News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Hollister, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to producing child pornography. Michael Shane Tyson, 30, of Hollister, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Sept.
By State Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in rejecting President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. Following House debate on three measures regarding the Iran deal, Chairman Royce issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today hailed the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) newly announced decision to continue operating separate Arizona and New Mexico field offices, a decision that will maintain the agency’s high level of local service and management expertise in each state.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - On Friday, Oct. 2, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office will celebrate National Public Lands Day at Lake Berryessa with a special event to help restore the lake’s native landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Keith Monroe Wallace was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Four men were indicted yesterday in the wake of an increase in gun violence in West Palm Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Disbarred securities lawyer allegedly defrauded clients and investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jesus Velez, 21, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 66 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, gave the following remarks on the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) this week respectively authored draft legislation to strengthen and improve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The discussion drafts to be reviewed at a Health Subcommittee hearing next Thursday will strengthen enforcement against providers who violate these two existing laws.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -In an effort to restore access and provide for public enjoyment of locations within the Moose-Wilson corridor while continuing to provide for protection of black bears feeding along the roadside, Grand Teton National Park managers have amended the closure of that road. As of the afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bayonne, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for conspiring with a criminal enterprise that engaged in illegal sports betting in New Jersey and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy is participating in the Tribal Energy Summit: A Path to Economic Sovereignty in partnership with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Indian Energy, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED ), and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Sept. 23-25, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) this week respectively authored draft legislation to strengthen and improve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The discussion drafts to be reviewed at a Health Subcommittee hearing next Thursday will strengthen enforcement against providers who violate these two existing laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Maura K. O’Donnell, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant was the owner of Water Street Landing, a restaurant in Lewiston, NY. Between 2006 and 2009, DiBernardo submitted tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service understating business revenues thereby evading payment of income tax. In addition, the defendant paid employees off the books and as a result failed to pay employment taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Mist Netting of Bats to be Cool Component in "Batty about Bats" Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Crowley, Louisiana, has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction of bank robbery. Kirk Stutes, 52, received a sentence of 120 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release. Stutes was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $700.00, a Special Assessment in the amount of $100.00. In addition, the Court ordered that $3,148.00 shall be paid through forfeiture of funds recovered from Stutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: Former Independence, Missouri, Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) this week respectively authored draft legislation to strengthen and improve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The discussion drafts to be reviewed at a Health Subcommittee hearing next Thursday will strengthen enforcement against providers who violate these two existing laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A St. Louis businessman, KENNETH HUTCHINSON, pled guilty to one count of bankruptcy fraud and admitted to lying about his income and assets in relation to his 2014 bankruptcy case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
