News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Use of KIK Messaging System to Exchange Sexually Explicit Images Leads to Court-Authorized Search Warrant and Arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - The Burning Man event would continue to be held at current attendance levels for the next decade at Nevada’s Black Rock National Conservation Area under the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) preferred alternative, outlined in a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) released by the agency today. The document identifies and analyzes environmental impacts associated with the proposed 10-year renewal of the Burning Man Special Recreation Permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: David Wagner and Marc Lawrence Defrauded More than 30 Investors of $8 Million and Misappropriated Investor Funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to the Justice Department’s opinion on compliance with congressional requests for tax return information under section 6103 of the tax code...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation to formally authorize the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and establish energy and water usage reduction goals for federal buildings. The bill, the Federal Energy and Water Management Performance Act of 2019, is cosponsored by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: MOUNT DESERT, MAINE - Partners of the Island Explorer bus system gathered Friday, June 14 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Island Explorer bus system and the integration of 21 new propane-powered buses into the fleet. The Island Explorer is a fare-free transportation system linking hotels, campgrounds...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Yahaira Diaz, 33, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, and access device fraud. The charges against the defendant stem from her participation in what has been popularly dubbed the “Grandparents Scheme", a type of elder financial abuse. The charges come one day in advance of “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" on June 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -A federal jury has convicted Gerdandino Delgado-Escobar, a/k/a “Pumba," age 24, of Hyattsville, a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion. The verdict was returned late on June 13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on June 11, 2019, David Alzugaray-Lugones, age 50, a Cuban refugee from Weatherly, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mohamed Rafik Naji was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Frederic Block for attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. Naji pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Conviction Represents Fourth Separate Felony Drug Trafficking Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that U.S. District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Tyree C. Carney, 26, today to 25 years in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Carney was also ordered to pay $192,898.22 in restitution for the money taken and losses sustained...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Chicago to Nashville Heroin Pipeline Shut Down.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Shakeem Boykins charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The verdict followed a five-day trial before United States District Judge Edward R. Korman. When sentenced, Boykins faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the USDA Forest Service announced a proposed rule to update and modernize its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with the fraudulent abuse of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Informed Delivery electronic notification system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WHAT: Federal, state, and local law enforcement and community partners will hold the Peninsula Violent Crime Summit on Monday, June 17, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar raising questions over a newly unveiled memo that includes internal analysis on the harmful impacts of Trump Administration policy changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Pickens County Sheriff to Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Hendrix, Jr., age 39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 13, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 262 months’ imprisonment to be followed by six years of supervised release for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
