News from March 2016
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in the Palm Springs area of California is a shining example of the type of leadership tribes can provide on the clean energy development front. The Tribe’s economic impact on the surrounding economy is significant and growing-it is one of the largest employers...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A previously convicted former stockbroker was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with an investment scheme which defrauded victims of more than $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a South Carolina woman who resided in the Stroudsburg area at the time of the offense, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy in which young women were threatened, forced and coerced into engaging in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: A three-count indictment was filed in federal court charging a Euclid man for having more than 900 pills of fentanyl, crack cocaine and a firearm, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Robert Joseph Whiteman, Jr., 38, of Levittown, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 95 months in prison for committing bank fraud and aggravated identity theft while serving a prison sentence for a similar fraud scheme. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert ordered five years of supervised release, restitution in the amount of $67,834.06, and a $500 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Cynthia Angulo, 55, has been ordered to prison following her conviction of theft from a labor union, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Angulo pleaded guilty Aug. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a conspiracy to boost business at a tax preparation company she operated by preparing bogus income tax returns for her clients, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jorge Betancourt, 37, of Robstown, has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: A Miami resident pled guilty for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme where he used stolen personal identification information (PII) to access the IRS “Get Transcript" service and obtain tax records of his identity theft victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Monday night, the president signed into law S. 2109, the Directing Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015, sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to work to control and reduce its internal administrative costs for major disasters. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) are cosponsors of the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Jonathan Gray, 42, of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 150 months in prison for possession of child pornography after having previously been convicted of a crime of abusive sexual conduct involving a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Chief Executive Officer of International Metallurgical Company Arrested for Exporting Aerospace-Grade Metals to Iran.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to commend you for your decision to travel to Buenos Aires in March to meet with newly elected President Mauricio Macri. As you work to renew the partnership between the United States and Argentina, we would like to suggest that you use this visit as an opportunity to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Scott A. Williams, age 51, of Huntsville, Utah, is charged with two counts of unlawful exportation of goods from the United States, false statement in a document, and conversion of property of the United States in an indictment unsealed last week in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Williams is a former civilian contract employee at Hill Air Force Base where he worked with the Foreign Military Sales Program with specific responsibility for F-16 parts.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor ahead of tomorrow’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the first major Supreme Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Larry Garfield Letterman (63, Wildwood) yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of possession of firearms and ammunition affecting commerce by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: In recent months, ISIS has gone global - carrying out attacks in San Bernardino and Paris. But the Obama administration continues to resist confronting radical Islamist terrorism directly and labeling ISIS’s efforts to destroy Christians and other minority faiths as genocide.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt asking for information on the agency’s administration of the Federally Facilitated Marketplace...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that her office’s Civil Rights Unit conducted a review of all polling locations in Lawrence and Barnstable to determine whether the polls are being operated in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Marricco Sykes, 36, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Hazelton, with causing the death of a fellow prisoner, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
