News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY- Bureau of Reclamation officials are adjusting water releases out of Flaming Gorge Dam from previously-announced target levels to alleviate potential flooding downstream of the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. These adjustments respond to projected rapid snowmelt runoff and increased...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for parts of Grand Canyon National Park. The warning is in effect beginning today Friday, June 3 at 10am through Sunday, June 5 at 8 pm for areas below 4,000 feet in the canyon including Phantom Ranch. Temperatures at Phantom Ranch could reach 113 F/45 C. Areas above 4,000 feet including the South Rim will experience high temperatures in the 90s.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Received VA educational benefits to which he was unentitled.
By Federal Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - In support of the objectives of the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial in San Francisco, the Honourable Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Mexico’s Secretary of Energy, and Dr. Ernest Moniz, United States’ Secretary of Energy, reviewed their cooperative efforts underway to foster sustainable energy development, address climate change, and encourage economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Maurice Odell Brown, age 38, of Selma, Alabama, a six-time convicted felon, to serve the statutory mandatory sentence of 15 years in prison followed by 5 years...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew, Kerry, Pritzker, and Ambassador Froman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston lawyer pleaded guilty today to disrupting a state court proceeding by repeatedly encouraging the victim of a hate crime to ignore calls from state and federal law enforcement officials.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BLOOMINGTON, Ill., June 3, 2016 - USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Sam Rikkers today unveiled new rules to expand access to capital for rural businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Randolph Paul Duran, 27, of Ethete, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on June 1, 2016, on two counts of sexual abuse. Duran was arrested in Riverton, Wyoming. He received 63 months imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $200.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a $634,000 health care fraud scheme involving two ambulette companies they operated and fraudulent billing of the Ohio Medicaid program, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Santa Ana, California - As two criminal cases became public this week, the Justice Department today announced three cases in which additional defendants have pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in a long-running health care fraud scheme that illegally referred thousands of patients for spinal surgeries and generated nearly $600 million in fraudulent billings over an eight-year period.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Recent record-breaking rain on Hatteras Island has impacted ramps, campgrounds, and roads along the Seashore, and another rain event is anticipated this Sunday. It has been reported that up to 14 inches of rain fell between Saturday, May 28th and Thursday, June 2nd.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Atul and Jay Nanda Used Their Corporation, Dibon Solutions in Carrollton, Texas, to Commit Fraud Through H-1B Visa Program to Create a Low-Cost Workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Fred Keys 53 of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to RICO conspiracy and also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. Keys faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,250,000 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Josiah John Weiss, 36, of Suitland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for possession of firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ricky Delano Sheppard (59, Brevard County) was arrested and charged by criminal complaint today with possession of child pornography. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and up to a lifetime of supervision. At the time of the incident, Sheppard was working as a principal at the Holland Spessard Elementary School, in Brevard County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Robert Grant, 60, of Concord, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison by the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire after pleading guilty to one count of failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel Jurow, age 37, of Kingston, New York, was sentenced today to serve 121 months in prison after being convicted of using the internet to try to entice a child to meet him for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TERRENCE JOHNSON, 23, of Sullivan County, pled guilty to distributing a mixture of heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of Malcolm Perry, 35, a resident of Liberty, New York. JOHNSON also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - A long-time Skagit County, Washington drug dealer and gang member was sentenced on June 2, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Cristobal Ortiz, a/k/a Filero, ...
