News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Two inmates were sentenced on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III for their roles in the Adams County Correctional facility prison riot which took place on May 20, 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Andracos Marshall, a/k/a “Draco," age 42, of Bowie, Maryland, to 23 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; and money laundering...
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the below statement in response to the State Department naming former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ayrat Vakhitov as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Telesforo Lozano, 60, of Torreon, Mexico, was found guilty today of two federal drug charges. Following a two-day trial, Lozano was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of conspiring to distribute cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thomas Vitanovitz, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, plead guilty today to extortion of an alleged drug dealer while working as a Philadelphia Police Officer, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of TERRANCE MICHAEL PICK, 68, for receiving child pornography. PICK, who pleaded guilty on March 23, 2016, was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Indianapolis man convicted of illegal possession of a handgun and two assault-style semiautomatic rifles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis on Tuesday sentenced Misael Melendez, a/k/a Salao, 50, to 50 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Chief Judge Lewis also ordered Melendez to pay a $100 special assessment and a $2,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 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, along with several of her colleagues on the Senate HELP Committee, held a campus safety roundtable to discuss improving prevention and response polices to combat...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Bids on three oil and gas leases brought in nearly $28,000 at an auction the Bureau of Land Management held Tuesday in Billings.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An alarming series of tragic - and preventable - incidents in the greater Philadelphia area is prompting the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to call on the region's construction companies to ensure that their employees have and use proper equipment when required to protect them from work-related falls.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Countering the Virtual Caliphate: The State Department’s Performance." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today $26 million to help provide safe and sanitary housing for farmworkers in nine affordable rental communities in four states. The funding will support 439 rental units in California, Florida, Kansas and Texas. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will make the announcement later today during an address to the League of United Latin American Citizens' (LULAC) 87th annual national convention.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Eunice man pleaded guilty Tuesday to convincing a minor girl to send him sexually explicit pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - David L. Frisby, age 65, of Kiln, Mississippi, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for defrauding scrap metal brokerage firms out of more than $144,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: ABILENE - A Fort Worth, Texas, man, Robert Harris, 50, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of enticement of a minor and aiding and abetting, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Two inmates were sentenced on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III for their roles in the Adams County Correctional facility prison riot which took place on May 20, 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution, receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
