News published on Federal Newswire in June 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - John C. Matthews, 67, of no fixed address, has been sentenced to a 51-month prison term after earlier pleading guilty to robbing a bank last fall in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Today, House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 42 individuals...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: MISSOULA - Rachel Leanna Ross, 25, of Collierville Tennessee, and Lauren J. Hoskins, 26, of Somerville, Tennessee, were arraigned in federal court yesterday on a six-count superseding indictment charging them with various drug distribution crimes.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Defendant Was on Parole at Time of Hold-Up Last Fall.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Nine members of conspiracy convicted of terrorism charges in largest multi-defendant ISIL-related case in United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: FBI Agents Looking for Suspected Gang Member with Ties to Mississippi.

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released statements regarding the findings of a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: A federal grand jury returned a 15-count indictment charging four Youngstown men with narcotics and firearms violations, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Battle Mountain District Office (BMDO), Mount Lewis Field Office (MLFO) has issued a proposed decision on the Argenta Settlement Agreement Range Improvement Environmental Assessment (EA). The project is located within the Argenta Allotment, southeast of Battle Mountain, NV.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for her role in a $3 million conspiracy to scam customers by offering phony consulting services to owners of timeshares through the New Jersey-based Vacation Ownership Group LLC, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A South Carolina man pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging conspiracy to defraud the United States for the purpose of obstructing the functions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein of the District of Maryland and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Homestead, FL: The National Park Service (NPS) and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced today the next significant milestone in the Everglades National Park restoration. On May 23, FDOT awarded a contract to joint venture team of Condotte America Inc. and Stantec for the construction...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Five people were indicted in federal court on human trafficking charges for their roles in conspiracies in which girls, then 14 and 16 years old, were forced into commercial sex acts, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office, and Lima Police Chief Kevin Martin.

By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of six local and state National Recreation Trails, adding more than 350 miles to the National Trails System, and three National Water Trails, adding more than 600 miles to the National Water Trails System.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: HOUSTON - Ronald Dewayne Hadley has been ordered to prison following his conviction for leading a Houston-area stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI) in Houston.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Palm Beach County resident Kevin Raphael Bully, 26, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg following his conviction at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm, conspiring to import and distribute Alpha PVP (a/k/a “Flakka"), and distributing heroin and Xanax.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 6.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jose Villavazo-Gutierrez, 25, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. Villavazo-Gutierrez, was arrested on Feb. 17, 2016. He was sentenced to time served and is subject to deportation.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016

News Release: Federal Jury Convicts Three Minnesota Men for Conspiring to Join ISIL and Commit Murder in Syria.