News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Eric T. Shotwell, 41, of Minerva, was charged with transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Sister Park Arrangement between parks signed in November 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) took more action to protect law-abiding citizens and their hard-earned dollars. In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Roskam and Lewis asked...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Erdal Kuyumcu, the chief executive officer of Global Metallurgy, LLC, a company based in Woodside, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with the export of specialty metals from the United States to Iran. Today’s plea proceeding took place before Chief United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City -- The Bureau of Land Management is investigating the deaths of 18 wild burros at its Axtell, Utah wild burro corral and on the Sinbad Herd Management Area 30 miles west of Green River in Emery County, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Luis Fernando De La Rocha-Carlon, 26, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin and Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert jointly announced the plea.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on United States policy toward Putin’s Russia...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: “The Republican Majority believes the more hidden money in politics, the better. Freedom of speech, they say, requires more and more dark money, or that Democracy requires the ability of a few key people to write a $100 million check without anyone knowing who signed it.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Elizabeth, New Jersey, man today admitted repeatedly aiming a laser pointer at a television news helicopter, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jennifer Leighton, 37, of Auburn, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to theft from interstate shipments of goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Defendant Sent Millions of Spam Messages To Facebook Users.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Today, Justin Tolentino became the last of seven defendants involved in a Veterans Affairs (VA) contracting officer bribery scandal to be sentenced, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) Special...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Help celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service at Guadalupe Mountains National Park on Sunday, June 19 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Bring a blanket, a picnic and lounge in the shade at Frijole Ranch for an afternoon of music and memories. Activities will include ranger led hikes and living history talks. Come find your park and enjoy some music west Texas style!.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has enhanced scientists' understanding of how free neutrons decay into other particles. The work provides the first measurement of the energy spectrum of photons, or particles of light, that are released in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that KEITH HAESSLY, 46, of East Hampton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 240 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for using a computer to persuade minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As a result of a drug distribution conspiracy and racketeering indictment issued last week by a federal grand jury, 31 members and associates of a Santa Fe Springs-based street gang were arrested today on charges related to a wide-ranging criminal enterprise controlled by a member of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former employee of Utz Quality Foods, Inc., Hanover, Pennsylvania and a former Utz vendor have been charged with a false invoice kickback scheme that defrauded Utz out of approximately $1.4 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary King: I write today to request information regarding the Department of Education’s PLUS Loan program, which provides federal loans to help graduate students and parents of dependent undergraduate students pay for higher education. As you know, college affordability is a critical concern...
