News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are implementing fire restrictions effective Friday, July 1, for all public lands managed by the BLM Bishop Field Office and the Inyo National Forest, except for wilderness areas outlined below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Tramell Bishop, 37, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a fine of $5,000,000, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management will be hosting four Sand to Snow National Monument collaborative workshops in the month of July.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Alison Gu, 40, of Cheshire, Connecticut was arraigned today in federal court on a three-count indictment charging her with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false statements in connection with a passport application.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: A man from Warren, Ohio, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for defrauding banks out of approximately $2.5 million through fraudulent short sales of gas stations in the Youngstown area and by other means, law enforcement officials said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) sent a letter earlier this week to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew calling on the Treasury Department to stop obstructing Congressional oversight into the Administration’s implementation of Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The City of Boston’s Chief of Staff of Intergovernmental Affairs, Timothy Sullivan, was arrested this morning after a federal grand jury indicted him in connection with the extortion of a music festival production company operating on City Hall Plaza.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Kan Chen, of Ningbo, China, in Zhejiang Province, age 26, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 30 months in prison and three years’ supervised release, after pleading guilty to a three-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for engaging in a nearly $3.3 million fraud scheme against a victim who invested more than $8.6 million in his companies.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Environmental Assessment (EA) on providing $447,415 from the. Central Valley Project Conservation Program to River Partners. The Proposed Action would restore and enhance native habitat on 175 acres...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Berrien County, Georgia, Sheriff Anthony Heath pleaded guilty today to two counts of violating the civil rights of two non-resistant arrestees by using excessive force against them. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III of the Middle District of Georgia announced the guilty plea. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Wearing Fishing Hat Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: As the July 4th holiday approaches, the Bureau of Land Management would like to remind all public lands users that unless otherwise authorized by the BLM, the possession or use of fireworks on all BLM-managed public lands within the State of New Mexico is prohibited.We invite you to get outdoors and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Mexican man was indicted Wednesday on charges that he was stopped in Shawnee County with 34 pounds of methamphetamine in his car, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Indianapolis - The Leader of Operation Bulldog was sentenced to 85 years for conspiracy to trafficking child pornography announced Josh J. Minkler, U.S. Attorney and Leslie Caldwell, Department of Justice, Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Cottonwood, ID - An opportunity to learn firsthand how an archeological dig is conducted and to view some of the interesting artifacts that are uncovered is right in your backyard! Beginning July 1, Oregon State University (OSU), in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is conducting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: The former Detroit Public Schools Director of Grant Development pleaded guilty today to federal program fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the FDA’s creation of an Oncology Center of Excellence. The announcement came as part of Vice President Biden’s cancer moon shot initiative.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the FDA’s creation of an Oncology Center of Excellence. The announcement came as part of Vice President Biden’s cancer moon shot initiative.
