News from June 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: In case you missed it, this column, written by Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), was published at FoxBusiness.com and calls for all potential safety factors in the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines accidents to be investigated.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man was sentenced today to spend 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and traveling in interstate commerce in order to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Accepted Thousands in Payments while Making False Claims He could Get Victims’ Money Back from a Bad Investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARBIR PARMAR was sentenced in White Plains federal court to three years in prison for kidnapping and wire fraud. PARMAR pled guilty on March 11, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Louise Larivee, 60, of Swanton, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal fraud charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Larivee on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced on Thursday, June 20, 2019 that OLIN D. GRANT, JR., age 22, a resident of Marrero, Louisiana was charged in a four-count indictment by a federal grand jury. In count one, GRANT is charged with possession with the intent to distribute...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent Jim Richardson is pleased to share the news that the decision to replace the Drakesbad Wastewater Disposal Field has been finalized. The Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) approving the selected alternative was signed by Stan Austin, Pacific West Regional Director, on June 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, NE-As part of the FBI’s commitment to attract highly skilled and diverse talent, the FBI Omaha Field Office will host a Diversity Agent Recruitment (DAR) event on July 23, 2019, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Special agents and professional staff from the FBI will be available to discuss career opportunities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A retired Massachusetts State Police Trooper was sentenced today in connection with collecting over $29,000 in overtime pay that he did not work.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Man convicted of attempting to travel to join ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATALIE LEVINE, 35, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to five years of probation for engaging in a kickback scheme related to fentanyl spray prescriptions. Judge Arterton also ordered Levine to spend the first six months of probation in home confinement, and to perform 150 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: Three men accused of committing a string of armed robberies in the St. Louis metropolitan area are facing new charges in the Southern District of Illinois. Jalon Moore and Garry Johnson, of St. Louis, and Larry Rhines, of Collinsville, Illinois, have been charged in a superseding federal indictment with conspiracy to commit multiple armed robberies, two counts of business robbery, one count of bank robbery, and using firearms to commit each of those robberies.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jonathan Wade Bohn, 43, of West Frankfort, Illinois, in the October 2014 mailing of two threatening letters to officials in Franklin County, Illinois.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. June 23, 2019 - As of this afternoon, ignitions are complete on the Ash Mountain Prescribed Burn in Sequoia National Park. Approximately 28 acres have been treated with prescribed fire, and another 12 acres are being treated mechanically (e.g., weed whipping, grazing pack stock).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park fire resources completed ignition operations on the Long Jim Prescribed Fire. Crews will continue to patrol the unit and mop up any areas along the fires perimeter that may threaten the holding line.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A first degree murder suspect was arrested in Memphis earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - This afternoon, “Fugitive of the Week," Samantha Smith, 31, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force at an apartment complex on Indian Brook Circle in Rochester, NH. Ms. Smith was wanted on an arrest warrant issued out of the Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, NH...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2019
Release: BE’ER SHEVA, ISRAEL - Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Israel’s Minister of Energy Dr. Yuval Steinitz held a bilateral meeting at the Israel National Cyber Directorate in Be’er Sheva to discuss efforts for mutually beneficial cyber security and artificial intelligence cooperation. ...
