News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Gladys Maria Pena Dominguez pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in an illegal scheme to use stolen personal identifying information to file false federal income tax returns and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OLVIN CASTILLO-CRUZ, age 34, pleaded guilty today to a one count indictment that charged him with illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. joined Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, Armed Services ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for child sex trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) was named Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert J. Strach, 54, of Akron, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Carol-Lisa Gutman, age 62, of Delmar, New York, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison after a jury found her guilty earlier this year of conducting a 15-year fraud scheme in which she received about $429,000 in federal disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Casey Swain, 38, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER CONDI, age 38, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 180 months and 5 years supervised release for two counts of FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced a proposed rule to further facilitate implementation of the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009. The proposed rule provides standards for a coordinated approach to the management of paleontological resources on lands managed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Drug ring conspired to sell heroin out of a retail storefront in Newburgh, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: FBI Phoenix Seeks Packing Pigeon Bandit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Mr. Speaker, in June of 2007, this body passed and the President subsequently signed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act. Since that time, the Department of Justice and cold case advocates have reviewed hundreds of cases in a search for justice and a sense of closure for the families of those who fell victim to racial violence in one of the most tumultuous periods of this nation’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES BRODERICK III, 58, of New Milford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a federal extortion charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), incoming Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Implications of Partial Repeal of the ACA through Reconciliation report issued by the Urban Institute this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a three-year, multi-million-dollar fraud scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Earlier today, Chairman Bill Shuster published a new blog on the Medium platform to argue in support of the Water Infrastructure Investments for the Nation (WIIN) Act and its Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) title.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: San Francisco, CA - On December 6, 2016, Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) board member Captain Eric Takakjia presented San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s 1907 steam tug Hercules with the SSHSA’s 2016 Tugboat of the Year award. Superintendent Kevin Hendricks accepted the award on behalf of the Park at a ceremony near the Hercules gangway on Hyde Street Pier.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Mayor of Gurabo, Puerto Rico, Arrested for Public Corruption.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The House of Representatives today approved its amendments to the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System Act of 2016 (S. 2971) by a vote of 405-7. This critical legislation to assist America’s first responders now heads back to the Senate for approval.
