News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - James Peyton Busbee Jr., 30, of Victoria, has entered a guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Judge Orders Home to be Forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Jersey man and a Brooklyn, New York, man were convicted today on multiple counts in connection with a multimillion-dollar, multi-state burglary spree, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Daniel Garcia, aka “Cholo" 41, and Jhony Hernandez, aka “Manuel Barrior Ramirez" 23, both from Mexico, were arrested in Montgomery on Oct. 29, 2015, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO B Frank Lewis White, 55, of Great Falls, Montana, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawful gun possession, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered White to forfeit his interest in the firearm. White was convicted by a federal jury on Aug. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - NetCracker Technology Corp. has agreed to pay $11.4 million and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) has agreed to pay $1.35 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they used individuals without security clearances on a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contract, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DONALD GEORGE BUTLER, JR., age 51, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to failing to register as sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Morristown National Historical Park has received the first shipment of its new park brochure! Park staff coordinated with the National Park Service's Harpers Ferry Center to design and produce this new visitor resource. The Harpers Ferry Center provides expertise in interpretive media to all National Park Service sites.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Everglades National Park invites the public to enjoy a new art exhibit "My muse the Everglades, A nature painters dream" by Deborah LaFogg Docherty, wildlife and landscape artist.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Regional Office announced that it has executed an Interagency Agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) that will provide funding for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to conduct the Phase II Study for future operation of the Navajo...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: A public program about the research and monitoring efforts to understand avian botulism outbreaks will be held at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Allen Prout, 43, of Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to two counts of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, and one count each of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm, admitting to the court that he participated in two separate Hobbs Act robbery conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Eric S. Miller, along with representatives from Vermont’s 2-1-1 network, Give Way to Freedom, the United Way, the Vermont Department of Child and Family Services, the Center for Crime Victim Services, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, the Vermont Network Against Domestic and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, is New Jersey’s general election, and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman is reminding voters to use the Election Day Hotline if they suspect voter fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will receive and respond to reports of election irregularities, voter intimidation or any...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that EDWARD THOMAS, also known as “Fire," 41, of New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 210 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of minors. THOMAS also was ordered to pay $28,700 in restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Staff Sergeant Thomas Allen Vaughn (33, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint for enticement of a minor for sex.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking further information concerning apparent efforts by the agency to prevent the codification of an important provision of the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in London, Kentucky, has indicted two former deputy jailers at the Kentucky River Regional Jail on charges related to the July 9, 2013, in-custody death of Larry Trent, a pretrial detainee at the jail. The indictment charges Damon Hickman, 38, and William Howell, 59, with causing Trent’s death, and charges Hickman with attempting to cover up his involvement in the death.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed the Global Anti-Poaching Act (H.R. 2494), legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which helps the United States and partner countries combat today’s unprecedented level of poaching and wildlife trafficking.
