News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Dec. 12, 2016, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 38 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: “Today, a unanimous jury in Manhattan federal court affirmed that the protections of the U.S. Constitution extend into the walls of our prisons, including Rikers Island. For his brutal and heartless beating of 52-year-old Ronald Spear, a sickly Rikers inmate, and his lies to cover it up, Brian Coll now...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Monticello Field Office has approved an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail in the Indian Creek area northwest of Monticello, Utah. The BLM will assume responsibility for construction and maintenance of the trail in collaboration and coordination with San Juan County and partner groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch announced today that the Northern District of California collected $46,085,348.08 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $29,720,757.86 was collected in criminal actions and $16,364,590.22 was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Help ensure the future of the Hawaiian rainforest at the summit of Kīlauea volcano and volunteer for “Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, January through March 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Roads leading to Yosemite Valley to close this afternoon at 5:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman-elect Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his resignation.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Star Laundry Inc. Star Laundry Inc. 421 and 436 East 16th St. 421 and 436 East 16th St. Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson, New Jersey. Citations issued: On Dec. 7, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations against Brite Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Terry A.D. Strickland Added to the FBI’s List of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that five previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Dec. 14, 2016, by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on illegal re-entry charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A jury has found a 43-year-old Beaumont, Texas man guilty of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Blue Daniel Densmore, 39, and Avery Allen Erickson, 47, both of Boise, Idaho, were arrested yesterday on federal firearms and drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Tomorrow they make their initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale in the U.S. District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL HILARIO MARTINEZ, age 40, and JEANA MARIE MARTINEZ, age 33, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, each pled guilty to one count of EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1163 and 2, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), today announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging SHALOM LAMM, KENNETH NAKDIMEN...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman-elect Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his resignation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELBERT LLORENS, 24, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert A. Richardson in Hartford to a federal carjacking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Misused Victim-Investors’ Funds to Pay for Vacation Homes, Vehicles, a Chef and Other Personal Expenses.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Iran Sanctions Act becoming law...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A jury has found a 43-year-old Beaumont, Texas man guilty of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
