News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Three Individuals Charged in $1 Billion Medicare Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Devils Tower will host "Adopt A Crag," an effort sponsored by the climbing community to clean up and maintain areas around the Tower. Celebrate Devils Tower by giving back to the resource during this centennial year of the National Park Service. Join rangers, climbers, community members, and the Access...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Investigates Alleged Terrorist Threat. Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office made the following announcement: Last week, the FBI began investigating an alleged ISIS terrorist threat based on information provided to a partner federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for internal water transfers within the Klamath. Project boundaries located in Klamath, Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The lands potentially receiving Klamath Project water under...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Incident Took Place in Broad Daylight.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: In Another Case, Defendant Earlier Pled Guilty to Federal Firearms Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont today announced federal criminal charges against eight individuals accused of making six different residences on a three-block stretch of Malletts Bay Avenue in Winooski, Vermont available for drug activity. These charges resulted from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jorge Rivas-Rivera, age 47, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to serve 60 months in prison after being convicted of distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Hyde Park - Roosevelt-Vanderbilt-Van Buren National Historic Sites announce changes pertaining to motor vehicle access. Entrance gates located at Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, and Roosevelt Farm Lane Trail on RT 9 and RT 9G will be subject to closure 30 minutes prior to sunset. The grounds will continue to remain open to pedestrians until sunset.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Aaron James Glende has been arraigned on federal charges of bank fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The indictment alleges he advertised criminal services on AlphaBay Market, a hidden services marketplace.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is honored to host a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 for fifteen candidates who will become United States citizens. The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services Seattle District Director, Anne Corsano, will swear in the new citizens at a special ceremony that will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the plaza area near the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center at Paradise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A White House briefing was held today on “Combating Religious Discrimination Today," a federal interagency community engagement initiative designed to promote religious freedom, challenge religious discrimination, and enhance enforcement of religion-based hate crimes. The initiative was launched earlier this year by the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Daniel Christensen, 42, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Information1 with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme that defrauded the South Street Headhouse District (“SSHD") while he was Chairman of the Board, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Natchitoches man was sentenced Wednesday to 211 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 95 months in prison for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: This afternoon, following a two week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against Gregorio and Angelo Gigliotti for their operation of a transnational cocaine trafficking operation that stretched from Italy, to Queens and to Costa Rica. Gregorio Gigliotti was also convicted...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: There is a crack in everything, Leonard Cohen sang; that's how the light gets in. Now a team led by scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has explored the properties of a promising class of materials with new capabilities that depend on those cracks. Their results could help open the way for practical applications from nonvolatile computer memory to quick-dimming windows.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton man was charged yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Each spring and summer female sea turtles--loggerhead, green, and occasional leatherback--make a brief trip to the shores of Cape Hatteras National Seashore to nest. Approximately two months later, under the cover of darkness, up to 150 hatchlings emerge from each deep sandy nest in a mad dash across the beach to reach the safety of the Atlantic Ocean.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the Oversight Committee, John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Committee on Judiciary, Stephen F. Lynch, and Hakeem Jeffries, introduced H. R. 5920, the Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act , to expand whistleblower protections to additional federal contractors and grantees.
