News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Adrian Q. Brown-Sonder, 24, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter, Jr. also...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Gonzales, 26, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal drug trafficking and firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Adam B. Hill, 35, of Godfrey, Illinois, was sentenced Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in federal court to 10 years in prison for Receipt of Child Pornography, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced today. Following his prison sentence, Hill will be on...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Baldwin Park man and former 18th Street gang member pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking offense and admitted he was the triggerman in the previously unsolved 2006 murder of a person who had failed to pay “taxes" to a member of the Mexican Mafia. Eddie “Criminal" Garcia, 39, pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: HUNTSVILLE -- Federal and local law enforcement today arrested 30 of 33 defendants indicted in August as part of a long-running conspiracy to distribute cocaine in north Alabama. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, Huntsville Police Chief Mark McMurray, and Decatur Police Chief Ed Taylor announced the charges and arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that PATRICK WHITE was sentenced today by the United States District Judge Cathy Seibel to six months in prison on payroll tax fraud charges.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Washington -Four scientists have been named to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame for discoveries in genomics, sustainable farming, fruit tree breeding, air quality, climate change and crop mineral nutrition. ARS is the chief intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Blackburn & Ellmers: “These videos will make you sick - baby organs being discussed like parts to a car."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David W. Griffin (44, Lutz) today pleaded guilty to one count of bankruptcy fraud and one count of making a false statement under oath during a bankruptcy proceeding. Griffin faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for each charge. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $40,786,191 has been awarded to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. These funds will, among other things, be used to provide direct services to crime victims. The funds were awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime (“OVC"), which is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (“OJP").
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Opening statements for the Energy and Commerce Committee Markup on H.R. 702, to adapt to changing crude oil market conditions and H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015 have been rescheduled for Thursday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The committee will consider the legislation upon conclusion of the opening statements.as they are posted.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Blackburn & Ellmers: “These videos will make you sick - baby organs being discussed like parts to a car."
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2016 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists, researchers, and policymakers from 32 eligible countries.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building off last week’s hearing, the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a second panel examining federal facility cleanups under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Today’s hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Three northern Nevada Indian tribes will receive over $2.7 million in U.S. Department of Justice grants to assist them with public safety and community policing issues, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada. The awards to the Nevada tribes were included...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut climate-changing carbon pollution and continue building a clean energy economy in the United States, the Energy Department today announced more than $102 million in new projects and available funding to support American leadership...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge Kendall Sharp today sentenced Antwon Sexton (37, Cocoa) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin. He pleaded guilty on May 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. B A broker-dealer admitted today to participating in a five-year insider trading scheme that relied on information stolen from a prominent, international law firm, yielding net profits of more than $5.6 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Almundo Cruz Singer, 28 was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 75 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department announced today the release of a major national evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the purpose of the peer-reviewed evaluation was to conduct detailed analysis of the WAP's Program Year 2008 (Retrospective Evaluation)...
