News from August 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on GDP in the second quarter of 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHRISTIE ROBINSON, 41, of Laplace, who previously pled guilty to a four-count Indictment charging her with false statements on tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Catrina Jefferson, 38, of Irvington, Alabama, was sentenced today to 15 months of imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade for conspiring to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. The judge...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today HARRY J. MOREL, JR., age 73, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(d)(1).

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant's Arrest Followed Recent DNA Analysis.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Kenyan National Represented Himself As U.S. Citizen On Employment Eligibility Verification Form.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: In support of the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthening partnerships with Tribal Nations and advancing tribal energy development, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy today announced the availability of up to $3 million to initiate the first steps toward developing and sustaining renewable energy and energy efficiency on tribal lands.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Pennsylvania resident who now lives in Mississippi pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Home Depot of over $45,000.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: National Manufacturing Co. Inc.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that GRAEGG L. HOLMES, age 43, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with wire fraud related to the 2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill. According to court documents, HOLMES admitted that he filed...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking comments on a draft environmental assessment on a proposal to add new non-motorized trails to the Arkansas Hills and Methodist Mountain Trail Systems outside of Salida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with robbing three financial institutions: the East Cambridge Saving Bank and Naveo Credit Union in Cambridge and Rockland Trust in Allston.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: The Defendant Used Call Centers in Canada, Thailand, and China to Steal Investors’ Money.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced a resolution expressing strong support for closer economic and commercial ties between the United States and the United Kingdom following the decision of the people of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today said the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) first responsibility in resolving the newly announced Navajo Nation lawsuit over the 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Colorado must be to make the Navajo community whole and mitigate financial risk to Navajo tribal members. Grijalva urged EPA officials to consider a settlement as the best and fastest way to protect the interests of the Navajo Nation and the agency itself.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child, distributed child pornography, and received child pornography was convicted by a jury on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, after a four-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lance Reynolds, 33, of Columbus, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of racketeering conspiracy in connection with a case involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Aug. 16, 2016, Kyle W. Oberg, 40, Smithton, IL, pled guilty to a three-count Superseding Indictment charging him with two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor (Counts 1 and 2) in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A 4th grade classroom assistant at a Lawrence public school was indicted today in connection with an undercover operation involving the distribution of kilogram-quantities of cocaine and thousands of oxycodone pills.