News from November 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Society is increasingly concerned about exactly how much carbon dioxide and other pollutants are coming out of smokestacks. But current measurements are clouded with uncertainty, in part because calibrating the flow monitors* installed in smokestacks turns out to be a highly complicated business in which small variations in several factors can lead to large potential error.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Gower, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography and to attempting to receive child pornography over the Internet. William D.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A senior accountant at the Illinois Medical District Commission pleaded guilty today to charges she embezzled more than $130,000 from the agency by misdirecting procurement funds into her personal accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Valadez Jr., 35, of Patterson, was sentenced today to nearly 10 years in prison today for an armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Sandra Nixon, a/k/a “Lisa Hart," age 52, of Silver Spring, Maryland today to six months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to defraud the United States. Judge Garbis also entered an order requiring Nixon to pay restitution of $750,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Bruce Michael Dority, age 55, of Ogdensburg, New York, was sentenced today to serve 112 months in prison on his convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and James C. Spero, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 19, 2015, Chazz Dominic Kimble, age 19, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 20 months in prison on the charge of possession and transfer of a weapon made from a shotgun, and another consecutive 60 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher T. Gyorko, 31, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was convicted of heroin trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources (MIEW) today announced $5.1 million for six newly selected clean energy projects as part of the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program. Today’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Edwin Romine, 36, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to serve 235 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: "Come join us as we celebrate the winter holidays with songs of the season", says Shirley Torgerson,.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in a bank robbery in which his partner threatened to kill employees with a gun and dragged a woman across the floor by her hair, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement that analyzes the impacts of implementing the 2008 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 2009 National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinions associated with the coordinated long-term operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Damien Beverly, 29, of Providence, has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that he trafficked two women from Boston to Rhode Island for the purposes of offering them for commercial sexual activity and that he conspired to traffic heroin, which he provided to the women as payment...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) along with a colleague on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and with Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), heard testimony Monday in Phoenix about the effects of America’s heroin epidemic along the nation’s southern border and what local, state and federal law enforcement is doing to combat illicit narcotic trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gary L. DuRocher, age 42, formerly a resident of Maryland, was sentenced today to 33 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III in Harrisburg, for threats and starting a fire at Gettysburg National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - Lance Ealy, 29, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 124 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay approximately $61,000 in restitution following convictions for access device fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and related charges arising...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: An East St. Louis man, convicted of Distribution of Cocaine, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison on Nov. 20, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. David Lee Taylor, Jr, 35, of East St. Louis, IL, received a 57 month...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant and MS-13 Co-Conspirators Lured a Young Mother and Child into the Woods in Central Islip, Executed Them, and Fled to Central America.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: LIMA, Peru - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer Alan Bersin and Peru’s Deputy Superintendent of the National Tax Administration (SUNAT) Iván Luyo signed an agreement Friday establishing a Trade Transparency Unit (TTU).
