News from June 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - This weekend the park expects significant congestion in the Lake McDonald Lodge and Avalanche area due to hiker and biker recreation on the Going-to-the-Sun Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced JOSE DIAZ-CASTANEDA, 45, of Mexico on June 4, 2019 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Diaz-Castaneda was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served and ordered to pay a $100.00 special...
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: Defendant Made Repeated Attempts to Reach ISIS-Controlled Territory and Discussed Plans for a Terror Attack on Times Square Using a Garbage Truck.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the establishment of the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for six federal districts...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Few sectors of the American economy have been hit as hard by the U.S.-China trade conflict as the corn and soybean farmers whom Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley counts among his Iowa constituents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Frederick Edward Patterson, Jr., 45, of Theodore, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court today, on drug and gun charges. Patterson pled guilty to the two charges, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking felony, on March 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN L. MURRAY, age 66, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to a one count indictment for bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement on the retirement of Rep. Susan W. Brooks. Rep. Brooks serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Communications and Technology, the Health, and the Oversight and Investigations subcommittees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sherquille Ernest, age 26, of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on June 12, 2019, before U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to the charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Cameron Soto, 26, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office in Sioux City will hold a press conference Monday, June 17, 2019, at 3:30 p.m. where Branch Chief Timothy Duax and other members of law enforcement will discuss recent efforts to confront gun crimes and violence in Northwest Iowa, including the recent charging of 26 defendants for federal gun-related crimes. The press conference will be held at the United States Attorney’s Office located at 600 Fourth St. Suite 670, Sioux City, IA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Jennifer C. Boone Named Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - On June 17, 2019, five men will be sentenced in federal district court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, following their convictions for drug, robbery, and gun crimes related to the fatal shooting of an individual in Coggon, Iowa, in February 2017. On June 18, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, John Servider was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 18 months’ imprisonment and fined $1,000 for obstructing a grand jury investigation in the Eastern District of New York. Specifically, Servider conspired to alter, and...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Halliburton Energy Services’ proposed Rossi Barite Mine Expansion Project in Elko County, Nevada. Publication of the final EIS commences a 30-day review period, after which the BLM will issue a final record of decision for the proposed expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Cameron Soto, 26, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Sean Kelly has been sentenced to federal prison for wire fraud and securities fraud after pleading guilty to stealing over $1.4 million from his clients.
By DOE 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: Portland, Maine. United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced Nancy Ludwig, 65, of Lewiston, Maine, was convicted in U.S. District Court following a 5-day jury trial of health care fraud conspiracy, paying kickbacks, using fraudulent medical documents, and obstructing an audit.
