News from August 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Kennewick Drug Dealer Sentenced To 15 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: For Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement on the announced U.S. Forest Service final rule regarding Obama-era sage grouse amendments. Previous actions taken by the Obama administration stifled state and local conservation efforts of the sage grouse and locked up 165 million acres of land in 11 different states.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), top Democrat on the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, led six EPW Democratic senators in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency ...

By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Democratic Health leaders sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today seeking documents and raising a series of questions regarding the Trump Administration’s refusal of care rule, which drastically expands the types of health care providers that can...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FBI New York Art Crime Team Returns Vases Stolen During Nazi Rule in Germany.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Reaches $3 Million Settlement with Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation for Violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that GILES CASSE (“CASSE"), age 49, was charged on July 25, 2019 by a Grand Jury sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana in a four-count indictment with violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, Bank Fraud and Title 18, United States Code, Section 1014, False Statements to obtain a government insured loan.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The former Sheriff of Philadelphia John Green, 72, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to serve five years in prison followed by one year of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $76,581 by U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Blair Strouse, 29, of Warminster, PA, was sentenced today to 30 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Petrese Tucker for charges related to cyberstalking his estranged wife.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man pleaded guilty today to his role in the prostitution of a child at hotels across Virginia Beach and Norfolk.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Tupelo, Miss. - A total of eight individuals are behind bars today following their arrest by federal, state and local law enforcement officers on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in North East Mississippi. The FBI together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tupelo Police Department announced that the arrests were made on Tuesday and Wednesday following an extensive multi-year, multi-agency investigation.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., ordered Terry Demetri Tsethlikai, 26, a member of Zuni Pueblo who resides in Black Rock, N.M., detained pending trial on an indictment charging him with manslaughter and assault charges. Tsethlikai previously entered a not guilty plea to the three-count indictment on July 24, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Democratic Health leaders sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today seeking documents and raising a series of questions regarding the Trump Administration’s refusal of care rule, which drastically expands the types of health care providers that can...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., ordered Terry Demetri Tsethlikai, 26, a member of Zuni Pueblo who resides in Black Rock, N.M., detained pending trial on an indictment charging him with manslaughter and assault charges. Tsethlikai previously entered a not guilty plea to the three-count indictment on July 24, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Pavement preservation continues in Grand Teton National Park throughout the weekend. On Friday, Aug. 2, road work will take place on U.S. Highway 89 between Pacific Creek Road and the Moran Junction Entrance Station. There will be flaggers stationed throughout the work zone to direct traffic...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Levi Wallace, age 32, from Long Grove, Iowa, has been charged with one count of importation of an analogue controlled substance, one count of use of the United States mail to facilitate a drug crime, and one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing 4- Methymethcathinone (commonly called mephedrone or 4-MMC), an analogue of methcathinone, a Schedule I controlled substance..
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Joshua Banks, age 32, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
Release: Department of Energy Lapse of Appropriations Plan