News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Glenn Gene Fernandez, 46, of Alcalde, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Obed Wild & Scenic River has been awarded a competitive grant through Eastern National to translate the junior ranger booklets into Spanish.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Finding of No Significant Impact and final environmental assessment on the Zanni Lateral of the Crawford Clipper Ditch located in Delta County, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of theft of government property and WIC fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bard College has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a federal grant and with regard to the receipt and disbursement of Title IV federal student aid funds, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of the South Central Ozarks Council of Governments was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography on his worksite computer.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: March 9, 2016 BOS 2016-057. HARTFORD, Conn. - A blocked emergency exit and improperly stored stock put the employees of the Guess? Factory Store at the Tanger Outlet Mall at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket at risk of burns, lacerations and being struck by falling objects, an investigation by the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: First Conviction of Non-Swiss Financial Institution For Tax Evasion Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On March 3, 2016, Francisco Antonio Araujo Coreas, 37, of Muscatine, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 57 months in prison for unlawful reentry into the United States after deportation and failure to update sex offender registry, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant, a Former U.S. Air Force Airplane Mechanic, Convicted of Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorists and Obstruction of an Official Proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced RONALD LESLIE PIERCE, Jr., 53, of Jacksonville, North Carolina, to 151 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff Louis Ackal and Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Savoy were charged today...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On March 3, 2016, Kelvin Dwayne Shaw, 33, of Rock Island, Illinois, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 51 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Shaw was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term and to pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending the comment period for OSHA's draft Guidance on Data Evaluation for Weight of Evidence Determination to May 2, 2016. OSHA published draft guidance on February 16.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. President: Our nation’s students are making incredible investments in higher education-and their future-every day with the hope that they might secure their place in the middle class. While many schools are working in good faith to help their students succeed, recent cases have unfortunately...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant obtained 67 pounds of crystal meth (with an estimated street value of $3 million) in California and shipped the drug to his Todd County home.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today released the following statement on the introduction of the Senate’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: RAWLINS, WY. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a key milestone for the largest proposed wind energy facility in North America, a project with the capacity to open up to 1,000 jobs at peak construction and generate up to 3,000 megawatts of clean, renewable power -- enough to run nearly one million homes.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement after reports of Iran launching ballistic missiles for a second straight day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Adan Sanchez, age 45, of Rosenberg, Texas, and Omar Sanchez-Vasquez, age 49, of Guy, Texas, were sentenced today on one count each of Distribution of more than 50 Grams of a Mixture...
