News from June 2016
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is inviting public comment on a proposal to revise 18 U.S. grade standards for canned vegetables.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal grand jury indicted Matthew T. Martin, 31, from the Springfield area of Vermont, for armed robberies of a bank in Brattleboro and a credit union in Ludlow. Martin appeared in federal court on June 14, 2016 for his arraignment on the two-count indictment. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered Martin remanded to custody and detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Some Proceeds to Pay Restitution in Earlier Court Case.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement after speaking on the House floor on H.R. 5471 - the Republican response to the Orlando mass shooting. The legislation combines and repackages three homeland security bills that the House has already passed. Since these bills are already pending in the Senate, repassing these bills has no effect.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Deputy Superintendent Tracy Swartout invites the public to a special evening presentation to be held at the Paradise Inn at 8pm on Saturday, June 18. Park staff will join with representatives from Washington's National Park Fund to share information about Mount Rainier National Park's Search and Rescue...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Jorge Guerrero-Torres (28, Orlando) with possession of child pornography and production of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on the possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal grand jury indicted Matthew T. Martin, 31, from the Springfield area of Vermont, for armed robberies of a bank in Brattleboro and a credit union in Ludlow. Martin appeared in federal court on June 14, 2016 for his arraignment on the two-count indictment. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered Martin remanded to custody and detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Charles Mack, 51, of Clearwater, Florida, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 15 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for interstate stalking. Mack pleaded guilty to the charge on March 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Businessman Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Tax Charges in Connection with Venezuela Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: FBI Offers $5,000 to Locate Investment Scheme Fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton to the charge of assaulting a federal corrections officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland attorney was convicted of money laundering for accepting $20,000 in purported drug proceeds and agreeing to launder the money, said Carole Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A citizen of Jamaica pleaded guilty to Illegal Re-Entry in the United States after Deportation and was sentenced in federal court to twelve months on his conviction, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Illinois man traveled to Indiana to commit an armed robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -Maintenance work on the earthen dam at Quitobaquito pond in Organ Pipe Cactus is necessary to prevent habitat loss.A dying cottonwood tree has been the major factor in water dropping to a critical level for several species that live in the pond. The park coordinated with the State Historic...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, today introduced a resolution (H. J. Res. 95) under the Congressional Review Act to protect workers, students, nonprofit organizations, and small business owners from the consequences of the Department of Labor’s controversial overtime rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAYMOND MORALES, also known as “Freddy," 32, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kalif Briggs, 33, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for transporting oxycodone across state lines today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Medway man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with his role in an extortion scheme.
