News from November 2015
By DOT News Wire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Projects Target Future Needs in Rural and Urban Communities Nationwide
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bois D’Arc, Mo., business owner was convicted Friday, Oct. 30, at trial of a bank fraud scheme related to the construction of his $1.6 million residence.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of H. Res. 354, expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the safety and security of Jewish communities in Europe...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Quentin Turgot Glenn, age 49, of Hanover, Maryland, who owned and operated Glenn Services, LLC, a trash hauling business, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and bribery in connection with a scheme in which commercial haulers paid Department of Public Works (DPW) employees cash in return for allowing the haulers to deposit trash at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill) without paying the required disposal fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former sergeant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, who was found guilty this summer of federal civil rights offenses related to the beating of a handcuffed visitor to the Men’s Central Jail, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, over 21,000 students in over 64 schools across Southeast Louisiana will participate in his Office’s second district-wide Student Pledge Against Gun Violence Day.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington - Former Sen. Fred Thompson passed away at the age of 73 on Sunday. Thompson chaired the Governmental Affairs Committee from 1997 to 2001. The Tennessee Republican led the passage of bipartisan legislation to improve governmental operations, including strengthening government management, reforming...
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H. Res. 293, a bipartisan resolution authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), which condemns Palestinian Authority officials who are inciting an increasing number of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Malcomb C. Cork, age 55, of South Carolina, pleaded guilty today to causing more than $187,000 to be diverted from his employer’s bank account.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is now recruiting artist submissions for the 2016 Chilkoot Trail Artist in Residency program. Three visual artists -one from Canada, one from the United States and one from the region (Yukon Territory or Alaskan residents) will be selected to participate in a cross‐border creative journey within Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Alaska and Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, British Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Sealaska Constructors LLC recently completed a National Park Service contract to remove a number of large boulders in the Elwha River channel just downstream of Glines Canyon. Between August 31 and October 8, workers designed and detonated a total of seven controlled blasts, breaking about 14 large boulders into rubble.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH -Fort Pulaski National Monument will commemorate the 153rd anniversary of the Grand Thanksgiving Fete and Festival of 1862 on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015. The event will recreate the field day offered by the 48th New York Infantry to celebrate their first Thanksgiving at Fort Pulaski.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - An Arlington, Texas, man, Steven Lass, 33, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 15 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of the Global Anti-Poaching Act (H.R.2494 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Gavin Burns Smith, age 45, of New Port Richey, Florida, pleaded guilty today to selling misbranded drugs with the intent to defraud, in connection with the sale to bodybuilders of peptides which were not approved by the FDA for human use.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Shannon Dale Smith of Crosbyton, Texas, appeared this afternoon in federal court, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig, on a federal criminal complaint stemming from his attempt to extort more than $500,000 from a Crosby County man, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Tony Torrez, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., has been charged with violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws in a criminal complaint filed by the DEA this afternoon. Torrez, who is currently in state custody on unrelated charges, will be transferred to federal custody to answer to the charges in the criminal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Imposition of Ten Year Prison Sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - On Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region, Central California Area Office, will waive day use fees at New Melones Lake for all visitors in honor of the men and women of the U.S. military who have given so much for our country.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to Bulbrook/Drislane Brokerage and Somerset Wealth Strategies requesting information about their sales of structured settlement payment streams to third parties. Structured settlements are often awarded to individuals, such as victims of lead paint exposure, who need consistent income for years or even for a lifetime.
