News from June 2016
By EPA 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 DOE 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: NEWARK, N.J. - A Warwick, New York, man was sentenced today to life in prison for coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and traveling from New York to Passaic County, New Jersey, to have sexual intercourse with another minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 40-year-old Mexican national who resided in Chicago at the time of his arrest, was sentenced today to serve 10 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, for his role...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Trenton S. Sommerville, 48, of Destin, Florida, was sentenced Friday afternoon to 51 months in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: LOCKPORT, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, City of Lockport Mayor Anne McCaffrey, U.S. Attorney William Hochul, U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of New York, Chief of Police Michael Niethe, Lockport Police Department, and Head Basketball Coach Mike MacDonald, Daemen College, announced that the Second Annual Game Changers will begin on July 1, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López announced $876,565 in funding through the WaterSMART Program for eleven projects that will establish or further develop watershed management groups. Those groups are located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Oregon.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt that a Texas law restricting women’s access to safe, legal abortion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: In Separate Case, Jamaican National Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Airport Drug Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Operation Coin Collector. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that five members of a Sedalia, Mo., street gang were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that distributed at least five kilograms...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: SHELTER COVE, Calif. - "Kayaking the Lost Coast" will be offered Saturday, July 23, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., in Shelter Cove. Participants should meet at the boat launch site before 9 a.m. to register for the paddle. Please bring water, food, sunblock, sunglasses and a hat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Nelson Cristiano Machado, Jr. (50, Bradenton) guilty of three counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Jayson Mickle, 31, of Hampton, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Defendant Helped Manipulate the Stock Price of a Company That Purported to Offer Users Access to a Cloud-Based Mobile Platform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Robert Eloff Jr., 41, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Defendant Admits Hiding From the IRS the $130 Million Sale Of a Petroleum Products Company He Owned, Using His Attorneys To Provide False Information To IRS During Subsequent Audit, and Filing Dozens of False Tax Returns with IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former recreation director for the City of Osawatomie was sentenced Monday to five years on federal supervised probation for embezzling more than $125,000 from the city, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Washington- At 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 26 the United States Park Police helicopter, Eagle 1, observed an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or drone, in the airspace over North Field in Anacostia Park, Washington, DC. Flying any kind of UAS or drone anywhere in Washington, D.C. or in national parks is illegal.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.-U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, and U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, today announced the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report they requested evaluating the Internal Revenue...
