News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Petersburg man was indicted for the transportation and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a congressionally mandated inflation adjustment to civil penalties that companies must pay for violating regulations governing oil and gas operations on Federal and Indian lands. The adjustments, issued as an interim final rule, are required by the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision today in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Natalie Middleton, 30, of Clovis, pleaded guilty today to laundering proceeds from the sale of synthetic drugs, commonly known on the street as “spice," Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington drug dealer residing in close proximity to Marshall University pleaded guilty today to a federal heroin crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Derrick Linwood Thomas, 25, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin within 1,000 feet of a university.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision today in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Darrell Lee, age 48, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland, today to184 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbery, and for carrying and brandishing a gun during a robbery. Judge Grimm also ordered Lee to pay restitution of $24,791.50 and forfeit $19,987.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Carlos Mendoza today sentenced George Adrien Brooks (73, Winter Springs) to 18 years in federal prison for attempting to induce a child to engage in illicit sexual conduct. A federal jury found him guilty on March 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Tonya Dailey, 44, of Franklin, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to Social Security Fraud, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - PLANO, Texas - Ten North Texas companies and individuals agreed to pay the United States a total of $1.125 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for causing false claims to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component agency the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. The companies and individuals paying the United States under the settlement are.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park is expected to open this Wednesday, June 29, for the season. Old Fall River Road normally opens by the Fourth of July holiday weekend. This summer, during periods of high vehicle congestion, park staff may restrict vehicle access when needed on Old...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte man was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for possession and transportation of child pornography, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: A major initiative to repair and improve overlooks, trails, and parking lots along the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River began the week of June 20, 2016. The current area closures are the first step in a major rehabilitation project that will take place over the next four years, with completion scheduled for 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Join Cape Cod National Seashore's Research Plant Ecologist Dr. Stephen Smith on Tuesday, July 12at 7 PM at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham to learn how aspects of climate change have influenced kettle ponds, salt marshes, and nearshore ocean conditions on Cape Cod. There have been dramatic changes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Granby, Mass. accountant pleaded guilty Friday, June 24, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eddie L. Vaughn a/k/a Elbow, 36, of Rochester, who was convicted of arson of a commercial building and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison and 3 years supervised release, by U.S. Chief District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Vaughn was also ordered to pay $45,548 in restitution for the arson.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA-Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Philip Hooge announced that a dead humpback whale was found floating in Glacier Bay National Park waters off Point Carolus on Sunday morning. Charter vessel operator Paul Johnson on the M/V Yakobi reported the whale to park staff...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Moab, UT - Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in Southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
