News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Will Award Up to $246 Million in Grants to Improve Public Safety in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and eight House Democratic colleagues, including Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam), sent a letter today to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen urging them to crack...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to subpoena the State Department for documents it has refused to produce about Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook and significant acts of retaliation against career State Department employees when he served as Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Policy Planning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - United States Attorney Trent Shores 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, including...
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: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - James Guccione, 51, of St. Louis County pleaded guilty to wire fraud this afternoon before Chief Judge Rodney Sippel in St. Louis.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Raleigh, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 28 National Park Service employees from 14 parks and 11 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public is reminded that closed parks are closed to all use, including motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, due to safety concerns during stabilization operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Nora L. Steele, the former operations director of a Rock Island, Ill., program that provided summer and after-school meals to at-risk children today waived indictment and plead guilty to defrauding the government of approximately $515,617, and filing a false tax return. Steele, 66...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Pretended to be a Mobster in a $4 Million Extortion Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy with included committing armed carjackings around Ohio City, Tremont and Shaker Square and using one of the vehicles to steal firearms from a gun store in Streetsboro.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Steven Ray Garner, age 44, of Gaffney, was sentenced in federal court to 60 months imprisonment with 3 years of supervised release to follow. Garner previously pled guilty to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Junction City contractor was indicted Wednesday on charges of selling more than $7,000 worth of methamphetamine to undercover investigators, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management will waive amenity-related fees at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for National Public Lands Day on September 22. Other fees, such as camping and group day use, will remain in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Victor Kingsley, a Brooklyn resident, adding a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction based on a fully assembled explosive device that police found in his apartment when he was arrested in February 2018. The new indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, joined the U.S. 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. Four tribes within the Western District of Wisconsin have received grants totaling more than $3.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant allegedly had hidden cameras in his home and recorded hours of video footage depicting his sexual abuse of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhoods effort continues multi-agency collaboration to tackle guns, drug, and gangs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Russell Todd Mathis, age 45, of Warner Robins, Georgia, was sentenced, on Sept. 19, 2018, to life in prison for his role in a methamphetamine and marijuana distribution conspiracy. Mr. Mathis received...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Suzanne Silva with embezzling over $465,000 during her seven-year tenure as Chief Operating Officer of Winthrop University Hospital Employees Federal Credit Union located in Mineola, New York (hereinafter Winthrop). Silva was arrested today, and her initial appearance is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay.
