News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal jury today convicted two Orange County men - one of whom attempted to travel to the Middle East to join ISIL - of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Attack Took Place Outside Downtown Department Store.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Peter DeFazio released the following statement on the newly released FAA rules for commercial drones...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: “One of the reforms in the Affordable Care Act banned employer-sponsored health plans from placing annual dollar limits on benefits paid by the plan to a beneficiary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman has been charged in a 20-count indictment alleging that she devised a scheme to defraud the state of Alaska Medicaid Program of over $239,000.00.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $16 million in funding to help businesses move promising energy technologies from DOE’s National Laboratories to the marketplace. This first Department-wide round of funding through the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) will support 54 projects at 12 national labs involving 52 private-sector partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Lottie Carisa Burgos, former owner of ABC Village Daycare, falsified daycare attendance figures.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, Ohio - A Newark food additive manufacturer's failure to handle hazardous materials and respond properly to an emergency led to an explosion that injured four workers, including two contractors who scaled an 8-foot security fence topped with triple-strand barbed wire to escape the fireball.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Charles Jerome Wiggins, age 26, of Cottage City, Maryland, today to four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Jeffrey Carl Franklin, age 29, of Greenbelt, Maryland, today to 102 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for carjacking and being a felon in possession of a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Two California Men Convicted of Conspiring to Join ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Munising, MI - This summer, nature poems masquerading as official park signs can be found throughout Pictured Rocks, Apostle Islands, and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshores, as well as Isle Royale National Park at trails, vistas, and beaches as part of the National Park Service centennial celebration.This...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and the Committee’s Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) introduced H.R. 5537, the Digital Global Access Policy Act of 2016. House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) are original...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Admits Taking Part in Similar Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Clifford Raymond Salas, 38, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 35 years in prison on his conviction on conspiracy, explosives and firearms charges followed by three years of supervised release. Salas also was ordered to pay $111,018.05 in restitution to the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GERALD URSIN, JR., age 62, of New Orleans and a retired Chief Deputy of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO"), was charged in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ryan J. McAteer, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with two counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that McAteer robbed the Republic Bank, located at 1601 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 2, 2016, and Citizens Bank, located at 123 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Donald Guthrie, Jr., 56, of East Liverpool, was charged with receiving visual depictions of real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2395, the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016. This legislation, sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), strengthens existing law by making clear that inspectors general (IG’s) are entitled to all information needed to pursue an investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - A section of the Pacific Crest Trail on Bureau of Land Management lands has been closed due to the Border Fire burning in eastern San Diego County.
