News from March 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Administrator Smith, I welcome you, again, to the helm of USAID, and I am pleased to have you here today. USAID continues to play an indispensable role in spearheading global development efforts, and I’m sure we’ll see even greater achievements under your leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Francisco Molina, aka “Frankie," age 41 of Brownsville, Texas, was sentenced on March 16, 2016 to serve 139 months in federal prison by the Honorable W. Louis Sands in Albany, Georgia. Mr. Molina previously pled guilty to conspiring with a number of South Georgia residents to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and one-hundred kilograms of marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office will reopen the Capell Cove Launch Ramp at Lake Berryessa effective Friday, March 18.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - In order to reduce the chance of wildfires, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to burn piles in the Brownsville area of Yuba County the week of March 21. Operations are scheduled to begin on a project near Ponderosa Way and Double Eagle Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Damien Hicks-Bailey, 21, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Third and Final Defendant Sentenced Following March 2015 Trial Convictions.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement by the Secretary of State that ISIS’s atrocities against Christians, Yazidis, and Shiites constitute genocide...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Federal charges were filed against Gregory Bruce Allen yesterday for fraudulently representing that he received the Purple Heart military medal, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The charges include the allegation that Allen made the representation with the intent to obtain money, property, and other tangible benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a fraudulent tax return scheme that claimed $433,365 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to 135 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Laurentino Benitez, 45, of Huntersville, N.C., to serve four years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, criticized today’s announcement by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it will seek to impose additional retroactive requirements that will further restrict domestic offshore oil and natural gas production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A 43-year-old Irving, Texas, man, Shannon Buck, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 60 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2015 to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography and one count of enhanced penalties for registered sex offenders, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Waynesboro man who was previously charged by Indictment filed on March 2, 2016 for the offenses of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor was charged with additional child pornography offenses yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Jonathan Ernesto Godoy, 26, of Fredrick, Maryland, was sentenced today to 190 months in prison for his involvement in two firebombings of the Loudoun County Department of Community Corrections building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A California man who allegedly traveled to Syria to take up arms with terrorists has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for attempting to provide material support to acts of violence overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on March 15, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Quenten Vaden, of Washington, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of trafficking in heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In the first year of a new reporting requirement, employers notified the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration of more than 10,000 severe work-related injuries, creating the opportunity for the agency to work with employers to eliminate hazards and protect other workers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -A newly-obtained email written by EPA official Miguel Del Toral directly contradicts claims made by Republicans at Tuesday’s hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he was retaliated against by the EPA. Del Toral’s email also directly contradicts claims that Del Toral made these allegations directly to Republican Committee Members while they visited Flint this past Saturday.
