News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Douglas Burt, 20, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 204 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on a second degree murder charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Update on Investigation of 1971 Hijacking by D.B. Cooper.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to protecting America’s critical infrastructure, U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall today announced new funding to strengthen and protect the nation’s electric grid from cyber and physical attacks. The Energy Department...
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement in response to today’s ruling on the South China Sea arbitration case...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform overwhelmingly passed two bipartisan bills to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform overwhelmingly passed two bipartisan bills to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada woman was convicted by a federal jury today for her role in a drug trafficking ring that supplied between 150 and 250 pounds of methamphetamine annually to the Jersey City, New Jersey, area from 2004 through 2014, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on H.R. 5406 (Rep. Kristi Noem, R-SD), the Helping to Ensure Accountability, Leadership, and Trust in Tribal Healthcare Act (HEALTTH Act), highlighting the need to reform healthcare in Indian Country. The bill would improve access to tribal healthcare by reforming a range of medical care and administrative deficiencies within the Indian Health Service’s (IHS).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: The U.S., over the last few years, has seen the beginning of a major transformation in the way medical care is paid for. This country is moving away from an old system - fee for service - which opened the till for every visit, every test, and every procedure in a doctor’s office or hospital. Today the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - George R. Hilts, Jr., age 48, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to serve 60 months in prison after being convicted of distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN TODD WILLIAMS, a/k/a “JT," a/k/a “Joe Steele," was convicted for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a nationwide debt collection scheme that defrauded more than 6,000 victims throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant is also charged with operating Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Victor Lopez, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to ten months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gregory Owens, 59, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 20 years plus life in prison for interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford-based company was sentenced today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston for willfully violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, resulting in the death of an employee at the company’s facility in South Beloit, Ill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, ZHAQWAUN JEVONTAE GARY, 22, pled guilty to Possession of an animal for the purpose of participation in a fighting venture and aiding and abetting. On April 5, 2016 his...
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced that he has called on governments around the world to respect and abide by the decision of the Arbitral Tribunal related to China’s claims in the South China Sea. In a letter sent to more than 100 capitals around the world, Rep. Engel underscored the importance of upholding international law and ensuring that all countries play by the same rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Five current and former employees of one of the nation’s leading proxy solicitation firms were charged today with conspiring to bribe an employee of a prominent proxy advisory firm to obtain confidential information about how the advisory firm’s clients had voted on numerous shareholder proposals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The founder of MS-13 in Massachusetts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
