News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that that Bud Ray Brown, age 33 of Chelan, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously plead guilty to the felony charge of Attempted Escape. Senior United States District Judge Justin L.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Michael Wesley (40, North Port) has pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of unauthorized access devices. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count.
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Utah man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: MINEOLA, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, announced that seven people have been arrested and indicted for their alleged involvement in a heroin ring that operated in Nassau County, Queens County and Pittsburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Steven Edward Baker, age 41, of Kensington, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Utah man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former superintendent of the St. Joseph School District and former president of the Board of Education pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which he received more than $662,000 in pension payments to which he was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three individuals from Mexico pled guilty to illegal reentry today in federal court in Martinsburg, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Summer Youth Prevention Camp Program in Operation for 20 Years.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, through the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing up to $2 million for the Nuclear Energy Voucher pilot program. The goal of the program is to assist new entrants into the nuclear field as they build the collaborations...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) issued the following statements after the Department of Education announced a major new rule creating strong protections for student loan borrowers who are the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that OWEN LI was sentenced to probation for securities fraud and making a false statement, stemming from LI’s lies to investors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") regarding the performance...
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today praised passage in the House of Representatives of his legislation to strengthen United States engagement with Caribbean countries. The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act (H.R. 4939),...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former corrections officer with the Essex County Correctional Facility was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for sexually assaulting a pretrial detainee and then lying about it to investigators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, District of New Jersey, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on June 13, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: For over 10 years, Cumberland Crafts, operated by the Southern Highland Craft Guild (SHCG), occupied a large area on the upper floor of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park’s (NHP) visitor center. Visitors were awed by incredible artistry inspired by creativity and a love for Appalachia. But in November...
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the United States House of Representatives in support of a resolution that expresses concern regarding reports of state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience in the People’s Republic of China, particularly from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners (H.Res.343 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Sues Michigan and Michigan Department of Corrections for Discriminating Against Female Officers.
