News from July 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Perez: We are writing to urge the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to promulgate a comprehensive workplace violence prevention standard to protect workers in health care and social service settings. We support the petition for rulemaking that was recently submitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to operate an interstate sex trafficking business, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Following a seven-day trial, a jury returned a verdict today against James P. Griffin, 71, of Cazenovia, finding him guilty of all 23 counts of mail and wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Quinton Darnell McLean, age 21, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty in U.S District Court in Greenbelt, to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The guilty plea was entered on Friday, July 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to operate an interstate sex trafficking business, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Josue Ortiz, 34, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Marijuana Distributed in Utica, New York Came From Farm in Northern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Aramenta Lee, 63, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of social security retirement benefits, was sentenced to five years probation with six months of home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay $235,160 in restitution to the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - A Jacksonville, Florida, man pleaded guilty today for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose during his naturalization process his membership in the Bosnian Army and crimes that he committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida.
By Federal Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
The U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced the allocation of up to $40 million for four new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs). These centers aim to expedite scientific breakthroughs crucial for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) environmental management and nuclear cleanup mission. The EFRCs will be led by Florida State University, Ohio State University, the University of South Carolina, and DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement upon the release of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s findings that “beyond a reasonable doubt" the Russian government was involved in the doping of...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist has found "green" alternatives to insecticides to control three native stink bugs that damage cotton, and the new methods are catching on with growers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Seth Askins (619) 546-6692 and Steve Miller (619) 546-7938.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Winnemucca District, welcomes back Robert Towne to the Acting District Manager position. Towne, who was the Acting District Manager for the Winnemucca District from the beginning of August through the end of October, 2015, was requested to return to the position while it is currently being advertised. Towne will serve in this position for approximately four-months starting July 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: On Friday, July 15, 2016, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned a seven-count indictment charging Wafa Abboud, the former executive director of a charity that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities, and Marcelle P. Bailey and Rami Misbah Taha, with embezzling and laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Rey Ramirez, 48, was sentenced on July 14, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel to 120 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, with five years of supervised release to follow the imprisonment, and a $100 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of an Ohio man for conspiring to illegally importing prescription drugs into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jesse Roy, 37, of Sanford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 140 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 15, PATRICIA LAFAYETTE, 61, of Torrington, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former office manager for a Lawrence property management company pleaded guilty Monday to embezzlement, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
