News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned an indictment yesterday charging a 19-year-old Pine Grove man with production of child pornography and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office requesting a review of the Office of Emergency Communications’ (OEC) handling of funds. The OEC, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is tasked with supporting various programs and organizations aimed at improving public safety communications and interoperability.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men have been taken into custody in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) operation dubbed Operation Black Mask, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Renewable Fuel Standard - Implementation Issues."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation, NOAA Fisheries, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced June 9, 2016, the award of 12
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: The owner of a business in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood was fined $250,000 and sentenced to six months of house arrest for lying to federal agents about paying cash to city officials, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly selling firearms to criminals in South Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that THOMAS BROWN, age 46, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to 111 months imprisonment today on charges of possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Newport Beach resident has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme through his Orange County-based company that defrauded hundreds of investors out nearly $50 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Penn Hills, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ probation with four months to be served in community confinement and six months’ home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Criminal Information was filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg on June 14, 2016, charging a former Cumberland County attorney with tax evasion and failure to file a federal tax return.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Experience the life of a homesteader during the Homestead Days Celebration at Homestead National Monument of America on Saturday June 18th and Sunday June 19th.Demonstrations on the prairie and Heritage Center Farm Field will allow visitors to experience plowing behind a team of mules, the magic of herd dogs, stacking hay with a Jay Hawker stacker, a daily sheep herding demonstration, sitting on a saddle, playing in a pile of corn, grinding wheat into flour and much more.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, 62-year-old Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock of Chesterfield, Missouri, pleaded guilty to internet stalking announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Donald Novak, former licensed insurance agent and broker for various insurance companies, was sentenced to 29 months in prison on charges involving wire fraud. The sentence also included orders of restitution and criminal forfeiture.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: TALKEETNA, AK: A member of a 4-person climbing party succumbed to an unknown medical illness high on Denali’s West Buttress route the morning of June 14. Another independent team had encountered the distressed party at 2:30 a.m. somewhere between 18,400 feet and 19,000 feet during their descent. At that point, the patient had an altered mental status and was non-ambulatory.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Washington Post: The showdown Democrats don’t need to have.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Angel Luis Carrasco-Rivera, age 54, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg for fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement today applauding the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for releasing a bipartisan discussion draft to make much-needed reforms...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded Tuesday to the news that a federal appeals court upheld President Obama’s net neutrality rule, allowing the government to regulate the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury indictment unsealed here today alleges the owners of a Kansas City roofing company intimidated and coerced undocumented workers to pay kickbacks in violation of federal forced labor statutes, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
