News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Alaska Man Charged With Conspiring to Provide Unlawful Services to Iran and International Money Laundering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Henry J. Flemister, age 26, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, and Kevin N. Bilheimer, age 57, of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Dec. 14, 2016, by a federal grand jury for heroin and crack cocaine trafficking violations.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on enactment of his bill, H.R. 6297, to extend the Iran Sanctions Act for a decade...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Mark Vega, 34, of Shillington, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment1 with Mail Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Vega obtained stolen identities and used the names, dates of birth, and social security numbers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Derrick Courtney Franklin, II, 29, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the crimes of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb of the Eastern District of California also ordered Franklin to pay restitution of $1,527.64 to victims of the offense. Franklin pleaded guilty on Aug. 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Shalom Lamm and Others Charged in Voter Fraud Scheme in Connection with a March 2014 Bloomingburg Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Treveric Speaks, age 41, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a series of armed robberies of wireless stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Three men were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with the sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Rodney Levon Davis, age 47, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2016, to robbery, and to using, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during the robbery of a fast food restaurant in Hyattsville.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office (SLFO) today released a proposed plan that would ensure public safety and protect cultural resources by restricting target shooting on an area in the Eastern Lake Mountains. In recent years, shooting incidents have threatened residential homes, school children, and visiting public in the area. Additionally, ancient rock art in the area has been irreparably damaged from shooting.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: As the new year approaches, forensic labs across the country are gearing up for a big change in the way they generate DNA profiles, the genetic fingerprints so useful in solving crimes and identifying the remains of missing persons. Forensic experts produce DNA profiles by extracting genetic material from blood or other biological evidence and analyzing sites in the DNA called markers.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing the significant gaps in verifying consumers accessing Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney, Beth Drake, announced today that two individuals from Charlotte, NC, Sahier Lavon Richardson, age 18, and Juran Maghi Witherspoon, age 18, have been charged federally for their roles in the pre-dawn break-in and theft of firearms from The Gun Shop in Simpsonville in October.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing the significant gaps in verifying consumers accessing Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Anchorage men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for trafficking in methamphetamine bound for Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow, Alaska).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Deputy Secretary Mike Connor announced the final Record of Decision for Glen Canyon Dam's Long-term Experimental and Management Plan (LTEMP). The Glen Canyon Dam’s reservoir is located in both Arizona and Utah. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: A Forest City, Iowa businessman was sentenced to 13 months in prison yesterday in federal court for failing to pay employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau for the Northern District of Iowa.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., as Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: (BUFFALO, N.Y - - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond C. Hopson, Lindsay R. Carrier, Jr., and Stephanie A. Costanzo, a Niagara Falls Police Officer, who has since resigned, were...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing the significant gaps in verifying consumers accessing Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs).
