News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Upper Sacramento River Anadromous Fish Habitat Restoration Project.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Detroit Free Press ran an op-ed by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, titled “What does accountability mean to Snyder?"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joyce Abrams, 75, of Willingboro, NJ, was charged by Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme involving the USDOT Disadvantaged Business Program and work performed on the federally funded Girard Point Bridge project and at the federally funded 30th Street Station, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) highlighting the stark difference...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Wyatt was star in reality TV show from 2011 to 2012 on the Discovery Channel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that TED HAKEY, JR., 48, of Meriden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to a federal hate crime offense stemming from his firing shots into the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 23-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been convicted of drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Edgar Rodriguez, 26, of San Diego, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Rodriguez will be sentenced to 54 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. ordered Mateo Meraz, 42, of Rockford, Illinois and leader of a drug ring responsible for trafficking cocaine to the Charlotte area to serve 97 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Four Mexican nationals made their initial appearances this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging them with methamphetamine trafficking offenses. All four remain in federal custody pending preliminary hearings and detention hearings which have yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote the Corrections and Recidivism Reduction Act (H.R. 759) to reform the federal prison system, strengthen public safety, enhance prison security, provide inmates the help they need, and protect civil liberties. This legislation is one of many bills that have been approved by the House Judiciary Committee as part of its bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christina Scaringi, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Inspector General (“HUD-OIG"), announced the unsealing of a Complaint against the property manager, CARL IMMICH...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Physician, whose Medical License was Revoked in Dec. 2012, Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) applauded Senate passage of H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act. The measure, which was authored in the Senate by Finance leaders, Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), authorizes U.S. Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Toms River, New Jersey, was indicted today for accepting thousands of dollars in cash bribes in exchange for referring his patients to two lab companies that performed blood and DNA testing, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Convcted at Trial of Illegal Drugs, Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Margaret A. Hovan, 67, of Brooklyn, for theft of government funds, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of Goodwill Industries of Houston Inc. and another person have been taken into custody following the return of a 15-count indictment involving a wire fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Gun, Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Oxycodone Seized from Office at One Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kurt Smith, age 50, formerly of Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today and Patrick Russell, age 50, of LeRaysville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Feb. 10, 2016, by U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik in Scranton, for drug related offenses.
