News from February 2016
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Elizabeth Linda Routh, area director for OSHA's Lubbock Area Office and Sandra Webb, executive director for the Associated General Contractors panhandle of Texas Chapter signing a two year alliance agreement at the AGC facility in Amarillo, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA: An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bankruptcy fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and structuring financial transactions, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Safya Roe Yassin, 38, of Buffalo, Missouri, was charged today with communicating threats of violence over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Minnesota Man Indicted for Dealing Firearms without a License.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 14 months of incarceration; three years supervised release and was ordered to pay $204,252.16 in restitution on his conviction of fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon National Park invites the public to join Charley Bulletts for a special hour long dark skies presentation at Mather Point Amphitheater on Feb. 26,2016 at 7:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KEVAHN THORPE, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for extorting a Connecticut resident last summer.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: History fans: it's time to get ready for a special High School Local History Smackdown! Not only is the competition in its 14thyear, the National Park Service turns 100 in 2016: this competition promises to have some questions about the history of the two national parks in our backyard, as well as the agency that manages them.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today announced that the roundtable kicking off the committee’s comprehensive concussion review has been rescheduled for Monday, March 14, 2016, at 2 PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Pursued Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of eight defendants on federal firearms and drug charges (see attached summary chart). Penalties for the various offenses range from 5 to 40 years’ imprisonment. The arrests are the result of a violent crime initiative being ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: As part of its 2016 National Park Service Centennial celebration, Morristown National Historical Park welcomes author David Veasey to its Washington's Headquarters Museum for an illustrated talk on his book, New Jersey's Colonial Architecture Told in 100 Buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Carl Gene Dunlap, 40, of Medford, Oregon, to 10 years in federal prison, following his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Dunlap’s 10-year sentence is the maximum allowed under federal law. Dunlap was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Used Credit Cards to Purchase More Than $400,000 in Gift Cards from Grocery Stores.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, President Obama signed into law legislation authored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) strengthening sanctions against North Korea. The legislation, the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (H.R. 757), passed the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that two Anchorage men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for assaulting a Deputy United States Marshal with a deadly and dangerous weapon while he was engaged in his official duties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County woman was sentenced to five years of probation, with five months of this sentence to be served on home incarceration, and ordered to pay $188,665 in restitution for a preparing fraudulent tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Maria Antoinette Martin, 64, of Chapmanville, previously pleaded guilty in October 2015 to the federal tax crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - After just over 3 hours of deliberations, a federal jury in Sherman found a Calvin, Oklahoma man guilty of committing Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act violations in connection with the shipment of an African Leopard trophy mount from Oklahoma to the Eastern District of Texas yesterday, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York attorney was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for defrauding two multi-national companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by fraudulently billing them for services that were never provided, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
