News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Defendants sold access to people’s private photographs and videos by creating an applications known as “Photofucket".
By State Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: New York Man Enters Guilty Plea to All Twenty One Counts of Federal Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 27-year-old Shallowater, Texas, man, Michael Wayne Brown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 108 months in federal prison and a 20-year term of supervised release, following his guilty plea in December 2014 to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography. Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Federal charges have been filed against Amy Fisher, 36, of Houston, alleging she committed perjury during a civil deposition and trial, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Crews finished repairing a break in the Transcanyon Pipeline (TCP) that occurred north of Phantom Ranch late Monday, May 4th. Phantom Ranch is no longer in water conservation mode and drinking water is again available at Cottonwood Campground and Roaring Springs on the North Kaibab Trail.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Colorado Canyons Association and Bureau of Land Management are scheduled to hold an educational scavenger hunt at McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area beginning Monday.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its next five upcoming hearings over the coming weeks on the three remaining titles - infrastructure, supply and accountability - of a broad energy bill, on critical minerals legislation, and on legislation before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining. More information on these hearings can be found at the links below or visiting the committee’s website.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Raytosha Elliott, a former contracting official with the Georgia National Guard, has pleaded guilty to awarding contracts in exchange for illegal kickbacks. Elliott used her position to award numerous contracts under $5,000 to vendor companies created by her friends and associates.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 8, 2015 - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) released the following statement after a the Obama Administration’s plans to unilaterally designate 700,000 acres in Southern Nevada as a national monument, without Congressional or public input.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Ft. Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on May 5, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By EPA Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 11. The committee will continue its work to say #Yes2Energy and build the Architecture of Abundance, review the United States’ oversight role of critical Internet functions, work to improve transparency and process at the FCC, and review the current state of our country’s nuclear waste management.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A commercial firefighter who resides in Huntington Beach pleaded guilty this morning to a federal charge of attempting to produce child pornography after sending money to what he thought was a young girl in the Philippines to purchase a camera to take sexually explicit photos of herself and an 11-year-old friend.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee's hearing on Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulatory issues impacting end-users and market liquidity.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Peggy Babb, 55, of Lodi, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to seven years and eight months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and violating the terms of her supervised release, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Ronald Pacheco Vasquez, a/k/a “Ricardo Hernandez," a/k/a “Samuel Batista," 29, of Queens, NY, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about April 7, 2015, Pacheco Vasquez, an alien, and native and citizen of Colombia, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Sept. 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: The Defendant Orchestrated The Murders Of Family Members Of The Man Who Helped His Daughter Escape From Pakistan To The United States.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement welcoming the Senate’s advancement of the “Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015"...
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today announced the appointment of four new members to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). The HSAC is comprised of experts from state, local and tribal governments, emergency and first responder communities, academia and the private sector who provide recommendations and advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security on a variety of homeland security issues.
