News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is releasing new materials-including letters and memos from government and non-governmental legal and constitutional experts-documenting how Republican efforts to censure Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen are either pointless or unconstitutional.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On June 20, 2016, Craig Dewalt, 61, of Cave Creek, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Z. Boyle to serve two days in prison, given three years’ probation, and ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. Dewalt was previously found guilty at a bench trial of committing lewd, indecent, or obscene acts on an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Charles Eloys Johnson, 35, of San Leandro, California, was convicted following a four day jury trial in United States District Court in Charleston. The Honorable Richard M. Gergel presided over the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MELVIN LEWIS II, age 53, of Gretna, was convicted of thirty (30) counts of mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341) today after a one-day bench trial before United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Due to public health and safety issues and resource damage, the Bureau of Land Management has put a five-year closure in place on public lands that include the Skinny Dipper Hot Springs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed three bipartisan bills under suspension of the rules. Together, the bills bring cost savings, increased transparency, and fraud reduction to the federal government.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “The Ideology of ISIS." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso announced the filing of narcotics trafficking and firearms charges against David Krowner, 42, of Estancia, N.M. The charges arising out of a June 17, 2016 seizure of 20.7 kilograms (45.54 pounds) of methamphetamine, 1.8 kilograms (3.96 pounds) of heroin, and three firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) took to the Senate floor to detail dangerous accusations made by Senate Democrats regarding one of President Obama’s nominees to the Social Security and Medicare boards of trustees, saying that the allegations are fundamentally false and pointing out that Democrats are stalling one of their own party’s nominees to an important entity charged with overseeing our nation’s entitlement programs.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) released the following statement on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) final rule for the commercial uses of small drones...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Sergei William Noack, age 23, of West River, Maryland, today to 97 months in prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Judge Russell also ordered that upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former operator of several group homes for mentally and physically handicapped residents in Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $400,000 scheme to evade paying taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a nine-count indictment unsealed today, two Mississippi correctional officers were charged with beating an inmate and a third was charged with helping to cover it up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - Four Gibson County residents have been indicted for conspiring to distribute large quantities of highly pure methamphetamine throughout West Tennessee. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; and Johnie Carter, Special Agent in Charge of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA- Claude Jones, 33, of Fairmont, West Virginia was convicted and sentenced today for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) applauded the House for passing S. 2133, the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Bill, which will help federal agencies better detect and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Clark, Mo., couple have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Randolph and Boone Counties, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on June 14, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A high-tech version of an old-fashioned balance scale at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just brought scientists a critical step closer toward a new and improved definition of the kilogram. The scale, called the NIST-4 watt balance, has conducted its first measurement of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Hugo Escarcega-Quinones, 30, a resident of Bernalillo County, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Escarcega-Quinones will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
