News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial Closed on Feb. 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eric Sears, 48, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Nancy E. Campany Falsified Records and Withheld Payment on Government Contracts.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's efforts to protect workers from the hazards of chemicals, the agency plans to issue new guidance on how to apply the Weight of Evidence approach when dealing with complex scientific studies. On Feb. 16, OSHA will begin accepting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement upon announcing a second Committee hearing examining the Flint, MI water crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Chairman announced a hearing with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to examine the Flint water crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (CVS) has agreed to pay $8 million to the United States to resolve allegations that its Maryland pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by dispensing controlled substances pursuant to prescriptions that were not issued for a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A disbarred Somerset attorney was convicted by a federal jury yesterday on fraud charges arising out of his promotion of investments in a Fall River-based company.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today applauded President Obama for designating three new national monuments in California to protect Native American artifacts and historical sites and to enhance the region’s climate resiliency. The sites - Mojave Trails National Monument, Sand to Snow National Monument and Castle Mountains National Monument - each contain important links to tribal culture and history and will protect vital natural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Augusta, Ga: Yesterday, Jason Baron Beard, the former Fire Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau, a division of the Augusta Fire Department, was convicted by a federal jury on six counts of extortion under color of official right and one count of attempted extortion under color of official right. United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall presided over Beard’s four-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Bristol, Tennessee man, previously convicted of methamphetamine charges, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: One Victim, 62, Was Attacked While Delivering Newspapers; Other Victim Was Attacked While Delivering Food.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Isaac Dillard Wilson, 35, of Tallahassee, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison today for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was structured so that 84 months (seven years) would run consecutively to state prison sentences, which Wilson is already ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ravi Singit, 41, of Rockville, Md., has been sentenced to 28 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a charge of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the Middle District of Florida for calling two mosques located in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to firebomb the mosques and shoot their congregants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Ippolito, Jr., who handled the case, stated that Quinones fraudulently obtained the credit/debit card numbers of actual people and then encoded counterfeit cards with the information illegally obtained. The defendant then used the counterfeit cards to purchase merchandise at Tops Markets stores in the Towns of Hamburg and East Aurora.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House passed House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) legislation to toughen sanctions on North Korea. The legislation, North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (H.R. 757), now heads to the President’s desk.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Another week has passed, and three more defendants have been charged by this Office with producing or receiving child pornography. A 14 year old girl murdered in Virginia. These and other cases share the common trait of alleged predators luring and manipulating children over social media.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: According to SelectUSA, the energy industry is the third largest in the United States, representing more than $700 billion in investment potential over the next two decades. Tribes looking to capitalize on this market trend have an opportunity to learn from tribal energy and power industry experts at the Explore Your Energy Markets webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
