News from August 2016
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: On July 18, 2016, three individuals were convicted at trial for their participation in a fourteen defendant marriage fraud conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Mitch is on a mission to help find a cure for the rare form of bone cancer that took the life of his friend Zach Sobiech.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO SANCHEZ-REYES, also known as “Chino," 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a third man has been indicted for his role in a conspiracy that included at least 10 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., which resulted in a fourth suspect being fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that William Lovell Smith, 48, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of receiving and possessing aa destructive device, that is, Molotov cocktails, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 49 months by United States District Court ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Richard Gross, Winfield, MO, was sentenced today to 150 months in prison on multiple counts involving the trafficking of synthetic drugs. Additionally, as part of these convictions, the defendants have agreed to the forfeiture of assets and property totaling in excess of $6.5 million.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
Release: Dane International Commodities, Inc., a Philippine importer specializing in the supply of U.S. nuts, California raisins, other dried fruits and food ingredients, showcases its products to food franchises attending a marketing event in Manila organized by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H.- Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Derek Potocki, 31, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to an Indictment charging him with one count of aiding and abetting bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and 2.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Mitch is on a mission to help find a cure for the rare form of bone cancer that took the life of his friend Zach Sobiech.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DANIEL NOLAN DEVOR, age 41, of Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced today for conspiracy to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Sharon Grear, 47, of Hermanville, Tonya Grear, 29, of Jackson, and Pinkie Tyler, 30, of Jackson, have entered guilty pleas before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William H. Barbour in a case involving the filing of false federal tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Jerome R. McDuffie, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 80 months in prison, to be followed by a term of five years’ supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder cocaine and crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Donald R. Jordan, 26, of Galloway, Ohio pled guilty to possession of counterfeit money, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two senior engineering officers employed by an Italian shipping company admitted today they deliberately concealed their vessel’s discharge of oily waste into the sea, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND - John E. Fox, the owner of Premier Cru, a now-bankrupt wine shop based in Berkeley, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea agreement follows the filing of charges in June 2016 that the wine shop owner engaged in fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement regarding the FCC’s adoption today of its media ownership proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former mayor of Lawrence was charged in federal court Thursday with embezzling thousands of dollars from a food bank in Douglas County, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
