News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday a grand jury indicted three Virginia residents and a Scranton man for the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge, located on Kane Street in Scranton, which occurred on Feb. 13, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Americans Paying More in Taxes and More for Care under the Law.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the 2017 American Lamb Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Winner, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on March 8, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Pablo Arroyave, Deputy Regional Director for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region, announces the selection of Michelle Banonis as the Region’s Bay Delta Office Manager effective March 21. In this position, Banonis will be responsible for the Region’s Central Valley Project Endangered Species Act consultation efforts, Delta science and CVP fisheries biology programs, California WaterFix and numerous other CVP priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned an indictment yesterday charging an illegal alien with failure to depart the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Somerset, New Jersey, man who was pulled over in an SUV with an air tank hiding 19 kilograms of cocaine and seven kilograms of heroin that he planned to distribute in the Jersey City, New Jersey, area was sentenced today to 70 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, together with 31 original cosponsors, introduced H.R. 4754, the Emergency Financial Manager Reform Act of 2016 to address unchecked decision-making powers that appointed emergency financial managers have in financially distressed cities.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) issued the following statement regarding the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) proposed changes to the Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: On March 16, 2016, approximately 45 employees from every division in the park participated in Sparkle Day, the park’s annual employee litter pickup event. Inaugurated in 2013, Big South Fork sets aside a day each year that coincides with the start of spring, for employees to get together in an effort to remove trash, making Big South Fork “sparkle.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Juan A. Pichardo Mendez, 35, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to attempted possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute, reports United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset, New Jersey, man who was pulled over in an SUV with an air tank hiding 19 kilograms of cocaine and seven kilograms of heroin that he intended to distribute in the Jersey City, New Jersey, area was sentenced today to 70 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program * in the meat processing industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on March 11, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Theodore Deininger was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming invites members of the public to view an informational Planning 2.0 webinar on Monday, March 21 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at BLM offices across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Damien Lanier Owens, age 33, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Brad Tyler Suddeth, age 33, of Comer, Georgia was sentenced yesterday to serve 97 months in prison for possession of child pornography. The sentence was handed down in Athens by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Court Judge for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Burlington, North Carolina, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for bankruptcy fraud and tax fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of the Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Opposing, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer, Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, and Child Abuse.
