News from July 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) decision to release documentation for the Vehicle-to-Vehicle Public Key Infrastructure (V2V PKI) initiative proposed by the agency. The documentation was published in the Federal Register on Thursday following the committee’s urging that the information be made public.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Bayfield, WI - Severe thunderstorms and associated high winds that occurred during the early hours on Thursday, July 21, caused widespread storm damage. Fortunately, all campers are accounted for and safe, although there were some close calls.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordofSuccess, President Obama today signed sweeping legislation to fight the nation’s opioid epidemic. The legislation includes over a dozen bills passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee. Full committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Andrew Heineman, 30, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged yesterday by Information1 with multiple counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that in April 2015 through August 2015, Heineman stole money from his employer, Genji Sushi, by issuing unauthorized...
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: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - To keep visitors and employees safe as Tropical Storm Darby approaches Hawai'i Island, park officials will close all backcountry areas and certain roads in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, effective 5 p.m. today, Friday, July 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Ryan Lannen, 34, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 78 months in prison, to be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release, for two counts of distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Hector Roman, 30, of New Britain, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Monica Vaughn, 42, of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Vaughn was also ordered to pay a $1000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alphonso Roberts, 32, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder while armed for killing a man earlier this year outside a public library, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Michael Boxler, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) accounting and management of natural gas emissions on onshore federal lands. Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced a federal indictment charging SCOT MCNAMARA, 56, for embezzlement and theft of labor union assets.[1] MCNAMARA is expected to appear before Magistrate Judge Steven E. Rau in United States District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a previously convicted felon from Redlands who attempted to distribute over three pounds of methamphetamine and illegally possessed various firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun and an AK-47-type rifle without a serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Christian C. Winchel, 49, of Rockwall, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve a total of 50 years in federal prison, and pay more than $1.4 million in restitution, following his guilty plea to multiple child pornography offenses involving prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Preferred Imaging, LLC, (Preferred Imaging), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, has agreed to pay $3,510,000 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid for services performed without proper medical supervision in violation of the False Claims Act and the Texas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Alison Ramsdell Selected to Spearhead New Section.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced today in federal court to 21 months in prison for mail theft and credit card fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JARVIS WHEELER, age 28, of New Orleans, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal money orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield couple was charged in U.S. District Court in Springfield today with additional crimes of sex trafficking in connection with operating a prostitution business advertised as Sinful Innocence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Caddo Parish Commissioner Michael Dwayne Williams was sentenced to 14 months in prison for stealing from a nonprofit meant to help at-risk youth.
