News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Blake Kantor, who formerly operated a binary options company known as Blue Bit Banc and Blue Bit Analytics (“BBB"), was sentenced by United States District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein to 86 months’ imprisonment for operating a scheme to defraud BBB investors...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is offering a long-term lease opportunity for three golf courses in Washington, D.C. We’re looking for an operator who’s committed to providing affordable and easy-to-access golfing, to improving facilities and courses and to preserving the unique histories and landscapes of each of these courses.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Whitney Fire - Fire at 102 acres after evening rains slow spread on Sunday.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - On Monday, July 1, a man who fled Rwanda near the end of the 1994 genocide was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for immigration fraud and perjury in connection with his application for benefits in the United States, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC WILLIAMS, 38, of Danbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of providing contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - Christine Ruth Turner, 43, and her husband, Joshua A. Turner, 40, both of Coeur d’Alene, were sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on June 26, 2019. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Christine Turner to 71 months in prison and Joshua Turner to 60 months in prison. Judge Lodge also ordered that each serve five years of supervised release after serving their prison sentences.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA News Release. July 1, 2019. Release No.: 2019-23. Contacts (alphabetical by agency). Bureau of Land Management - Kirsten Cannon - (702) 515-5057. Clark County Fire Department - Larry Haydu - (702) 455-7757. Mt. Charleston...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Carter Roberts, the President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), requesting documents on WWF’s procedures, role in, and knowledge of alleged human rights abuses revealed by Buzzfeed News in March.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: ICYMI: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Working for Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Tavaras Warren, 40, of Flint, Michigan, was sentenced on June 27, 2019 to a total of 200 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Matthew F. Leitman for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, that is, a drug robbery, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY- As boating season gets underway in Grand Teton National Park, all local residents and visitors are reminded to operate boats safely and with regard to others. Park staff will participate in Operation Dry Water, a nationwide awareness effort to promote boating safety, this weekend, July 6 and 7.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding that the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) should do more to ensure industry pays the royalties it owes the public from the extraction of public oil and gas resources.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - The Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern Interior Field Office today issued a Fire Prevention Order temporarily prohibiting open fires (except at established campgrounds), fireworks, exploding targets and explosives on the public lands it manages in east-central Alaska. The order goes into effect tonight at midnight and will last until fire conditions improve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DANIEL CABRERA-VERGARA, JR., a/k/a “Junior," age 35, and LARANZA THOMAS, a/k/a “Dude," age 28, residents of Houma, Louisiana, were charged May 16, 2019, in a three-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Arrested moments after he attempted to rundown a detective to avoid arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Taylor Fertig, 24, of Kennewick, Wash., was sentenced on June 26, 2019, after having pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. Senior United States District Judge Edward Shea imposed a 10-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a five-year term of court supervision after release from federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Portland, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites members of the public who are interested in learning about a proposal to construct a system of fuel breaks to enhance the ability of wildland firefighters to control rangeland wildfires.
