News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man was sentenced Tuesday to two years on federal probation during which he is banned from hunting for stealing a tractor and hunting in Kansas in violation of the federal Lacy Act, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, he was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, and $6,894 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: A former police officer with the Port St. Lucie Police Department pled guilty yesterday to multiple federal child exploitation charges before United States District Court Judge Robin L. Rosenberg in Fort Pierce, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Wendell, North Carolina man was sentenced to 20 months in prison today following his plea of guilty to commit theft of government funds, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of the Justice’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the Department of Education’s proposed rule to address disparities in special education and disciplinary practices, such as suspensions and expulsions. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Ericson Vargas Cardona, a/k/a “Sebas," led La Oficina de Envigado,.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An Easthampton man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with distributing cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Man Receives 60 Months, Woman Receives 32 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: DANVILLE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced that a local man pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Danville to drug and gun charges.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that a continuance referendum will be conducted among eligible domestic (U.S.) manufacturers and importers of softwood lumber from August 1 through Aug. 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Former California Attorney Sentenced to 60 Months for His Role in International Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement after the White House unveiled its roadmap for closing the U.S. military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Butler County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months imprisonment, to be followed by ten years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) today wrote to the Administration to request information about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) violation of law and illegal use of the taxpayers’ money in promoting its recent Waters of the United States rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who recruited churches into a $4.2 million mortgage scheme that defrauded Broadway Federal Bank has been sentenced to serve one year and one day in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: What better way to enjoy a hot summer day than to be paid $11.30 per hour to sit by a swimming pool? Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area invites interested candidates who want to become a lifeguard to apply online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced that ALEXANDER EDWARD HEYING, 33, who was sentenced last month to serve 140 months in prison after being convicted in after trial November 2014 of conspiracy to distribute several tons of marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ruben Nieto, 45, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court yesterday afternoon to 120 months in prison for his conviction for distributing child pornography. He will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence. Nieto was ordered to pay $1,000 to each of the two victims whose images were used in the child pornography distributed by Nieto. Nieto also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Inspection site 2732 North 15th Street, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - More than 160 sixth graders from Rim Country Middle School in Payson, Arizona will help Tonto National Monument staff plant a cultivar and pollinator garden March 2 and 3 in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial.
