News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that William Bruce O’Donoghue (61, Winter Park) today pleaded guilty to failure to pay over federal employee payroll taxes. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. O’Donoghue was indicted on Feb. 3, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a series of bills that seek to modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: TULE SPRINGS ADVISORY COUNCIL TO HOLD FIRST MEETING JUNE 16.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Sam Rikkers today announced that USDA is seeking applications for grants to provide assistance to socially-disadvantaged business groups in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WAHEED ISLAM, 48, also known as “Max Paine," formerly of Ansonia and Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for importing and distributing “Molly," and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: More than 50 Boy Scouts and Scout Leaders converged on Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, June 2, 2016, to tackle one of the parks biggest preservation challenges -graffiti.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of interference with commerce by extortion and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Today, the Energy Department (DOE) announced $22 million to support research, development, and demonstration of innovative plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) and direct injection propane engine technologies, as well as community-based projects to accelerate the adoption of light, medium, and heavy duty vehicles that operate on fuels such as biodiesel, electricity, E85, hydrogen, natural gas, and propane.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former University of Missouri employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $716,000 from the school over a nine-year period.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Dear Dr. Califf: The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing to examine the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent regulation that expands its authority over e-cigarettes. On May 17, 2016, I wrote to request your assistance in understanding the consequences...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre area release of “Operation Trojan Horse," which is a coordinated effort between the DEA and state and local law enforcement agencies to combat the current prescription opioid and heroin abuse epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles stated today that three Orangeburg men, Charles Williams, age 66, John Dantzler, age 66, and Jimmie Aiken, age 57, and Alejandro Renteria Noyola, age 56, were sentenced today by United States Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges, sitting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A gang member who sold crack-cocaine for the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Charlyne Basada, AKA Charlyne Melendres, was sentenced today to 65 months of imprisonment for bank fraud and identity theft, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Jean Ackerman, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. The sentence follows Basada’s guilty plea to the charges and her acknowledgement that she helped to defraud four employers collectively of more than a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Caitlin Connelly, 31, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to engage in a commercial sex business, was sentenced to time served and one year supervised release by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Who: Michael Muir (John Muir’s great-grandson); Congressman Jared Huffman; Save the Redwoods CEO & President Sam Hodder; Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O’Rourke; Redwood National & State Parks Superintendent Stephen Prokop What: National Park Service Centennial Celebration in the Redwoods, featuring food...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Marcellus Ramone Freeman, a/k/a Derrick Relando Pitts, age 24, of Washington, D.C., today to 308 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbery, discharging a gun during a robbery and carjacking, in connection with an armored car robbery and a carjacking in which a victim was shot in the arm and head.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Columbus man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jharel Daivon Kirkland, 27, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: For the sixth summer in a row, the Massachusetts Walking tour will conduct a bipedal concert tour in support of arts and culture. Along the route, walkers and local musicians gather for community concerts to highlight artistic diversity and recreational land use.
