News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Mexican man was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for laundering more than $4.7 million in drug funds through his bank accounts in Kansas and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, a money judgment of more than $4.7 million was entered against him.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: National Park Service Ranger Howard Duncan will retire on Dec. 31, 2015, after 30 years at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Duncan is a life-long resident of the Big South Fork area and has always had a deep personal connection to the lands that now make up the park, which he began...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men, already convicted sex offenders who resided in Corpus Christi, have both been convicted for online solicitation of a minor in separate but similar cases, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Each weekend, explore a different National Park Service site through the Find Your Park Film Series at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. This year-long series celebrates the upcoming 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and 50th anniversary of the national...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Raul Mendoza, age 51, of Denver, Colorado was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2015 by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, the United States Attorney John Walsh announced, along with Special Agents in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: As part of its efforts to provide communities and businesses with products, tools, services, and funding to better address weather- and climate-related threats, today NOAA announced $4 million in recommended funding for six habitat restoration projects across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public input on the draft directive and standard for technology transfer agreements which outlines Reclamation's responsibilities and requirements for participating in research partnerships with the private sector and other non-federal entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that PETER TORRES, 47, of East Lyme, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of attempted tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following remarks today laying out his vision for the committee as it looks to advance Speaker Ryan’s pro-growth agenda throughout the rest of the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Hosie Hopkins, age 49, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute narcotics. Judge Quarles also entered an order that Hopkins forfeit a semi-automatic handgun and ammunition which Hopkins was prohibited from possessing as a result of two previous drug convictions.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Development’s (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) reports, and the European Union’s (EU) State Aid investigations regarding member-countries’ tax rulings...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: It may not have been your typical open house since it included a baptism. But this baptism didn’t involve a baby. It was a building-New Mexico’s first net zero energy building. On Oct. 14, 2015, in Peñasco, about 50 miles north of Santa Fe, the Picuris Pueblo held an open house for the grand opening...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - DRS Technical Services, Inc. (DRS TSI), located in Herndon, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a civil fraud case that claimed their employees engaged in labor mischarging resulting in a loss to the U.S. government of $544,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to a notice from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on measures to curtail corporate tax inversions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James Robert Underwood, 43, of Dalton, Georgia, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 33 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender. Underwood pleaded guilty on June 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANK BIANCUR, JR., 41, of West Haven, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to seeking and receiving illegal payments while employed as a Zoning Enforcement Officer for the Town of East Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national was sentenced to 13 months in prison for reentering the United States multiple times illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Miguel Salazar-Gomez, age 33, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to 21 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg for illegally re-entering the United States.
