News from July 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Dolores, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hosting an open house Aug. 1 in Hesperus to discuss the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluates GCC Energy, LLC’s (GCCE) proposed Lease-by-Application (LBA) for the King II Coal Mine, approximately 15 miles west of Durango, Colorado. The EA, which is being jointly prepared with the Office of Surface Mining and Enforcement (OSMRE), was released for public review on July 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DANIEL L. KLUENDER, 41, to a year and a day in prison and ordered to pay $880,143.01, for illegally selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in property that was pledged as collateral for a USDA-backed farm loan. KLUENDER, who pleaded guilty on March 7, 2019, was sentenced yesterday before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that N & F Logistics, Inc., a shipping and trucking business located in Harahan, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to a one-count bill of information charging it with unlawful employment of an alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. '' 1324a (a)(1)(A) and (f)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RODNEY JAMES, age 47, a resident of Phoenix City, Alabama, pled guilty to a one-count indictment for interference with a flight crew, in violation of Title 49, United States Code, Section 46504.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luis D. Marcano-Agosto, 34, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: A Warren man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading an arson conspiracy in which two homes he owned were intentionally set on fire so he could collect insurance money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Brian Ray Dunlap (67, St. Augustine) has pleaded guilty to attempting to entice two young children to engage in illegal sexual activity. Dunlap faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the proposed Monument Management Plans (MMPs) and final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Indian Creek and Shash Jáa units of the Bears Ears National Monument. The BLM published the notice of availability...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Omar Afzali, 29, of Woodbridge, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman in July 2016, and then aiding his cousin in doing the same thing, at a hotel in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Complaint seeks to enforce federal penalties for alleged violations of Bank Secrecy Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Eastern Kentucky counties have agreed to pay a total of $130,393 to the United States, resolving assertions that the submission of their claims to Medicare for non-emergency ambulance transports that did not meet Medicare’s reimbursement criteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant Was on Supervision for a Prior Drug Trafficking Conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Travel back in time to the 1870’s and join a group of travelling pioneers camping under the stars at Pipe Spring for the night. Guests will check in at the visitor center front desk at 5:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and wait at the back patio area of the visitor center to receive instructions and set...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Pittsfield man was sentenced in federal court in Springfield yesterday for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced DOMINIQUE WILLIAMS, 31, of Henderson to 72 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, AL - On Thursday, July 25, 2019, James Welburn, 72, a resident of Columbus, Georgia and the owner of American Truck Driving Academy, located in Lee County, Alabama, was arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant Persisted with Drug Distribution Activities Even After Two Traffic Stops with Drug Seizures.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael McCaul, Ranking Member of the Committee, this week introduced legislation supporting the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Amarillo, Texas has indicted a former Mexican municipal police officer for fentanyl trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House Democrats’ trade working group met with U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert E. Lighthizer...
