News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Russell Ray Moore, 63, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken to 15 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moore will also be on three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 19, 2015, Corbert Goldtooth, 43, of Window Rock, Ariz. and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 360 months’ imprisonment. Goldtooth was previously found guilty by a federal jury of second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank Admits to Sanctions Violations, Agrees to Forfeit $312 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kevin Hawkins, 50, of San Bernardino, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Hawkins will be sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 20, 2015 -Effective today at 8:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, Sequoia &Kings Canyon National Parks are lifting fire restrictions inside the parks.Recent rains as well as shorter and cooler days have reduced fire danger. Even with restrictions lifted, visitors must still follow the parks' year-round regulations concerning fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Vermont. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Kenneth Holland, 49, of Barre, Vermont was sentenced today to a 60-month term of imprisonment. Chief Judge Christina Reiss also ordered...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Sugar Creek Packing Co., Fairfield, Ohio
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Dear Colleague: When it comes to fighting climate change, American businesses are on board. In case you missed it, the CEOs of some of America’s largest food and beverage companies recently published an open letter encouraging leaders from the United States and around the world to reach a meaningful...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
Release: NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced preliminary Farm to School Census data for school year 2013-2014 that indicate strong farm to school programs can increase the number of students purchasing school breakfast and lunch, improve consumption of healthier foods...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The 40th Annual Marine Corps Marathon will be held on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015 and begin at 7:45 a.m. Roughly sixty percent of the Marathon is run on National Park Service roads. Road closures and detours will be in effect between the hours of 4 a.m. and 1 p.m. - Streets will reopen on a rolling basis as the last participant has passed and all course support materials have been removed. - A comprehensive list of all road closures is included below.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Oct. 20, 2015, The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota has reviewed all of the investigative reports, interviews, the final autopsy report and photos relating to the shooting of Joseph Charboneau, 31, by Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: An editorial by United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Combined With Payments to Regulators, Bank to Pay $787.3 Million.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider six nominees for the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior. Murkowski used her opening statement to lay out a litany of anti-Alaska actions by Interior, expressing frustration with those decisions and observing that the department is “destroying the hopes" of countless Alaskans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Kavin Carter (40, Lake City) to 16 years’ imprisonment for sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, or coercion. He was also ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine. Carter pleaded guilty on Nov. 24, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3763), a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lebanon, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Wayne Harlan Files, 78...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Warrensburg, Mo., man and an Independence, Mo., man were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - Edward Dorsey Sr., 43, of St. Anne, Ill., was sentenced late last week to 327 months (27 years, three months) in federal prison for repeated trafficking of crack cocaine. On Friday, Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Colin Bruce added 51 months to Dorsey’s previous sentence of 276 months (23 years.) The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals had remanded Dorsey’s case to the district court for resentencing after Dorsey challenged conditions of his supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, Nov. 5, President Obama will host the 2015 White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference will provide leaders from the 567 federally recognized tribes the opportunity to interact directly with high-level federal government officials and members of the White House Council on Native American Affairs.
