News from May 2019
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking comments on an environmental assessment (EA) analyzing a proposal to treat vegetation and fuels as part of a wildfire mitigation project near Castle Valley, Utah. The proposal covers approximately 1,400 acres of fuel breaks within a larger 7,500-acre planning and analysis area.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Homestead Days 2019 is coming soon! This will be the 40th anniversary of the annual event and we invite you to Homestead National Monument of America on Friday, June 21, 2019 through Sunday, June 23, 2019 to participate in this weekend full of free events!.
By State Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Congressional national security leaders unveiled legislation to provide stringent congressional oversight of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea and any agreement that emerges from the Trump Administration’s engagement with Kim Jong Un. The bipartisan North Korea Policy Oversight Act of 2019...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 4,009,438 visitors to Yosemite National Park in 2018 spent $495,245,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 6,184 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $624,129,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Previously Convicted Rapist Had Stolen Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a six-count indictment was unsealed charging Wesley Blake Barber, the owner of Surgical Assistance Inc. and Medical Funding Consultants LLC, and Christopher Walker, a licensed urogynecologist and owner of MedSurg Holdings LLC, for their roles in an alleged scheme to defraud women across the United States in connection with surgeries to remove transvaginal mesh (TVM) implants.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: CHALLIS, Idaho- All the BLM Challis Field Office campgrounds are officially open for the summer 2019 season. There are many beautiful areas to choose from, including the very popular Joe T. Fallini Campground on Mackay Reservoir. The Joe T. Fallini recreation area has 22 RV sites with water and electric hookups, $10 with water, $14 with water and electric, and $16 for a double site. The views of the Lost River Range from your campsite are unbeatable.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national was sentenced in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation and immigration document fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that former New York City Police Department detective Saed Rabah was sentenced to 24 months in prison for knowingly providing misinformation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Morris & Dickson Company LLC has agreed to pay the United States $22 million in civil penalties to resolve claims that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to report suspicious orders of hydrocodone and oxycodone, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney David C. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Robert Ashton Kerns, 23, of Long Beach, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 46 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Madera County Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Sampel, 48, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 360 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the nomination of Treasury Department General Counsel Brent McIntosh to be Undersecretary for International Affairs...
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Custom Rubber Products LLC - based in Houston, Texas - for failing to properly guard machinery and exposing employees to severe injury and amputation hazards. The company faces $530,392 in fines, the maximum penalty allowable by law.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Cecil John Zak, 40, of North Pole, Alaska, has been federally indicted with attempted possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Zak was arrested on May 20, 2019, based on a criminal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Three parents charged in the college admissions case pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Dionne Lamont Gatling, a/k/a “Cuffy," 53, of St. Charles, MO, to 27 years in prison for drug trafficking charges and the use of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Sabrinea Lallonie Brooks, 28, of St. Lucie County, Florida, pled guilty to participating in a wire fraud scheme and embezzling funds from employers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Turab Lookman, 67, of Santa Fe, N.M., made an initial appearance in federal court today on charges of making false official statements about his involvement with a program established by the Chinese government to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property.
