News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Darion Haynie, age 26, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced for his conviction for being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm. Senior United States District Court Judge sentenced Haynie to five years of probation. While on probation, Haynie will be required to serve six months on home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced the sentencing yesterday of JAMES SMITH, a/k/a “Heavy D," to 34 years in prison in connection with the 2011 murder of Danny Ulerio Lora (“Lora") during an attempted drug robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 11 people are in custody following an enforcement operation in two separate, but related cases involving a heroin trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently completed a multi-year effort to upgrade its online drilling permit processing system. The new internet-based module will help the BLM reduce permit processing timeframes by 50 percent, while also increasing the efficiency and transparency of the drilling permit review and approval process.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Park staff invites the public to celebrate 100 Years of the National Park Service with upcoming events on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. Day time activities will be held at the Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station, on B Street in downtown Talkeetna. At 12:30 pm, a clean-up along the Susitna River will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Allen Langlois, 49, of Newport, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, for possessing child pornography. According to United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice, the Court imposed a sentence of 42 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Mayor of South El Monte was charged today with bribery for accepting money from a contractor doing business with the city, as well as accepting a bribe during an FBI undercover operation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: PISCATAWAY, Md. - The National Park Service and Maryland Department of Natural Resources will co-host a second informational meeting about the Fort Washington Marina operational transfer. Please join us at the Accokeek Public Library on September 19 from 7 to 8 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a basic model aimed at helping researchers better understand the Internet of Things (IoT) and its security challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Aaron Rouse Named Special Agent in Charge of the Las Vegas Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Speaking before a diverse general aviation audience at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta underscored the importance of government and industry collaboration and highlighted a number of initiatives that are making general aviation safer and more efficient.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging KENDALL J. SULLIVAN, 50, of Stamford, with three counts of making threatening communications online.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: On July 22, 2016, A Romanian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $905,901.00 for his involvement in a conspiracy to defraud a financial institution and possessing device making equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 11 people are in custody following an enforcement operation in two separate, but related cases involving a heroin trafficking conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is examining the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) implementation of the transitional reinsurance program created under section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Smith, 35, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with eight counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to distribute the Schedule I controlled substance heroin and the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: OSHA cites Great Southern Peanut for combustible dust, improper machine
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three related indictments were returned today charging 17 Fresno residents with firearms and drug trafficking offenses, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho received bonus bids totaling $352,427 for eight parcels covering 9,243 acres in Payette County, Idaho, at the oil and gas lease sale held July 27, 2016 at the BLM-Idaho State Office in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Michael Johnson, a former resident of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Staci M. Yandle to 360 months in federal prison for one count of conspiracy to commit...
