News from June 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which upheld the use of affirmative action plans in college admissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Katia Maribell Olivera, 26, of Dallas, Texas, appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Look up the word "bumble," and the definition may read something like "To move or act in a confused, awkward or clumsy manner." But the bumble bee, a member of the genus Bombus, is anything but clumsy. In fact, the insects are expert aviators, alighting with precision inside flowers and vigorously shaking pollen loose from their stamens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Avel Barron, 26, of Dallas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 151 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2015 to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Juan Carlos Sepulveda-Castro, 31, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to 30 months in prison for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Sepulveda-Castro pleaded guilty on March 30, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after Senate Agriculture Committee leaders announced an agreement on labeling foods containing genetically engineered crops.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Lesley James McNeal was sentenced to 210 months in prison for production and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin. The sentence was handed down on June 21, 2016, by the Honorable William Alsup, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement to Reform Criminal Justice System in Hinds County, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that a federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, N.Y. - Join us from 11:00AM-4:00PM for a Red, White, and Blue Fourth of July: Independence Day was an important holiday for Theodore Roosevelt, who often spoke at the festivities in Oyster Bay and then gathered his extended family and friends at Sagamore Hill for a day of celebration.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy hosted a System Advisor Model (SAM) Training at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona. We were excited to be on NAU’s campus and work in collaboration with their Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, which seeks to strengthen tribal capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Samuel Antonio Flores-Murillo, 38, a Mexican national, pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey D. Self of the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector, and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: A quick glance at the Grand Prix Montréal’s website will tell you everything you need to know about what happened in Canada’s second largest city the weekend of June 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Tyree Mansell, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, Sterling Wallace, 27, and Jamain Wallace, 26, of Philadelphia and Yeadon, PA, were charged today by indictment with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, Hobbs Act robbery, attempted Hobbs Act robbery, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Former Supervisory Contracting Officer Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes from Foreign Defense Contractor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Timber Lake, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on June 21, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment yesterday charging two Dallas men, Victor Manuel Solorzano, 30, and his cousin, Edgar Solorzano, 23, on felony offenses stemming from their Nov. 19, 2015, armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Charles Michael Beatty, age 44, of Knoxville, Tennessee was sentenced on June 23, 2016, to 71 months in federal prison for bank robbery and ordered to pay a total of $9,070 in restitution by Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Stacy Len Lisenbery, aka Stacy Lisenberry, age 47, of Lincoln, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Cornell Harvey, a/k/a “Little Head," age 29, of Baltimore, today to 262 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his ...
