News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: A woman who used false identification documents to obtain employment was sentenced on November 9, 2015, to time served.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Lloyd Ellis Rapp, 44, of Ivydale, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Charleston to being a felon in possession of a firearm. On June 15, 2015, Rapp was fleeing from the West Virginia State Police on his...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carl W. Hoecker, Inspector General of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the Inspector General (“SEC-OIG"), announced charges against former SEC Compliance Examiner EUGENIA CANTIELLO for making...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GLEN HOUSTON, age 22; SAVANNAH HOUSTON, age 25; JARRIN HARRIS, age 21; DENVER LONDON, age 22; JOESIA WILSON, age 27, and BRITTANY CONNER, age 22, all of the Harvey/Marrero area, pled guilty today to various charges, including conspiring to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, as well as conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Four federal agencies have joined with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to sponsor a new independent panel devoted to reducing barriers to community resilience-the capacity to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Tuesday, November 17 to review efforts to expand internet access to women in developing countries. The hearing, entitled “Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and Driving International Development, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), along with Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), issued the following joint statement on efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ronald Hunt, 45, of Collinsville, Ill., a former financial customer service specialist for Columbia Management Investment Services (CMIS), a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding the estate of two deceased sisters from...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact for approving an exchange of up to 6,048 acre-feet of groundwater for up to 3,024 acre-feet of refuge (or Level 2) water with the San Luis Water District.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Wilkens, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with manufacturing child pornography and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Wilkens was working as a volunteer photographer for WXPN radio...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Cruden, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Dan Ashe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director, announced that LINXUN LIAO was sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that it has released a draft environmental assessment on the Zanni Lateral of the Crawford Clipper Ditch located in Delta County, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: A man who illegally re-entered the country was sentenced on November 9, 2015, to time served.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Douglas Wayne DeWeese, 55, of Damascus, Maryland, was sentenced today to 10 months in prison for theft of property in interstate commerce, along with two years of supervised release and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Timothy Colhour, age 24, of Otis, Oregon, was sentenced today to a total of 170 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $4,800.00...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released a report entitled “Bridging the Gaps on Prepaid Utility Service" that examines utilities’ and consumers’ experiences with prepay which is an alternative payment option in which consumers buy a dollar amount of electricity, and utilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - Donald “Ski" Johnson, 49, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sentenced yesterday to five years of probation, with six months spent under house arrest, for wire fraud. In July, a jury convicted Johnson following a two-day federal trial in Butte, Montana and determined that Johnson had defrauded...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Kenneth William Kirkland, 47, of California City, charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms, a destructive device and explosives, and failing to register a destructive device in the National Firearms Registry, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding a series of public meetings across the west to gather information on a proposal to withdraw lands determined to be crucial to the survival of the greater sage-grouse from location and entry under the 1872 Mining Law, subject to valid existing rights. The...
