News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Photo taken during Attorney General Lynch’s visit to Fayetteville on May 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that yesterday, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced GEORGE LINCOLN STANLEY IV, 47, of Durham, North Carolina, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Tuesday, June 14, to examine energy tax provisions. The hearing, titled “Energy Tax Policy in 2016 and Beyond," will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Saralyn Ann Proschko, a former parole officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Proschko, 47, of Victoria, was charged along with her boyfriend - David Ray McGee, 48, of Wallis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Steven W. Clyne, 69, of Meridian, made an initial appearance today for dealing firearms without a license, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. A federal grand jury in Boise indicted Clyne on May 11, 2016. The indictment alleges that from January 2013 until November 2015, Clyne willfully engaged in the business of dealing firearms without a license.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Today’s hearing promises to be not only informative, but timely given the various issues presented by international antitrust enforcement, particularly with respect to China’s enforcement of its Anti-Monopoly Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Gerhard L. Felts, aka Gary Felts, age 61, from Kingsley, Iowa, has been charged with three counts of making false statements to the United States in connection with a civil judgment obtained against Felts for Animal Welfare Act violations. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed yesterday, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. B Jesse Brison Ollis, aka “Jesse Lequire," 27, of Valdese, N.C., has been handed down a 21-year prison sentence by a federal judge for producing child pornography, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over today’s hearing, ordering the defendant to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon completion of his prison term.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing on the U.S. approach to Russia, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cited a series of destabilizing Russian actions that are to blame for the deterioration of relations with the U.S. The committee heard testimony from Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: An ocean freight executive has been indicted for his participation in a long-running conspiracy to restrain trade in international ocean shipments of roll-on, roll-off cargo to and from the Port of Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The plan lays out five expansion scenarios, ranging from no expansion of the 56-square-mile sanctuary, to one bringing it to a total of 935 square miles. In NOAA’s preferred scenario, the sanctuary would expand to 383 square miles to include 15 reefs and banks that provide habitat for recreationally and commercially important fish, as well as a home to 15 threatened or endangered species of whales, sea turtles, and corals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that yesterday, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced GEORGE LINCOLN STANLEY IV, 47, of Durham, North Carolina, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s May 2016 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a firearm after a woman reported that he shot at her and her children.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 180,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Four indictments and two complaints were unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging 14 defendants for their involvement in narcotics trafficking and illegal weapons possession in the Cypress Hills Houses, a New York City Housing Authority complex located in East New York, Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Hunter Lee Foster and 14 Others Indicted in First Round - Eleven Indicted in Second Round.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Tyler Scott Topolski, 20, of Vero Beach, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra, in Ft. Pierce, to 33 months’ incarceration, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Topolski previously pled guilty to bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding a competitive oil and gas lease sales on Tuesday, June 14 in the Siena Ballroom at the Siena Hotel Spa and Casino, 1 South Lake Street, Reno. Registration and assignment of bidding numbers begins at 8 a.m. and the sale begins at 9 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Board of Trustees for Social Security and Medicare continues to refuse to deliver their annual reports on the financial status of these programs, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) sent a second letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in his capacity as Managing Trustee.
