News from July 2015
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives on a measure marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide (H.Res.310). The resolution passed unanimously in the House.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management announced final decisions for two land use plan revisions that will guide management of BLM-administered lands and minerals in northwestern Colorado for the next two decades.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Secretary of State John Kerry to provide all reports, recommendations, letters, and comments received by the State Department from the advising agencies pursuant to Executive Order 13337 regarding the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Edwin Ludwig IV, 34, currently an inmate in an Oklahoma state prison, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and for filing false claims for federal tax refunds, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Ludwig was ordered to pay over $219,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury indicted 35-year-old Jessica Rivas Alva in connection with a scheme to defraud undocumented immigrants and their family members out of money by claiming to work on behalf of an attorney announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge, James C. Spero.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) misinterpretation and misapplication of the Helium Stewardship Act (HSA). The HSA, which passed Congress in 2013 on a bipartisan basis, was designed to encourage more diverse industry participation in helium markets and increase market competition of helium.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2015 - Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources made the following opening statement at today's markup onH.R. 487, H.R. 959, H.R. 1554, H.R. 1937, H.R. 1949, H.R. 2223, H.R. 2791, H.R. 2898, S. 501.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Victor Manuel Angulo, age 36, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced today after having been found guilty after a jury trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Senior United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Angulo to a 92-month term of imprisonment and a three-year term of court supervision following release from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Divine Garcia, 29, of New Rochelle, NY, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and bank fraud. Garcia was a middleman in a fraud conspiracy that involved recruiting employees at various banks, between Pennsylvania and New York, to provide information about bank customers’ accounts. A sentencing date is scheduled for Oct. 19, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: TORONTO - A 48-year-old Canadian citizen convicted in the United States for his involvement in the illegal sale of military materials to Iran was removed from the U.S. Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Newark, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Marco Gordon, 34, of Portland and Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, often referred to as crack cocaine, and to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a fifth Monroe County defendant pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, in connection with a methamphetamine-trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Christopher Shea, 34, of Columbus, Nebraska, was sentenced on July 7, 2015, to 121 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon. Shea had previously pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute more than 50 grams of Methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generate data and author publications that lead to advances in diverse fields such as materials science, medicine, forensic science, cybersecurity and firefighting. Results of NIST research also help U.S. industries improve their products, comply with regulations and compete internationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A Madison woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to theft of government property and money laundering as part of a scheme to obtain fraudulent tax refunds, including one for $558,857, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former U.S. Army major and his wife were convicted today on federal charges that they abused their adopted children, who all were less than 4 years old and developmentally delayed, through neglectful and cruel acts, including by breaking their bones, denying them medical attention, withholding water and force-feeding them hot sauce, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced RANDALL STREETER, 38,of Greenville, North Carolina, to 141 months in prison and 6 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine. STREETER previously pled guilty to these charges on March 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that United States District Judge Irene C. Berger sentenced two Lewisburg men to federal prison in heroin cases today. The sentences were handed down in Beckley.
