News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Seven New Jersey MS-13 Members Sentenced to Prison for Racketeering-Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of any upcoming wet or winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash generated from several fuels reduction projects and hazard tree removals. Slash from these projects has been cut and piled by park fire crews and contractors during the last two years and are now dry enough to burn.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: The 47th Annual LBJ Tree Lighting will be held on Sunday, Dec. 18th, 2016 at 6 p.m., at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site. This tradition was started 47 years ago in the Hill Country community by President and Mrs. Johnson. This is a memorable family evening for all to experience the heritage...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees handed down lengthy prison terms ranging from 106 to 135 months to five methamphetamine traffickers, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad has announced that on December 5, 2016, Thomas C. Balsiger (63) of El Paso, Texas, was convicted of 12 felony offenses relating to his role in devising and executing a wide-ranging fraud scheme involving retail coupons.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised committee passage of H.R.1150, the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act. The committee-approved legislation seeks to advance religious freedom through enhanced diplomatic and foreign assistance efforts, including improved training for foreign service officers and greater flexibility for responding to cases of religious persecution.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Mark Warner, D-Va., co-chairs of the Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group applauded the introduction of S. 3504, the Creating High-Quality...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - The National Park Service Pacific West Region has more than 220 seasonal job openings for the summer of 2017 located in more than 14 parks across the Pacific Northwest.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on U.S.-India relations at a full Committee hearing this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rideout Health will pay the United States $2,425,000 to settle the federal claims of alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act by three of Rideout Health’s facilities in Yuba and Sutter Counties: Rideout Memorial Hospital, Fremont Medical Center, and Feather River Surgery Center, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today issued a Committee staff report detailing the practices of concurrent and overlapping surgeries where lead doctors at teaching hospitals perform multiple surgeries at the same time. The report,...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men have been sentenced to federal prison following convictions of conspiring to traffic in counterfeit Viagra and Cialis and introducing adulterated and misbranded prescription drugs into interstate commerce, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Martez Alando Gurley, 41, and Victor Lamar Coates, 47, admitted they each trafficked more than 10,000 counterfeit tablets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laverne Palmer, a/k/a Poogaloo, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci to committing multiple bank robberies. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A stockbroker and operator of a $1.4 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard Voorhees today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Charles Caleb Fackrell, 37, of Booneville, N.C....
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man was sentenced today to a total of 10 years in federal prison for carjacking and a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. David Allen Young, 24, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking and one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Young was sentenced to 10 years on each count and the sentences will be served concurrently.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the investment commitments attached to the recently approved Partial Consent Decree in the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel" settlement as well as the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) role in implementing the settlement’s terms.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part of the San Joaquin River Restoration Program, the Bureau of Reclamation has made available the Final Environmental Assessment/Initial Study and Finding of No Significant Impact for a new turnout and pipeline to facilitate a 10-year transfer and exchange of recaptured San Joaquin River Restoration Flows to Red Top.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ranking Members Bobby Scott (D-VA), Sander Levin (D-MI), and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) of the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce respectively, made the following joint statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order to delay the consideration of House v. Burwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy A. Yeigh, 28, of Camden on Gauley, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court today for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
