News from April 2016
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 EPA 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 DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | April 27, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William J. Bratton, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), Angel M. Melendez, the Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: David Johnson Named Associate Executive Assistant Director for the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney=s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lihn Lam, age 45, formerly of Scranton, was sentenced today to 24 months imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik, in Scranton, for conspiracy related to the harboring and transporting of illegal aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO:A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,277,941 visitors to Ozark National Scenic Riverways in 2015 spent $53,886,200 in communities near the park. That spending supported 835 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $58,400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: David E. Garris II, 36, of Eldorado, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of 132 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute 39 grams of methamphetamine, announced James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 26, 2016, Shane M. Wibbels, age 39 of Pleasanton, Nebraska, was sentenced for making a false statement to a financial institution. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Wibbels to the custody of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Alhassane Ould Mohamed, also known as “Cheibani," a citizen of Mali, was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, for conspiring to murder a United States diplomat stationed in Niamey, Niger, in December 2000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Internet-Based Consumer Electronics Vendor Repays Over One Million Dollars to Resolve Civil Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Crespin, 43, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 13 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his armed bank robbery conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Chief Patrick Gallagher of the Santa Fe Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Laredo DTO Imported More Than 1,000 Kilos Of Heroin From Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Defendant possessed the child pornography at his former home in Nicholas County.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 42,146 visitors to Tumacácori National Historical Park in 2015 spent $2,413,400 in communities near the park. That spending supported 36 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2,905,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A previously-convicted husband and wife from Dallas, who admitted selling property the government had planned to seize in connection with a marijuana trafficking and money laundering investigation, have been sentenced to serve additional time in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to explore ways Congress can reform the business tax code to make it more globally competitive and to consider the findings of the Committee’s bipartisan business income tax working group...
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded House passage of legislation to combat ISIS’s trafficking of both Iraqi and Syrian cultural property, an operation that earns ISIS tens of millions annually. The legislation, Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (H.R. 1493), now heads to the President’s desk.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today began an experiment to test emergency response capabilities at the second busiest crossing between the ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $1.3 million to Raytheon BBN Technologies (BBN), Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop technology ...
