News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Hamilton, Ohio, man was sentenced today to life in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis of the Central District of Illinois and Special Agent in Charge Sean Cox of the FBI’s Springfield, Illinois, Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Gernain Jackson (33, Duval County) has pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2016, before United States District Judge Paul G. Byron.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, July 30th and 31st, visitors are invited to witness the power of field artillery that defended the Union garrison during the Siege of 1862. Harpers Ferry NHP’s Living History staff will present artillery demonstrations at 1, 2, and 3 p.m., on the battle which led to General Stonewall...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department announced today it is investing $19 million to improve the efficiency of our nation’s homes, offices, schools, hospitals, restaurants and stores. These projects will develop advanced building technologies that will help American consumers and businesses save money on their utility bills, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Celebrate a Centennial of Campfires at the C&O Canal Great Falls Tavern.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Anthony Elton Cook was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison based upon his plea of guilty to charges arising from possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and his unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - John P. Howe, Jr., 34, of Troy, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a sentence of 78 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Laquitta S. Brackins has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud by defrauding a cell phone insurance provider. Brackins, along with a co-conspirator, filed thousands of false insurance claims on cell phones that did not belong to them and received over $1.6 million worth of cell phones from those claims.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: This week, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Brownfields Authorization Increase Act (H.R. 5782) to boost funding to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites across the country.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Eliot Engel (NY-16), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after introducing a bill to strengthen international cooperation and support freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Took $3.6 Million in “Commissions" in Ponzi Scheme That Caused Losses of More Than $150 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Washington-According to a lawsuit the United States filed in April, a Birmingham, Alabama, tax return preparer continually and repeatedly prepared federal income tax returns that understated her clients’ liabilities or overstated their refunds. Now a federal court in Birmingham has permanently barred her from preparing tax returns for others and it has ordered her to give the United States a list of her customers since 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report out today on The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its oversight of the selling of radioactive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Alexander Robert Xavier, 51, of Jensen Beach, Florida, was found guilty on July 14, 2016, of defrauding federal agencies by issuing fraudulent bonds to insure government construction projects.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 320,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dusty Chavez, 23, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 248 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on a second-degree murder charge. Chavez’s co-defendant, Douglas Burt, 20, also a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, was sentenced to 17 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release on July 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - Twelve defendants have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed today, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the San Angelo, Texas, area, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dylan Henry Ritter, 36, of Gardendale, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria, and Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jude Schulte, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Schulte’s conviction was based on his June 24, 2014 guilty plea to a felony information charging him with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has announced the award of three contracts totaling $3.66 million to fund the research and development (R&D) of privacy-enhancing technologies that better defend personally identifying information and protect privacy in cyber space.
