News from May 2019

By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: ORLEANS, Mass. - The National Park Service today signed a ten year lease with CJNL, Inc. of Brewster, MA to operate at a motel in Cape Cod National Seashore at the former location of Nauset Knolls Motor Lodge. The original motor lodge was built in 1950 prior to the establishment of the Cape Cod National...

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian M. McKnight and DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that felony drug charges have been filed against two Addison men accused of possessing approximately one kilogram of heroin. Luis Ortiz, 24...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Seeks Suspect in Navajo Nation Murder.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former corrections officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute facility in Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to smuggle Suboxone strips into the facility for an inmate.

By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: The 21st annual Tallgrass Prairie Fiddle Festival and Acoustic Band Contest has been set for Saturday, May 25, 2019. With free fiddle and harmonica workshops in the morning, a luthier on-site, jam sessions erupting throughout the day, and over $3,000 in award monies, it is sure to be an event you will...
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is currently recruiting TSA officers to work at Portland International Airport (PDX).
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Multiple Federal Arrest Warrants Served in a Transportation of Stolen Vehicles in Interstate and Foreign Commerce Investigation.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Kikiktagruk Inupiat Corporation (“KIC"), an Alaska Native Corporation, and KIC Development LLC (“KICD"), a subsidiary of KIC, have agreed to pay $2.025 million to settle allegations that kickbacks were paid by KICD so that the company would obtain diverted “set aside" contracts to do construction work at Ft. Bliss military installation in El Paso, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - This notice is to inform visitors of temporary closures to foot traffic and minimum approach distance of 100 yards at four islands in Glacier Bay. The purpose of these closures is to protect high concentrations of nesting seabirds by minimizing human caused disturbance and mortalities of chicks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former resident of Durant, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for preparing and filing a fraudulent claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst of the Southern District of Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.

By State Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing "Countering a Resurgent Russia"...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Hailong Zhang, 46, of Nottingham was sentenced to serve two years of probation, with 10 months of home detention, and fined $5,500 for aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of stolen money, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for using his position as an employee of the U.S. Army Contracting Command New Jersey (ACC-NJ) in connection with his role in two conspiracies in construction projects at Picatinny Arsenal (PICA) and Joint Base McGuire-Dix Lakehurst (Ft. Dix), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 39, of St. Louis County, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Sedina Unkic Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted her plea and set her sentencing for August 9, 2019. U.S. Attorney Jeffrey...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Defendant smuggled into the country to work for a drug trafficking organization.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Susan A. Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Atlantic City man was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering operation in the Atlantic County area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today appeared on Bloomberg TV’s “Balance of Power" to discuss the ongoing situation in Venezuela in addition to news that the administration plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran, and his work as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Ohio university professor pleaded guilty in federal court today to traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to engage in sexual activity with a person whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.