News from June 2016
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a hearing next week to review the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic controller hiring, staffing, and training plans and related issues.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: This year’s cave tour visitation at Wind Cave National Park was the highest ever recorded for the month of May. Rangers led 9,732 people through the cave on 370 tours, surpassing the previous May record set in 2013 by over a thousand visitors and last year’s visitation by 16%.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GREGORY CHISOLM, age 52, of New Orleans, was charged today by a federal grand jury in a one-count Indictment with the January 4, 2016 robbery of the Whitney Bank branch located at 228 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore invites you to celebrate the National Park Service (NPS) Centennial and find your park through art this summer. Artists and art lovers of all ages are invited to discover and explore the Seashore through free art exhibits, interactive workshops, and contests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Ruben Ralph-James Masters, 43, of Biloxi, was sentenced on Thursday, June 9, 2016, by Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography, and 300 months in prison for production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. The sentences will run concurrently. Masters was also ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $10,000, as well as restitution,.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on the new commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge announced last week during the Clean Energy Ministerial, the Energy Department is announcing funding for nine research and development projects that will support solid-state lighting (SSL) core technology research, product...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Stephanie Ann Ware, age 27, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Federal Court on June 9th, to 57 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Simon S. Gutierrez, also known as Simon St. John Gutierrez, 73, most recently of Three Rivers, Michigan, was sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell. He will be under the court’s supervision for 5 years after he is released, and he was ordered...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mae Joy Harris, age 25, York, Pennsylvania, who previously pleaded guilty to making threatening interstate communications, was sentenced to four months in prison today by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: It’s been a busy week. Last Friday, Chairman Royce was in Seoul, wrapping up an official visit to Taiwan and South Korea. Days later, he helped welcome Indian Prime Minister Modi to the U.S. Capitol and joined House GOP leaders in unveiling a national security agenda for 2017 and beyond. Here are seven photos to help tell the story.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
Release: Representing USDA at the G-20 Agricultural Ministerial in Xi’an, China, June 3, 2016, were: (back row, left to right): Jason Hafemeister, FAS/Washington; Chris Frederick, FAS/Beijing; Wade Sheppard, FAS/Washington; and Bruce Zanin, FAS/Beijing; and (front row, left to right): Amy Zhang, FAS/Beijing;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Antonio Cottingham, 29, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Simon S. Gutierrez, also known as Simon St. John Gutierrez, 73, most recently of Three Rivers, Michigan, was sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell. He will be under the court’s supervision for 5 years after he is released, and he was ordered...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Canebreak/Chimney Peak Road is temporarily closed to the public to protect public safety. The closure is in effect from Chimney Creek Campground north to the intersection with Nine Mile/Kennedy Meadows Road. Chimney Creek campground is open, with the exception of campsites 1-5, and drinking water is available for Pacific Crest Trail hikers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites children in grades 4 -8 to participate in the park's sixth annual summer day camp, entitled A Call to Arms: Civil War Day Camp. This year the park will conduct two camps, each for different grade levels. The first camp, to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two defendants in a nearly $3 million fraudulent vestibular diagnostic testing scheme have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Dr. Augustine Egbunike, 61, pleaded guilty Jan. 16, 2015, while Loretta Mbadugha, 58, also of Houston, entered a plea for her role in the scheme Dec. 12, 2014.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Tuesday, June 14 entitled “U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of FRANTZ PIERRE, 36, for orchestrating a multi-million dollar tax fraud scheme and engaging in money laundering. PIERRE, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 27, 2015 to counts one and two of the indictment, was sentenced on June 9, 2016 before U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in Central Islip, NY, Jeffrey I. Stark, an attorney admitted to practice law in New York, was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release based on his guilty plea on August 7, 2015, for forgery of a judicial signature. The sentencing proceeding was held before U.S. District Judge Arthur D. Spatt.
