News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced Monday to 20 months in federal prison for his role in a telemarketing scheme that defrauded more than 1,000 timeshare owners out of approximately $780,000, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: * On the afternoon of July 22, there was an incident with a bull bison near Observation Point Trail in the Old Faithful Geyser area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: MACON - A former commercial banker for Synovus was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison this morning after he admitted to defrauding the bank and evading taxes on his illegal earnings, said Charles E. Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. John D. Evans, 48, of Columbus...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement on addressing climate change with innovative solutions that help both the environment and economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Shirley Watson, age 43, of Georgetown, was sentenced in federal court for her role in a multi-year scheme to embezzle funds from her employer, two family-owned real estate businesses. United States District Court Judge David C. Norton of Charleston sentenced Watson, who has no prior criminal record, to 18 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: A local nonprofit owner has pleaded guilty to his role in a public corruption scandal, admitting he funneled bribes from real estate developer Ruel Hamilton to former Dallas City Council Member Carolyn Davis, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, before United States District Judge James C. Dever III, WILLIAM JUEL, 51, of Little River, South Carolina entered a guilty plea to obstructing a Coast Guard investigation at sea in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2232 and 2.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) marked a second major transportation milestone this summer after its drivers exceeded 15 million safe miles, equivalent to about 33 roundtrips to the moon, without serious accident or injury.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - For the first time in six years, Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) successfully passed the State Department Authorization Act out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Wednesday the House will consider the bill on the floor. The historic reforms...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar demanding HHS provide the Committee with a legally required report on the agency’s plan to care for unaccompanied children in their custody including children forcibly separated from their families due to the Trump Administration’s so-called zero tolerance policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that John Shannon Simpson, age 44, of Lee County, Florida, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to Wire Fraud. United States District Judge David C. Norton of Charleston sentenced Simpson to four years...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, issued a statement Tuesday following the release of the Administration’s proposed rule to eliminate broad-based categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Sierra Front Field Office will resume the Pine Nut Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horse gather operations near Carson City, Nev. on or about July 29, 2019. Gather operations to reduce overpopulation, which employ the use of helicopters...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with the August 2018 computer intrusion of a Massachusetts company.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz) this morning reiterated that, given the massive protests happening today led by Puerto Rican people around the world, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló needs to resign immediately to restore stability on the island and credibility for the local government. Grijalva was the first member of Congress to call for his resignation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: St. Louis MO --- Aaron Mitchell, 30, of St. Louis City, pled guilty today to one count of preparing false tax returns and one count of filing false claims for tax refunds. Mitchell appeared before United States District Judge Audrey F. Fleissig. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 29, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: BOZEMAN, MT - As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park and the USGS would like to inform the public that biologists with the National Park Service and Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will be continuing scientific grizzly bear research operations in Yellowstone National Park through October 31.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Government and the Government of Guatemala continue to make important progress on a comprehensive regional approach to addressing irregular migration patterns. The two countries are currently cooperating on several initiatives to reduce the flow of irregular migration and ensure the safety and protection of vulnerable populations, especially children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Microsoft Magyarország Számítástechnikai Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft. (Microsoft Hungary), a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, has agreed to pay a criminal penalty of more than $8.7 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a bid rigging and bribery scheme in connection with the sale of Microsoft software licenses to Hungarian government agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: A Raleigh, North Carolina, resident pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr. for the Eastern District of North Carolina. According ...
