News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - One of the leaders of a drug smuggling ring that moved loads of drugs across the northern border with Canada in devices ranging from helicopters to backpacks was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison. Sean William Doak, 42 of Vernon, British Columbia, Canada...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Defendant Arrested Nearly a Month Later in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Amin al-Baroudi, 50, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly of Irvine, California, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for conspiring to export U.S.-origin goods from the United States to Syria in violation of sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. government.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -National parks offer some of our nation's best views of the cosmos. A fundamental new work, The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, significantly expands knowledge of light pollution and its impact on the night sky. The atlas, published today by Science Advances, is the work of an international team including National Park Service (NPS) scientist Dan Duriscoe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Noel Erik Anshel, age 49, of Owings Mills, Maryland today to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for transporting stolen goods. Judge Motz also ordered Anshel to forfeit $551,000, including funds held in four PayPal accounts and six bank accounts, six properties in Baltimore purchased with proceeds from the scheme, and property seized from his pawn shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two individuals pled guilty to unlawful possession of firearms today in federal court in Martinsburg, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new funding opportunity is now available from the Bureau of Reclamation seeking innovative water treatment prototypes and pilot-scale projects that are ready to test with real water. Through this funding opportunity Reclamation is supporting President Obama’s vision for promoting and investing in breakthrough technologies for water resources, building on the White House Roundtable on Water Innovation in December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 37-year-old company systems administrator has been convicted of federal violations within the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Grand Junction, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations to fill eight vacancies on its Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: California Man Sentenced to 32 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions Against Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The former director of the Cleveland and Dayton VA Medical Center was sentenced to 57 months in prison for working as a consultant for and taking money and other things of value from a design firm bidding on VA jobs and sharing confidential information about construction projects while still employed by the VA, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A 69-year-old Abilene, Texas, man, Jackie Lee Whitt, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to serve 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in February 2016 to one count of access with intent to view prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Florida Woman Pleads Guilty to Acting as Illegal Agent of Foreign Government and Conspiring to Commit Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced James Devwan Pixley, age 26, of Waldorf, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine, and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Judge Chasanow also ordered Pixley to forfeit six firearms, a car and a trailer.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that five defendants are under arrest and charged by criminal complaint with operating a credit card fraud scheme. Under arrest are.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 37-year-old company systems administrator has been convicted of federal violations within the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, Garry Wayne Craighead, a 49-year-old Leander, TX, chiropractor, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for receiving over $17 million in kickbacks in exchange for referring patients covered by the federal worker’s compensation program (FECA program), announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Raimonte Gaston, 23, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to heroin trafficking today in federal court in Clarksburg, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
