News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIJAH GRIFFIN, 25, of New London, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Detonated a Pipe Bomb inside a Walmart in 2007.

By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S.-India cooperation is better than ever: “We have seen the navy-to-navy exchanges. We have seen the cooperation on counterterrorism. We have seen efforts now that you’ve put forward to build up what we’re doing on space cooperation. And on so many different fronts that set this foundation,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal jury in Elizabeth City found SMITH MERINORD guilty of three counts of Hobbs Act Robberies and for the use and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and the firearm was brandished.

By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Washington - Leaders from five state departments of agriculture and eight U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany Agriculture Acting Deputy Secretary Michael Scuse on a trade mission to Ukraine and Romania June 11 to June 18 to expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Kenneth Kezeor pleaded guilty yesterday to intentionally damaging a protected computer, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. In pleaded guilty, Kezeor acknowledged attacking a corporate computer application of his former employer.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Release Date: June 9, 2016. Contact: Kelly Carroll. Phone: 671-688-9703. Join us the Second Saturday of Every Month for Keep Guam Beautiful!. War in the Pacific National Historical Park hosts Keep Guam Beautiful, a community oriented clean-up event on the second Saturday of every month, from 9:00 am to...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Sex Trafficking Scheme Used Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Motor Castings Company, West Allis, Wisconsin

By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Employer's names: Allen's Excavation Inc. Capital City Contracting LLC. Inspection site: 2037 Eastgate Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32308. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Allen's Excavation Inc. for one willful and one other-than-serious...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: This summer, nature poems masquerading as official park signs can be found throughout Apostle Islands, Pictured Rocks, and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshores, as well as Isle Royale National Park at trails, vistas, and beaches as part of the National Park Service centennial celebration. This site-specific...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) denounced President Obama’s veto today of H. J. Res. 88, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act. Introduced by Rep. Roe, the resolution would protect access to affordable retirement advice for low- and middle-income families by blocking the Department of Labor’s “fiduciary" rule.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Bamberger, 53, and Tammy Bamberger, 47, both of Martins Ferry, Ohio, pled guilty in federal court in Wheeling today to marijuana trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By US DOT Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI®) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary working toward sustainable jet fuels. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) helped found the coalition a decade ago to promote the development and deployment of alternative jet fuels that sustainably ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Maurice Luclare Williams, 34, of Jacksonville, Florida, was found guilty on June 7, 2016 of possessing with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and numerous pharmaceutical drugs following a jury trial in the United States District Court. Judge William T. Moore, Jr. presided over the...

By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2015/2016 marketing year.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Gary Scott Conway, age 45, of Havre de Grace, Maryland, pleaded guilty late yesterday to transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An internal medicine physician practicing in Jamesburg, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for patient referrals to a mobile diagnostic company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: An Ohio lobbyist was sentenced today to 15 months for engaging in extortion in connection with a bribery and fraud scheme involving conduit contributions to the campaigns of elected officials.