News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: BOISE-Tina Boehle has been named Communication and Education Branch Chief for the National Park Service Division of Fire and Aviation Management. She succeeds Roberta D'Amico, who moved to a new position in January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: BOISE -- Delbert Rundell, 63, of New Plymouth, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of firearms by an unlawful user of controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Rundell to forfeit $21,580 in drug proceeds, 33 firearms, and approximately 28,000 rounds of ammunition. He pleaded guilty on March 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced a six-count superseding indictment (the “Superseding Indictment") charging XU JIAQIANG with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 48-year-old man from Houston has entered a guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child, distribution and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states. In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Timothy Lee Leftenant, 36, entered his guilty plea to illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 53-year-old former bank vice president and trust officer has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
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 DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: LINCOLN, Neb. - The deadly fact is this: nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry are the result of a preventable fall. Yet, some employers continue to ignore the dangers and put their workers at risk of a debilitating or fatal fall.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statements Tuesday after the committee met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that that on June 13, 2016, Loni M. Tepiew (age: 28) of the Menominee Indian Reservation was sentenced this morning to federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Tepiew previously entered a guilty plea for an assault on her minor child which resulted in serious bodily injury contrary to Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(6) and 1153.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. B 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 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Duffy, 59, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, was sentence today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to four years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Duffy was also ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution to one of the victims of sexual abuse. Duffy pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Malachi Maurice Glass, age 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III in Harrisburg, for distribution of cocaine base (crack) and cocaine hydrochloride.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Eugene Warren Brewington (34, Orlando) and Chima Edozie Aligwekwe (33, Orlando) guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. Brewington was also convicted of 4 counts of wire fraud and 11...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in cooperation with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE), plans to conduct a prescribed fire. near the northeastern portion of Lake Berryessa, within the Lake Berryessa Wildlife Area, on Thursday, June 16, 2016. CALFIRE expects to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found a couple who owned an Alexandria real estate company and an attorney guilty last week in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $2 million in loans.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | June 14, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KRISTIN KOENIG, a/k/a KRISTIN BARNES, age 41, of Denham Springs, was sentenced following a guilty plea to a one count Bill of Information for bank fraud.
