News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, April 13, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host a special 90-minute tour focusing on some of the more extreme soldiers associated with the Battle of Chickamauga. This program begins inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, before making its way onto the battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: MS-13 Member Sentenced to 26 Years in Federal Prison for His Participation in a Violent Racketeering Conspiracy, Including a Murder and Attempted Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Benjamin, 57, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pled guilty yesterday to a federal charge stemming from making a false statement to the FBI, and to a District of Columbia charge stemming from a scheme to defraud individuals that trusted the defendant to invest money on their behalf announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: New Castle, DE - First State National Historical Park, in partnership with the Delaware Division of.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Trinity River Restoration Program, a Department of the Interior established multi-agency program, will host a public informational meeting to present 2019 Lewiston Dam spring restoration flow releases and Trinity River gravel augmentation plans. TRRP staff will be available to answer questions on the presentations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that nine individuals, including seven law enforcement officers, have been indicted in federal court in South Carolina on visa fraud and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JEREMY MILLUL pled guilty to participating in a scheme to trade on material, nonpublic information in advance of the Sherwin-Williams Company’s acquisition of the Valspar Corporation. MILLUL pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Two Corporate Executives Indicted in First-Ever Criminal Prosecution for Failure to Report Under Consumer Product Safety Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lee Pauley, Jr., of Mount Storm, West Virginia, has admitted to methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Peregrine falcons are again defending nesting territories at the Precipice, Jordan, and Valley Cove cliffs in Acadia National Park. Park staff has observed adults at these sites engaging in courtship and pre-nesting behavior signaling the birds’ intentions to nest and raise chicks...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: “Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West" author, Brian Cannon, speaks at Homestead National Monument of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Ukrainian Man Extradited to the United States to Face Charges in International Money Laundering and Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on March 26, 2019, in federal court to felony drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - As we close Women’s History Month, United States Attorney David J. Freed and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania honor the outstanding service and contributions of our female Assistant United States Attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that in federal court, United States Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones, Jr. accepted a guilty plea in a health care fraud matter.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) that would conserve westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout in the upper Camas drainage. The project would remove non-native Yellowstone cutthroat trout from Camas Lake, Lake Evangeline, and Camas Creek above Arrow Lake with the fish toxicant rotenone, and relocate native westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout to Camas Lake and Lake Evangeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - South Korean authorities extradited to the United States a Ukranian man in connection with allegations that he conducted an extensive money laundering and fraud campaign that targeted dozens of victims, including a corporation based in the Western District of North Carolina.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2018, which runs from Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected two additional projects to receive $5 million in total federal funding: one each under DE-FOA-0001829 Developing Technologies for Advancement of Associated Geologic Storage for Basinal Geo-Laboratories, and DE-FOA-0001830...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ODIS AUBREY KING, 74, of Edmond, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $750,000 from his employer and filing a false federal income tax return, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
