News from December 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today released 15 criminal and regulatory referrals the Select Investigative Panel has made to federal, state, and local authorities over the course of its investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 37-year-old resident of Sugar Land has entered a guilty plea to aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment yesterday afternoon charging David A. Hickman, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., with using fire to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce. Hickman is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on Jan. 3, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Energy Department today announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility. The facility will be constructed in Newport, Oregon, by the Northwest National Marine Renewable...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss -Demario Webster, 20, and Ira McGruder, 24, both from Jackson, Mississippi, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves for their roles in a 2014 carjacking, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - Services will be limited at the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites Dec. 27 due to the anticipated visit by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR), incoming Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today continued staff announcements for the 115th Congress. Mr. Walden announced earlier this month that Mike Bloomquist, Karen Christian, Peter Kielty, and Paul Edattel will continue to serve the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - At a combined plea and sentencing hearing yesterday, BURUNDI NACHELLE LOLLES, of Smyrna, Georgia, pleaded guilty to submitting a false income tax return to the IRS and was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy DeGiusti to serve 33 months in prison, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Arizona man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Bruce Kane, 62, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who previously resided in Ithaca, New York, was sentenced today to serve 97 months (8 years and 8 months) in prison and ordered to pay $8.9 million of restitution and more than $10 million of forfeiture for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew W. Vale.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison for Providing Material Support to Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Staten Island, New York, was charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY PAPROCKI, 33, of Ledyard, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joel Ibarra, Jr., 21, of Sunland Park, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Doña Ana County, N.M. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ibarra will be sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today released a Request for Information (RFI) for participation in the 2017 First Responder Electronic ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a new investment of $32 million to improve the health and resiliency of forest ecosystems where public forests and grasslands connect to privately-owned lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: A resident of Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and United States Attorney Billy Williams for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Proposed Settlement Preserves Movie Theatre Competition in 15 Local Markets and in Preshow Services and Theatre Advertising Markets The Department of Justice announced today that it will require AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. to divest theatres in 15 local markets, sell off most of its holdings and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice Tribal Access Program Will Continue to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data The Department of Justice announced today 11 tribes selected to participate in the expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program to provide federally recognized ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Settlement Requires Volkswagen to Offer to Buy Back Older Vehicles, and Spend $225 Million to Mitigate NOx Pollution. Volkswagen Will Also Repair Newer Vehicles to Comply With the Standards to Which They Were Certified.
