News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Alan Bradley, 54, of Middletown, R.I., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi to five years probation, having been convicted at trial by a federal court jury of driving to endanger death resulting in the death of Navy Detective Frank Lema in September 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Colonel Brian F. Meraviglia of the Connecticut State Police and Easton Police Chief Timothy Shaw announced that a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The owner and operator of a prep school admissions business was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in embezzling funds.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved legislation to lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. H.R. 702, to adapt to crude oil market conditions, passed the committee by a vote of 31-19. Chairman Emeritus Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) introduced the bipartisan legislation which is expected to be considered by the full house later this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York Announces Criminal Charges Against General Motors and Deferred Prosecution Agreement with $900 Million Forfeiture.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Hypoxia and harmful algal blooms have become a national concern. Outbreaks of toxic algal blooms along the Pacific coast have shut down commercial and recreational shellfishing in portions of three states. Also, the large oxygen-depleted “dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico imperils valuable commercial and recreational fisheries, and the persistent Lake Erie bloom has threatened public water supplies and the area’s $12.9 billion tourism industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Ryan Joseph Hribick, 34, of Minersville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for possession of unregistered firearms, manufacturing and dealing explosive materials, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and witness tampering. Hribick made, possessed, and sold improvised explosive devices ("IEDs"), including PVC pipes - some containing nails, screws, and/or rocks - and cardboard tubes, all center primed with flash powder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Arrested in November 2014 Operation Targeting Members and Associates of Various White Supremacist Organizations.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to discuss two draft bills authored by full committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) to bolster the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 and the Partial-Birth...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Community leaders in North Central West Virginia are taking a new approach to combat drug abuse and overdose deaths in the region, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Springdale, UT- Search and Rescue personnel have located the body of the last missing canyoneer from Keyhole Canyon. This brings the total fatalities to 7. The names of the individuals have not been released at this time and will be released once the family and next of kin have been notified.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ferlin Platero, 50, of Crownpoint, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for failing to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - The Department of Justice today announced 206 awards, totaling more than $97 million, to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, tribal consortia and tribal designees. The announcement was made at the 2015 Tribal Leader Briefing, sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians, and included Tribal leaders, Members of Congress and Administration officials.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the oversight mechanisms of the American Red Cross. The report was requested by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, after unorganized and mismanaged responses to significant natural disasters - including Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Springdale, UT- Rangers at Zion National Park continue to search for three missing canyoneers following Monday's flash flood in Keyhole Canyon. At this time there are four confirmed fatalities. Names will not be released until the families have been notified.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: On Aug. 31, 2015, Women's Rights National Historical Park, in collaboration with the National Women's Hall of Fame, hosted a town hall meeting led by United States Treasurer Rosie Rios. A crowd of more than a hundred and fifty local community members gathered in the Wesleyan Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848, to discuss which historical woman should be featured on the new $10.00 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County, N.J., man who works as a high school teacher was charged today with soliciting a minor victim online to produce images of sexually explicit conduct in exchange for money, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Redwood National and State Parks will conduct a series of prescribed burns this fall in the prairies, oak woodlands and conifer forest of the Bald Hills east of Orick.The prescribed fire season in the parks begins in late September or early October as weather conditions permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who is handling the case, stated that between January 2014 and Sept. 30, 2014, the defendant obtained marijuana via commercial shipments from co-conspirator, James Parish, of Carlsbad, California. In turn, Stevens deposited $38,100 in marijuana proceeds...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announces that in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and in recognition of the work yet to be done to fully realize the goals of the ADA, Vermont state agencies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...
