News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Greenbrier West High School Counselor Changed Daughter’s Grades to Obtain Financial Scholarships.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - EM's next quarterly public forum to discuss upcoming business opportunities in the legacy nuclear cleanup program is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Foreign National Sentenced to Prison for His Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: PAGE, Arizona - The well pump at Dangling Rope Marina in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been repaired. All facilities are fully functioning and operating at normal business hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A suspended Massachusetts State Police Trooper has agreed to plead guilty today in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: FBI Oklahoma City Investigating Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former chiropractor with offices in Lakewood, New Jersey, today admitted evading income taxes totaling more than half a million dollars from 2012 through 2015 and failing to report a Russian bank account, to which he wired more than $1.5 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal court has issued an order that permanently bars a tax return preparer who operated offices in Pasadena - as well as other cities in California, Colorado and Kansas - from preparing federal income tax returns, United States Attorney Nick Hanna announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against two McNairy county men for being felons in possession of firearms. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted conspiring to distribute thousands of pills containing heroin in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Join Jeanie Powell and learn about medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, and how they were discovered and used in traditional medicine practices. Over generations, the people living in the high valleys and plains of New Mexico had to survive and sustain themsleves off the land. For their health, the people would turn to the traditional knowledge of the medicinal properties of certain plants. Discover the historic and contemporary use of herbs in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Gangster Disciples gang member was sentenced today to 360 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for participating in a racketeering conspiracy and for using, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that six (6) individuals were prosecuted in August by his office for illegal reentry into the country after having been deported and removed. All defendants convicted of Illegal Reentry are subject to deportation proceedings following their sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office joined the Department of Justice today in announcing more than $113 million in grant awards to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women, and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The following tribes in the Western District of Oklahoma have been awarded these amounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Gangster Disciples gang member was sentenced today to 360 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for participating in a racketeering conspiracy and for using, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (Kickapoo) will receive a $390,599 federal grant to address violent crime against Indian women. U.S. Attorney John F. Bash joined the Department of Justice today in announcing the award to the Kickapoo as part of more than $13 million in grants being awarded to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women, and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston Police Officer was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston with illegally purchasing two firearms on behalf of acquaintances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Larry Harper, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 135 months incarceration for conspiring with others to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statements today on data showing that Department of Education has approved less than one-third of borrower defense claims and over 105,000 students are still waiting for relief.
