News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Johnathan Dewayne Mitchell, 38, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with one count of robbery affecting commerce. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: As part of the Administration's strategy to increase energy productivity and cut energy waste in our nation's buildings, today the U.S. Department of Energy recognized six organizations for their leadership in replacing and upgrading rooftop units as part of the Better Buildings Alliance Rooftop Unit...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: KEYSTONE, S.D. -Tuesday April 26 Mount Rushmore National Memorial will implement a prescribed burn to reduce accumulated slash piles in support of the park's fire management plan. The burns will begin at the south east park boundary. Continued snow on Wednesday through Friday may result in additional burning for the following three days conditions permitting.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering a free public webinar that will address the final report summarizing findings from the PSERC/NSF Executive Forum and Workshop on Physical and Cyber Infrastructure to Support the Future Grid, which assesses emerging research...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced George Joyner, III (36) to four years in federal prison for theft of government money and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered Joyner to pay $169,456.90 in restitution to the United States Department of the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Criminal justice scholars, practitioners and policy makers will convene to address reforms targeting some of the most pressing problems in our criminal justice system on Monday, June 6, 2016, at Concordia University School of Law in Boise. The one-day conference features Idaho Congressman Raul...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Weston, 36, of Portland, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, often referred to as crack cocaine. Weston entered a guilty plea to the charge in October 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: An Elyria man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a firearms violation, said Acting U.S. States Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Elyria Police Chief Duane Whitely.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Concluding a three-year investigation, authorities today arrested 11 defendants who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess - and, in some cases, distribute - child pornography.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - William Joshua Woodward, age 39, of Perkinston, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday, April 21, 2016, to one count of access with intent to view child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Mark Anthony Lowe, 63, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty today to charges of coercion and enticement of a child and penalties for a registered a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Defendants in multistate scheme stole foreign bank account information.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today offered a discussion draft of legislation to simplify one of the most complex areas of the tax code - capital depreciation rules - making it easier for businesses to invest in everything from trucks to computers.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the reported test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) by North Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the La Familia Gang, a national gang with a significant presence in Springfield and Holyoke, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Fidel Naranjo, 27, of Santa Fe, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a bank robbery charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Naranjo will be sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a citizen of El Salvador pleaded guilty Monday to transporting illegal immigrants for his own profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that EMIL RENSING, former chief digital officer at a premium entertainment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: BOISE - John Vernon McLeod, 36, of Payette, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. McLeod was indicted on September 9, 2015.
