News from August 2016
By USDA Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., led a bipartisan group of 47 Senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), expressing concerns with the Agency’s controversial proposed rule on retailer eligibility requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: United States Taxpayers Targeted By Cyber Criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -- An Ilion, New York man who portrayed himself on social media as a teenage boy to sexually exploit his own daughter, was sentenced today to serve 20 years in prison for his crimes, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ronnell A. Williams, 41, of Wheeling, West Virginia, pled guilty to distributing oxycodone in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “Commissioner Bratton has been a great leader of the finest police force in the world. For his strong stewardship of the NYPD during these challenging times for law enforcement, every New Yorker owes him a debt of gratitude. Over a long career, on both coasts, no one...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael G. Isaacson, age 34, of Albany, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two men were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford, Ill., on drug charges in related cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Michael Gavin Named Special Agent in Charge of Memphis Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Angel Sauzo-Martinez, age 40, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Sauzo-Martinez, a Mexican National, to 72 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal penal system. After his release from prison, if not deported, Sauzo-Martinez must serve a 5-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the White House Council on Environmental Quality releasing final guidance for federal agencies on how to consider the impacts of their actions on climate change in their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the White House Council on Environmental Quality releasing final guidance for federal agencies on how to consider the impacts of their actions on climate change in their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Charisma Royster, 25, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine, was sentenced to two years probation by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area is proposing to increase parking fees in the park. Parking fees would increase at both Sandy Hook and Riis Beach in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Charisma Royster, 25, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine, was sentenced to two years probation by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Greensboro, North Carolina, couple, who operated an online sales business, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and tax fraud charges announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that REBECCA BAYUO pled guilty today to charges related to her preparation and filing of false...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man who shot his way out when a gas station clerk tried to lock him in the store was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An airline passenger was charged with sexually touching a sleeping woman who did not know him aboard a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the White House Council on Environmental Quality releasing final guidance for federal agencies on how to consider the impacts of their actions on climate change in their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Albert Chavez, 53, of Acoma, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to robbing a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Grants, N.M.
