News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEONID POLLAK, also known as “Lenny," 59, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an investment fraud scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Instead of focusing on critical issues facing America’s infrastructure, including U.S. communities’ disaster readiness and ongoing recovery efforts or working to produce a bipartisan infrastructure package, the Committee today held a partisan hearing intended to help opponents of the President try to further the narrative on impeachment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Effective Friday, Sept. 27, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will lift all fire restrictions for public lands administered by the Phoenix District, including the Lower Sonoran Field Office and Hassayampa Field Office. Due to widespread precipitation across the area, additional rain in the weather forecast, and a rise in fuel moistures, it has been determined that the likelihood of wildfire has lessened to the degree that the restrictions can be rescinded.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Upper Snake Field Office will begin asphalt seal coating the Egin Lakes Campground/Day Use Area during the week of Oct. 7, weather permitting. Recreation sites will remain open during this time but may result in a minor inconvenience to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Templeton man was arrested yesterday and charged with federal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Romeo Valentin Sanchez (32, Cape Coral) to life in federal prison for producing child pornography, enticing a minor to engage in sexual conduct, and possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Sanchez to forfeit two cellphones that he had used to receive and store the images.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that the following sentences were handed down this week for defendants’ participation in a nationwide child exploitation enterprise and child pornography conspiracy occurring over the online communications...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: On Sept. 24, 2019, Willie Dishon Matthew Obadiah, 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pled guilty to sex trafficking of a minor, before U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Help collect seed from Homestead National Monument of America’s tallgrass prairie. Interested volunteers are invited to meet at Homestead’s Education Center on Oct. 12, 2019 at 1 p.m. for a short orientation to learn about the species that will be collected before heading out to the prairie to harvest seed. All ages are welcome; please bring gloves and wear long pants and long sleeve shirts along with sturdy shoes as you will be walking through the prairie.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: ALTURAS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Applegate Field Office will begin prescribed burning projects this week and continuing through the fall, winter and spring months on public lands in northeast California and far northwest Nevada. Burning will take place only when weather allows for safe and successful burning.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: The Every Kid Outdoors annual pass provides fourth grade students, along with their families, friends and classmates, free access to 2,000 federal recreation areas for a year. The Every Kid Outdoors Program encourages fourth graders to explore, learn and recreate in spectacular settings, including national parks, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries and forests.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former CEO and co-founder of a Boston-based mobile phone music streaming service, has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars from his employer and to file false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Cleveland, Ohio, was found guilty after a two-day jury trial of offenses related to the burglary of the store of a federally licensed gun dealer and the robbery of a gas station, in Clarion County, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with an international money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEONID POLLAK, also known as “Lenny," 59, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an investment fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Eastern Colorado Area Office would like to announce an open house to present information on redesign plans for the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel treatment plant Tuesday, October 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Colorado Mountain College’s Climax Building (a.k.a. KW Building), 901 US-24, Leadville, Colorado, Room 401.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Vice President Mike Pence, Congressman John Joyce (R-PA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Assistant Director Brian Harrell joined several faith-based community leaders for a Faith-Based Safety and Security Symposium at the White House. The event focused...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Artinis Winston, 43, of Northeast, D.C. was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in a large-scale narcotics trafficking conspiracy. U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Ashburnham man was arrested yesterday in federal court in Worcester and charged with a federal firearms offense.
