News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury late Tuesday convicted three men and one woman from Los Angeles County of conspiring to participate in the racketeering activities of the Florencia 13 criminal street gang (F13 Gang), as well as of related drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Sean Hyatt Anthony, 41, of Biloxi, MS was sentenced to probation for conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and honest services wire fraud by United States District Judge Keith Starrett in U.S. District Court in Gulfport today announced United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Wednesday, July 13, to examine the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The hearing, titled “Medicare Access and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled, “Expanding U.S. Digital Trade and Eliminating Barriers to U.S. Digital Exports" on Wednesday, July 13, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: “The House was originally scheduled to take up this bill tomorrow. But there was a hole. A hole created by their refusal to consider meaningful legislation to address gun violence in this country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Loose Creek, Mo., sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Christopher Michael Salisbury, age 38, of Long Beach, California, formerly of Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSEPH POUNDS, age 47, of Bogalusa, was sentenced today for three counts of selling oxycodone tablets to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Oxycodone is a prescription-only Schedule II controlled substance and a highly addictive and abused opioid drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Reginald Barton, age 32, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to a federal firearm charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that 19 small businesses will receive nearly $3.3 million in grants to spur U.S. innovation and competitiveness through federally funded research and development.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding today’s entry into force of the expanded Information Technology Agreement (ITA). The expanded ITA updates the 1996 agreement, which eliminated tariffs for information technology products under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. The agreement adds new IT products not contemplated or manufactured in the late 1990s.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Sean Hyatt Anthony, 41, of Biloxi, MS was sentenced to probation for conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and honest services wire fraud by United States District Judge Keith Starrett in U.S. District Court in Gulfport today announced United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was tackled by a security guard while making his escape pleaded guilty in federal court today to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Defendant Was on Supervised Release at Time of the Shooting.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the administration’s new sanctions targeting dictator Kim Jong Un and others responsible for horrific human rights abuses in North Korea...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: From early August through October, Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) will replace a failed corrugated metal pipe culvert underneath the Cross Marin Trail at Jewell Creek. The culvert is in disrepair and has a decayed bottom affecting fish passage at this location. MMWD’s Nicasio water transmission line, located above the failing culvert, is also at risk and could be damaged if the culvert fails.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Whiskeytown needs your help!. The National Park Service is looking for friendly and dedicated volunteers to assist with answering the kayak reservation line and making reservations. Kayak reservations volunteers are scheduled on a specific day of the week, which is consistent from week-to-week, from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Omer Gur, 36, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to his leadership of a visa fraud conspiracy involving over 140 foreign workers from Israel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Defendant shot and killed store clerk during robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has released a Decision Record on a management plan for dog use on the Fort Ord National Monument. Under the plan, dogs will have established off-leash opportunities on clearly marked roads. Dogs must be on leash in all other areas at all times.
