News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López today released the spending plan for $166.3 million provided to Reclamation in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016. The funds will go toward western drought response and rural water projects, among other important activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Terrence Victoria, 30, of Springfield, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 96 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The former controller of a company in Lenexa pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $135,000, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Muhammad Taylor, 32, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 30 months in federal prison on a felony conviction stemming from his involvement in a pill mill operation during parts of 2013-2014, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that James E. Nordhausen, age 51, of Ellicott, Maryland,.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - David Solomon, aka David Chityal, 39, of Budapest, Hungary, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: "I am pleased that ICAO reached an international consensus on a meaningful standard to foster reduction in CO2 emissions from aircraft. We are encouraged by this success and believe it puts us on a promising path to secure a robust market-based measure later this year. This is another example of the administration's deep commitment to working with the international community on policies that will reduce harmful carbon pollution worldwide."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Michael Yant, age 40, of Lexington, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. United States...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Registration is now open for two-week field research course.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Alfred Patterson, age 50, of Baltimore, Maryland, late last Friday, February 5, 2016, for robbing a drug dealer and using a gun during the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 46-year-old Galveston man has been ordered to federal prison for nearly 42 years for sexual exploitation of a child as well as possession and distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Michael Lee Martinez pleaded guilty Sept. 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: CEDARVILLE, Calif. - Topics affecting natural resources on public lands in northeast California and far northwest Nevada will be discussed, when the Modoc-Washoe Experimental Stewardship Steering Committee meets Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Bureau of Land Management Surprise Field Station, 602 Cressler St., in Cedarville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Rockford physician pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to making false statements in a bankruptcy case. LYNN Y. ZOIOPOULOS (also known as Lynn Shelton-Zoiopoulos), 60, now of Chicago, Ill., filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition on Aug. 11, 2009. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Timothy M. Stone, 36, of East Rochester, NY, who was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to an assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering activity, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Atencio Prosecuted Pursuant to “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Thursday, Feburary 11. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee Markup (click here to watch). 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. H.R. 2947 , the “Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2015": This bill is a product of the Judiciary Committee’s long-standing oversight of U.S. bankruptcy laws as well as the Committee’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elias Atencio, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 22 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on firearms charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Chief Patrick Gallagher of the Santa Fe Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Dylan Allen Jeffries, 26, of Clifton Forge, pleaded guilty today to charges of coercion or enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Mark Warner, D-Va., co-chairs of the Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group, released submissions responding to the working group’s policy options paper, released in December 2015.
