News from June 2016
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: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Judith Bayly, 64, formerly of Amherst, was convicted yesterday by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of Social Security Fraud and one count of Theft of Public Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Walter Watts Jr., 47, of Madera, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 2 ½ years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Kenning: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is examining the June 12, 2016 terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, that claimed 49 lives and wounded 53 people. Law-enforcement officials have identified Omar Mateen as the suspect who carried out the attack. According to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, has announced that a former Milwaukee Police Department detective pleaded guilty today to depriving an arrestee of his civil rights by assaulting him while he was handcuffed to an interview-room wall.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated $31,027 during its legally mandated quarterly oil and gas competitive lease sale held in Reno today, selling 3,764.96 acres located in the Battle Mountain District. The sale high bid was $21 per acre.The BLM offered 74,661 acres for lease out of the 134,461...
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Juvenal Lima Bettencourt de Quadros, 50, of Oakville, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to being an alien found in the United States after removal subsequent to a conviction for an aggravated felony, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Vermont. Tuesday, June 14, 2016. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging John Penwarden, a professional photographer of Orwell, Vermont, with Possession...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Ways and Means Announces Markup of 8 Commonsense Bills.
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: BOISE - Jose Balderas-Duarte, 28, of Caldwell, Idaho, entered a guilty plea yesterday to the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Balderas-Duarte was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man pleaded guilty to sex trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Alexandria Va.- United States Park Police are investigating a fatal 2 vehicle crash involving a passenger car and mid-sized shuttle bus, on the George Washington Memorial Parkway near Stratford Lane. One passenger on the bus has died.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released updated bill text in advance of a full committee markup on Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy’s (R-PA) bipartisan H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. The text will be considered as an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (AINS) to the previous bill text.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the U.S. public health response to “superbugs," or antibiotic resistant bacteria. The hearing was sparked by the discovery of the MCR-1 gene in a Pennsylvania woman who...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: A Defiance woman was charged with failing to report nearly $800,000 in income to the Internal Revenue Service, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today issued the following statement after the D.C. Circuit Court issued its opinion on the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: FBI San Juan Announces $20,000 Reward for Information Regarding the Maurice Spagnoletti Murder Investigation.
