded guilty on May 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, James Carroll, Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced the designation of 10 new areas across Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and West Virginia as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs). This designation...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting October 1. This change happens yearly and is necessary as days become shorter and the sunset is earlier after the end of Daylight Saving Time. The Visitors’ Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Roger Edward Picard, 66, of Garland, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 1½ years in prison and five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender. Picard pled guilty on May 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Henderson, 35, of Winthrop, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to making false statements to a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Crime Statistics. After two consecutive years of increases, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased 0.2 percent in 2017 when compared with 2016 data, according to FBI figures released today. Property crimes dropped 3.0 percent, marking the 15th consecutive year...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Pistol-Whipped Victim, Led Police on a Chase Ending at Construction Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018 was signed into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York stock trader today admitted making bribe payments to a broker at an investment banking firm in exchange for stock allocations, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
