News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- Southwest Type 2 Incident Management Team #3 (Alan Sinclair, IC) arrived this afternoon. They will assume command of the fire at 6 am tomorrow morning. Today additional resources arrived to support the Fuller Fire. Approximately 200 personnel are currently assigned including 3 hotshot crews, one hand crew, 3 helicopters, 5 engines, one dozer, and 3 water tenders.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after again voting against a partisan measure that fails to combat the public health threat posed by the Zika virus in a responsible way and failed to advance last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: In Midland, four men are charged for scheming to steal an estimated $365,000 worth of diesel fuel announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 11, 2016, Ashley E. Kitchenakow (age: 28) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced by the Honorable William C. Griesbach to 9 years in prison and 5 years supervised release. Kitchenakow pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE Tenn., - July 14, 2016 - Nineteen additional persons have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with an on-going local and federal investigation addressing violent crime in the J.C. Napier public housing development, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: In Midland, four men are charged for scheming to steal an estimated $365,000 worth of diesel fuel announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing with stakeholders to discuss ongoing implementation of the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the nation’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representativespassed H.R. 5538, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2017, by a 231-196 vote. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: DANVILLE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of Raul Magallanes-Flores, who was previously convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 13, Shannon Higgins, age 37, a federal inmate was sentenced by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion in Scranton to 70 months of imprisonment for possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and for attempting to provide heroin to other inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Bryan Witherspoon, age 42 of Lowell, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 220 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release and fined $15,000 on one count of Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that GRIFFIN MICHAEL SKYLER TAYLOR, age 30, of Sun Valley, California, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1028A(1).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia - On May 28, 2016 the Portrait Gallery in the Second Bank of the United States reopened to the public after being closed for fourteen months for cleaning and conservation. Cleaning and conservation work was necessary because of a small fire in a mechanical unit in the basement that occurred in January 2015.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after the House passed his U.S. Financial System Protection Act (H.R. 4992 ) and Leader McCarthy’s Iran Accountability Act of 2016 (H.R. 5631 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: David and Kathryn McPeters sentenced for defrauding Social Security of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, the home of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, Long Island, will be hosting two events on Sunday, July 31, 2016 beginning at 1:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Anthony Parent, 23, of Milford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $7,000 in restitution to victims of his offense. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH DEL VALLE, an owner and partner of various investment companies, was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to 98 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges for operating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Former New Jersey Attorney General and Chairman of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners Pleads Guilty to Bribery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the status of Ivanpah and other federal loan-guaranteed solar energy projects on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.
