News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Enrique Lombrana-Perez has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, SC, to assaulting a federal correctional officer, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence accepted the guilty plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the nonpartisan watchdog to assess the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ability to complete the Yucca Mountain License Application (LA).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the nonpartisan watchdog to assess the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ability to complete the Yucca Mountain License Application (LA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: A former police officer was sentenced to more than five years in prison for illegally selling firearms to people he knew were felons, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Paul D. Tonko (NY-20) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) introduced the AQUA Act, which updates the Safe Drinking Water Act to significantly increase funding authorization levels for local communities with water infrastructure deficiencies. A complete section-by-section summary and full language of the bill are below.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Hercules E. Baker of Sumter, South Carolina entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States with Respect to Claims, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park. To ensure that these birds of prey can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AMANDA GAMBARDELLA, 26, formerly of Hartford and Cheshire, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Tonto National Monument will celebrate the National Park Service Centennial and Arizona Archaeology & Heritage Awareness Month by hosting its annual Heritage Days, March 12 and 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Paul D. Tonko (NY-20) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) introduced the AQUA Act, which updates the Safe Drinking Water Act to significantly increase funding authorization levels for local communities with water infrastructure deficiencies. A complete section-by-section summary and full language of the bill are below.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House of Representatives this week will consider commonsense, bipartisan legislation making reforms to strengthen Medicaid. H.R. 3716, the Ensuring Access to Quality Medicaid Providers Act, is composed of two...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - - On Feb. 24, 2016, Gregory Scott Alcala, 43, of Davenport, Iowa, appeared before the Honorable Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., and pleaded guilty to preparing and presenting a false tax return, wire fraud, and making a bomb threat in and affecting interstate commerce, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Kevin L. Walker, 26, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis, IL, on Feb. 26, 2016, to 57 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years supervised release, as well as the payment of a $150 special assessment, and a $400 fine, for his recent conviction for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former owner of a group of internet sports memorabilia businesses pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg, to a $2.5 million dollar fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Preston Brown, Sr., 51, of Woodland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 36 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute bath salts and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: The House of Representatives today unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to address the rising costs of disasters in the United States, reduce the toll of future losses, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster assistance capabilities and programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Crystal Watson, 35, of Barrington, New Hampshire, plead guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and to five charges relating to distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation that would help presidential candidates navigate the transition process and manage a smooth transition into the executive office. The Edward “Ted" Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2016
News Release: Contact: Joe Jeanette (402) 699-2067. United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska, Deborah R. Gilg, announced today at a press conference in North Platte, Nebraska the federal indictments of sixty people involved in a Methamphetamine conspiracy investigation in Central and Western Nebraska, and...
