News from July 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on Chairman Ken Calvert’s Confederate battle flag amendment and the Republican leadership’s subsequent decision to pull the Interior & Environment Appropriations bill from the House floor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the White House on Thursday disclosed that the OPM data breaches revealed last month were far broader than the Obama administration has admitted: They involved an additional 21.5 million people, including federal employees’ spouses and children, and biometric data for 1.1 million employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Christopher David Wix, a former active duty U.S. Army soldier based at Fort Hood in Killeen, has been sentenced on alien smuggling charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Wix, 21, of Abilene, entered a plea to conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented aliens Oct. 30, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: July 9, 2015 15-042. Traci Weaver or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. Yellowstone National Park rangers and state and federal transportation officials will conduct safety evaluations of commercial vehicles and operators traveling in the park this summer. Designed to ensure the safe operation...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA - This notice is to inform campers of a temporary camping closure southeast of Gloomy Knob in the West Arm of Glacier Bay beginning July 20 and ending Aug. 31, 2015. The camping closure includes the shoreline of the estuary of the Vivid Lake outflow stream and two adjacent beaches extending 100 yards inland (see map).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Maria Elizabeth Townsend, age 39, of Burbank, Washington, was sentenced yesterday following conviction after a five-day jury trial in February 2015 of ten counts of failing to pay over employment...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: LA PORTE, Texas - In November 2014, a worker was overcome at a DuPont chemical manufacturing facility when a supply line unexpectedly released more than 20,000 lbs. of methyl mercaptan, a deadly chemical. Three co-workers came to the worker's aid in an attempted rescue, but all four were asphyxiated fatally by the colorless, flammable, and highly toxic gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Jesus Casteyano, a/k/a Jesus Castellano, a/k/a Jesus Castellano-(53, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of four drug traffickers have been sentenced for their convictions related to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving methamphetamine and heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after a five-day trial, a federal jury found Isreal “Puck" Washington, 41, of Sacramento, guilty of all 10 counts in the indictment for trafficking heroin, cocaine, cocaine base, and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant Terrance Barimah fails to appear for his sentencing hearing; Court issues a warrant for his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Defendants Diverted Investors’ Money for Their Personal Use.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a series of listening sessions on the federal coal program. The discussions will seek information from the public about how the BLM can best carry out its responsibility to ensure that American...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant Carried Out Scheme While on Supervised Release for Previous Bank Fraud Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - After deliberating approximately two hours, a jury of four men and eight women found Ronald W. Repak guilty of violating federal extortion and bribery laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today, Thursday, July 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, 51-year-old Oscar Gilberto Rodriguez was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving City of San Antonio contracts announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on Sept. 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin on Dec. 23, 2011. Warner also admitted that the injection of heroin caused the death of the minor, identified in court documents as J.D.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded Thursday to the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General’s June 4 “white paper" defending its flawed inspection of the Tomah, Wis., VA Medical Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following the recently concluded Natural Resources Committee markup, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva highlighted the wide-spread opposition to the Republican majority’s bill - which passed on a nearly party-line vote - weakening the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and other environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Two men were sentenced to decades in prison, following their participation in a carjacking spree in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
