News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Two Kansas Men Charged for Attacking Somali Men Because of their Race and National Origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Two Malaysian nationals pled guilty to conspiring to smuggle wildlife today after they used mail parcels to smuggle five orangutan skulls and nine other protected species of wildlife, including bear claws and macaque skulls, into the District of Oregon.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Oneida, Tennessee:The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will provide assistance on Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7, for family members who wish to visit remote cemeteries and do minor clean-up of graves of their relatives.This assistance will be provided to the park cemeteries that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kulvir Singh Cheema, 55, of Ripon, was arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmond F. Brennan on bankruptcy fraud charges, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and CTIA, together with wireless providers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon announced today the “Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework " [PDF] to share information and advance wireless network resiliency before, during and after disasters and emergencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Omar Cantero Martinez, 31, and Armando Sotelo, 24, both of Dodge City, Kan., were charged with federal hate crimes for attacking three Somali men because of their race and national origin. Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, made the announcement.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The Ridge to Rivers partnership has released the draft trail plan that will guide development and management of the popular trail system over the next 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Event will take place from 10am - 2pm on Saturday, April 30th.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Shenandoah resident connected to a large-scale heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County during 2012 through September 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROBERT DURST, age 73, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Shane M. Mauger, 41, of Columbus, has agreed to plead guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to deprive persons of civil rights and federal program theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jimmy Odong, 26, of Portland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to committing four bank robberies in Portland. The charges arise from the robberies of University Credit Union on May 14, 2015; TruChoice Federal Credit Union on May 26, 2015; and CPort Credit Union and Bank of America, both on June 19, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A police officer employed by the Los Angeles Unified School District was taken into federal custody this morning after being named in an indictment that charges him with the attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The general manager of a La Puente garment factory has been found guilty of federal charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading off a marathon markup of 22 bills, the Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today unanimously passed H.R. 5050, the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016. The committee has a long, bipartisan tradition of working to enact pipeline safety reform into law. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) Team Reinvestigating a 15-Year-Old Cold Case in Louisiana.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), held a hearing today to examine the U.S. Department of Labor’s “persuader" rule. Finalized in March 2016, this partisan rule vastly restricts the long-standing “advice" exemption under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, imposing onerous and costly requirements on employers and forcing them to report virtually all contact with advisors on union-related matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Preparer Allegedly Fabricates Businesses Losses, Claims Fraudulent Credits In Order to Understate Her Customers’ Tax or Overstate their Refunds.
