News from July 2019
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Since regaining its independence in 2006, Montenegro has adopted a legal framework that encourages privatization, employment, and exports. Implementation, however, lags well behind the legal structure, and the Montenegrin economy continues to depend on a very narrow tax base and a band of three developing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Archie “A.J." Evans, age 42, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for his involvement in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated in Columbia County.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Luxembourg, the only Grand Duchy in the world, is a landlocked country in northwestern Europe surrounded by Belgium, France, and Germany. Despite its small landmass and small population (614,000), Luxembourg is the second-wealthiest country in the world when measured on a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONNELL ROGERS, 26, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to approximately 17 months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, convened a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration's Attack on the ACA: Reversal in Court Case Threatens Health Care for Millions of Americans" to examine the implications of the Trump Administration’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah), U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) and U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) released the following statements on the Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act introduced yesterday. This bipartisan bill aims to improve our federal infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Stephen Bayne Fields, Jr., age 47, of Towson, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography by using multiple social media accounts to send and receive video and still images of children engaging, and being used to engage in, sexually explicit conduct via the Internet.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Do you have what it takes to be a homesteader on a distant world? Find out on Saturday, July 20th at Homestead National Monument of America! From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Homestead National Monument of America’s Education Center discover how homesteaders of the future might learn from those who homesteaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Robert Lyons, of Salem, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine near a playground, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Kaleb Noblett continues tradition of prosecutors working between offices.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission’s regular quarterly meeting originally scheduled.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: The Irish government actively promotes foreign direct investment (FDI) and has had considerable success in attracting U.S. investment, in particular. Currently, there are approximately 700 U.S. subsidiaries in Ireland operating primarily in the following sectors: chemicals, bio-pharmaceuticals and medical devices, computer hardware and software, electronics, and financial services.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park’s July Artist-in-Residence, Chad Farnes, brings his tape-art ingenuity and vision to the park this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Christopher L. Gordon, 35, of Kaktovik, Alaska, has been federally charged for knowingly taking a polar bear in a manner unlawful under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, by shooting and killing the polar bear and leaving the harvestable remains to waste. Gordon has been charged in Fairbanks with one count of wasteful taking of a marine mammal.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., July 10, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reopened the comment period for a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with the importation of fresh mamey sapote fruit (Pouteria sapota [Jacq.] H.E. Moore & ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Six employees of the Kansas City, Missouri, public works department have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a nearly three-year, $58,000 overtime fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga.: A Hephzibah man has admitted owning a stash of drugs and a handgun that led to his arrest on federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Direct Access to FBI CJIS’s National Sex Offender Registry Helps Tribal Governments and Law Enforcement Track and Identify Sex Offenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Erin J. Graham, 37, of Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and transporting individuals across state lines with the intent that they engage in prostitution, announced Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. The sentence was imposed by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Derek Pelker, age 29, of Reading, Pennsylvania was sentenced on July 10, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 533 months’ imprisonment for armed bank robbery. As part of his sentencing, Judge Kane also ordered Pelker to pay restitution in the amount of $318,000.
