News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: JEFFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Henley, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Bicameral Leaders Question Whether Critical Medicaid Dollars Have Been Accurately Spent WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt seeking answers to help Congressional leaders and state officials better...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: JEFFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Henley, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the terrorist attack in Berlin...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Indiana Man Arrested and Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Citizenship for Failure to Disclose Alleged Crimes Committed in Bosnia and Military Service During Bosnian Conflict.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Kendrick, who was convicted by a federal jury of the murders of Francisco Santos and Ryan Cooper, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute large quantities of illegal narcotics, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Providers Conference held in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, 2016, brought together an array of federal government agencies and state, tribal, and local representatives who serve Alaska Natives. As contractors to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, we attended this conference, in part to conduct interviews on the challenges to developing renewable energy in Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Christopher A. Hutchinson, 28, of Cushing, Maine was arrested today and charged by indictment in U.S. District Court with Seaman’s Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DAVID W. KENT, the founder of professional networking website Oilpro.com...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) released the following statement after President Obama signed H.R. 6450, the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016, into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Friday, the President signed H.R. 6452 into law. The “Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act" implements the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean, and the amendments to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, announced today that they have reached an agreement with Princeton University to resolve a compliance review initiated in May 2014 regarding Princeton’s treatment of students with mental health disabilities and its policies and practices related to requests for reasonable modifications, withdrawals, and leaves of absences.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman pleaded guilty Monday to the sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: On Dec. 13, 2016, the National Governors Association (NGA) announced the selection of Kentucky, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington to participate in an NGA Center for Best Practices Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization. The goal of the project is to position states for long-term success...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Rosciti Construction, Wallace Construction, four senior officers improperly sought reimbursement of funding reserved for minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Benjamin Bolton, 32, of Glendale, Colorado, who was convicted of transmitting interstate communications containing threats to injure the person of another was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Ketchum, ID - The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are announcing the extension of the scoping period for the proposed wilderness management plan for the Hemingway-Boulders and White Clouds Wilderness areas. “A wilderness management plan guides the preservation, management, and use of wilderness...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: North Carolina Owner of Tax Preparation Business Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Josiah Hutton (60, Winter Haven) with concealment of assets and embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the nomination of Rep. Mick Mulvaney as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
