News from May 2019
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pocatello Field Office is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to address the J.R. Simplot Company’s request to exchange 719 acres of public land adjacent to Simplot’s Don Plant, for 667 acres of private land near the Chinese Peak-Blackrock Canyon area.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEV. - The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation and representatives from all seven Colorado River Basin states gathered today and signed completed drought contingency plans for the Upper and Lower Colorado River basins. These completed plans are designed to reduce risks from ongoing drought and protect the single most important water resource in the western United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Laser Strikes Can Damage Vision and Impair Safe Operation of Aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Florida Landscaper Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: St. Louis MO --- Tyron F. Kemp, 30, of St. Louis and Riverview, Florida, pled guilty today to two counts of filing false claims with the Internal Revenue Service as part of a bogus tax refund scheme. The maximum punishment is 10 years in prison and a fine of $500,000.00. Kemp appeared before United States District Judge Audrey F. Fleissig. Sentencing is scheduled for September 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that her office will be hosting a multi-district training this week, focusing on the investigation and prosecution of transnational organized drug trafficking crime as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Bryan Vonderahe, 45, of Kirkwood, Missouri, was charged on Thursday, May 16, in a federal indictment for three counts of Wire Fraud. He appeared this morning in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Cohen.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service selected David Brouillette to serve as the superintendent of San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park starting in July. He replaces Kevin Hendricks, who retired last month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDALL CELESTINE, age 21, of New Orleans, was sentenced Thursday, May 16, 2019 for federal firearms and narcotics violations.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2020 Energy and Water Development and Defense appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An administrator for a company that received a state grant for a recovery housing program was sentenced today for committing mail fraud relating to falsifying grant reimbursement requests to the State of West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. David Stevens, 57...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: A Southfield, Michigan-based doctor pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme involving approximately $2.5 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health and physician services that were medically unnecessary, not provided and procured through the payment of illegal kickbacks.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Lower B500 Road Removal Project.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Michigan man caught with heroin in August 2017 was sentenced today to 18 months for his role in a federal drug conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Nyanzangusa Baldwin, also known as “Botch," 45, previously pled guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: A man who distributed crack cocaine in Waterloo was sentenced May 17, 2019, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A man who broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours and stole North America’s oldest-living ring-tailed lemur in captivity to keep the endangered animal as a pet has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Johnson, age 51, of York, Pennsylvania, was convicted on May 16, 2019, for Hobbs Act robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence after a two-day jury trial before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: As prepared: I’m honored to join you this morning to discuss “Women in Globalization" and join such a distinguished panel. You know, we represent more than 50 percent of the world’s talent, at least half of its creativity and drive, not to mention its brain power. Some might say a good bit more than...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Juan Carlos Pena-Lora, 32 of Detroit, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for negotiating over 2,000 U.S. Treasury income tax refund checks generated from false income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: FREDERICK, Md.-This Memorial Day Weekend, Monocacy National Battlefield will honor the 2,200 soldiers who fell at the battlefield 155 years ago. You’re invited to help place 2,200 flags near the visitor center to remember the fallen, and to participate in volunteer and ranger-led programs over the weekend.
