News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee Hearing. H.R. 699, the “Email Privacy Act" . Witnesses: * Mr. Andrew J. Ceresney, Director, Division of Enforcement, United States Securities and Exchange Commission. * Mr. Richard W. Littlehale, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigation ...
By State Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Investigations continue into criminal organizations from out-of-state conducting illegal grows and cultivation in Colorado
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, Ely District, Schell Field Office, will be offering 11 weanlings and 3 yearlings gathered from the Water Canyon area of the Antelope Herd Management Area at an adoption event Dec. 5 at the White Pine County Fairgrounds in Ely, Nevada.The adoption will be conducted through...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Alfreda E. Perkins, 54, of East Saint Louis, Illinois, pled guilty in federal court to charges that she engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program. Sentencing has been set for March 22, 2016. Perkins will face up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - During the Thanksgiving weekend, visitation at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area increases with the most congested time anticipated between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
By State Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following BlogHer post by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and actress Geena Davis discusses the important role technology plays in creating opportunities for women and girls around the world. Earlier this month, Chairman Royce convened a hearing to review...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today issued a second call for public nominations to fill three positions on its national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. To be considered for selection, nominations must be submitted via email or fax by Dec. 28, 2015, or postmarked by the same date. The BLM published its second request for nominations in the Federal Register at.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jarrod Terrell Hazelton, age 32, of Parkville, Maryland, a former employee at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill), pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, and wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to unlawfully sell scrap metal from the Landfill and Northwest Transfer Station (NWTS), while falsely representing to the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) that he was performing his job.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that additional criminal charges have been filed against a Cazenovia man already facing allegations of fraud and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will present an hour long program at the Crossville-Cumberland County Gateway to the Big South Fork Visitor Center featuring the Jenkins Family on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 1:30 p.m. (CT). The Jenkins Family plays a variety of traditional Appalachian stringed instruments and specializes in bluegrass music. Enjoy an afternoon of old fashioned Christmas carols to celebrate the upcoming season!.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Nov. 24, 2015, a Montego Bay, Jamaica man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, and ordered to pay $5,672,561.15 in restitution, after having been convicted at trial in North Dakota on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud or mail fraud, conspiracy to commit international money laundering, and 35 counts of wire fraud associated with his participation in the Jamaican lottery fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Tyrone Smith, 45, of Lansing, Michigan, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to three counts of sex trafficking girls and women and transporting them across state lines for prostitution. He will be sentenced in April 2016 and faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in federal prison, up to a maximum of 25 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a man who was residing in Kissimme, Florida, at the time of his arrest in September 2014, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, to participating in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy in Monroe and Wayne Counties that involved utilizing three of his children to distribute the drugs to customers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Crater Lake National Park is pleased to announce that our popular ranger-led snowshoe walks are about to begin for the 2015-2016 winter season. The walks will start this Saturday, Nov. 28, and will be offered every Saturday and Sunday (and some holidays) through May 1, 2016. Walks will also be offered on weekdays in late December and early January.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Shane Mitchell, 32, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of bank robbery, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of 77 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release and full restitution to the victim bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Michael Albert Focia, 48, of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison for dealing in firearms without a license and two counts of selling guns to people who were outside the State of Alabama, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A former high school teacher in Johnson County, Ky., who previously admitted to sexually exploiting a minor student, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s plans for continued oversight of Obamacare’s CO-OPs. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Nov. 24, 2015, Christopher Halligan, 47, Emerado, ND, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R Erickson to serve eight years in prison for one count of receipt of materials containing child pornography and three counts of possession...
