News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, 46, both residents of Diamond, Oregon in Harney County, were sentenced to five years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken for arsons they committed on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury indicted a Watuga, TX, man for his alleged role in an undocumented alien smuggling conspiracy announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Mark Dawson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph woman who was employed as a nanny was arrested today and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with forging 65 checks totaling over $280,000 from her employers’ bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former Director of the Division of Facilities Management for Union County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for his role in defrauding the county of more than $120,000 in connection with the purchasing of supplies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam Mack, 39, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for aiding and abetting visa and marriage fraud and making...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A former correctional officer at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Fort Worth pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to one count of sexual abuse with a ward, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who is handling the case, stated that Hassan was the owner and operator of City Market & Deli and City Market in Buffalo. Between Nov. 1, 2010 and Aug. 31, 2012, the defendant directed his employees to purchase food stamp benefits for less than their full value in exchange for cash from eligible beneficiaries.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: The 21st Century Cures Act has attracted researchers, physicians, advocates, and patients to engage in a discussion about how to unleash the next generation of cures and treatments, taking advantage of the incredible promise of science and research. Throughout this multiyear effort, the patients have served as an inspiration to continue fighting. Matthew Dugas, a resident of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is no different.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $42,350 for Arthur Funk & Sons Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today the creation of a new hotshot firefighting crew in southern Arizona. The establishment of the crew responds to a nationwide increase in wildfire activity and the need for additional skilled personnel. The crew will be stationed at Fort Huachuca thanks to a partnership between the BLM and U.S. Army.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Opening Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Stacy L. Harden, 42, of Desoto, Texas, pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, on October 6, 2015, to one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Stacey R. Carlton, 36, of Cleveland, with possessing with intent to distribute approximately three kilograms of heroin, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the nation's farmer, rancher and fishery cooperatives posted record income and revenue in 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining the administration’s cap and trade rules. On Aug. 3, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued two final rules and a third proposed rule to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the follow statement after the White House issued a veto threat of Rep. Joe Barton’s H.R.702, legislation that would lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Seekonk man was arrested today and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A former youth minister in Garland, Texas, Derek Hutter, 38, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 264 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Senator Boxer's Floor Speech On The Need For The House To Pass a Long-term Surface Transportation Bill
