News from December 2016
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on his vote against the continuing resolution, which did not address expiring tax provisions on clean energy investment, short-line rail production, college tuition, mortgage debt forgiveness tax relief or private mortgage insurance deductibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Anthony L. Burfoot, 48, of Norfolk, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to obtain property under color of official right, obtaining property under color of official right, and perjury. Burfoot is the current Norfolk City Treasurer and a former Vice Mayor of Norfolk and City Councilman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Butler, 42, of Buffalo, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography subsequent to a prior conviction. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Wilson, 29, formerly of Hamburg, NY, was successfully returned from Vietnam and arraigned this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Butler, 42, of Buffalo, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography subsequent to a prior conviction. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Wesley Michael Woodyard, 65, most recently of Dallas, appeared in federal court this afternoon and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, to one count of wire fraud stemming from his scheme to defraud Ace European Insurance Company (ACE) of more than $4.6 million from approximately 2002 through 2013. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Warren Bibbs, 34, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 90 months on charges involving the shooting of an off-duty security guard in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) repatriated a page from a 14th century manuscript and a 19th century Carelli painting to the government of Italy at a ceremony Friday at the Italian Embassy in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Glenn Bartley, 56, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for multiple federal stalking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Western Area Power Administration's Security Upgrades Project. The proposed project would authorize WAPA to install security upgrades at Reclamation’s Tracy Substation Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant and Six Co-Defendants Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC) commemorates Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, the same day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, praised the final passage of S. 612, the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, which passed with a strong bipartisan vote of 78-21 and includes a number of provisions integral to Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today on the Senate floor, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted the Committee’s bipartisan leadership and ability to “produce results.".
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement denouncing the Trump Transition Team for reportedly requesting U.S. Department of Energy officials identify employees and contractors who have taken part in international climate talks over the last five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Wesley Michael Woodyard, 65, most recently of Dallas, appeared in federal court this afternoon and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, to one count of wire fraud stemming from his scheme to defraud Ace European Insurance Company (ACE) of more than $4.6 million from approximately 2002 through 2013. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Richard Santiago, age 56, who was an inmate at the U.S. Administrative Maximum Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday to the first degree murder and murder by a life prisoner of a fellow ADX inmate before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn. Immediately after the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Two South Florida residents charged with conspiring to misbrand and sell expired medical devices, Gastric Banding Systems, for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former federal employee has been sentenced in federal court for using stolen money order receipts in a fraud scheme to avoid paying his medical bills.
