News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Defendants Receive 48 And 33 Months Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Rey Ramirez, a resident of Pharr, Texas, pled guilty in federal district court on March 22, 2016, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine and marijuana, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Ramirez...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that $5.8 million in competitive funding is available to help start, improve or expand cooperative businesses in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that the DEA will sponsor a play entitled Off-Script for the students of Mount Pleasant High School as part of the DEA’s ongoing 360 Strategy to address prescription opioid and heroin abuse in Western Pennsylvania.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: March 28, 2016 BOS 2016-043. NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with Dover Greens LLC, formerly known as Olivet Management LLC, which commits the real estate development and management company to provide and maintain enhanced safeguards for workers renovating the...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: On Tuesday, March 29 at 10:00 a.m., Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) will host a field hearing entitled, “The 21st Century Workforce: How Current Rules and Regulations Affect Innovation and Flexibility in Michigan’s Workplaces." The hearing will take place in room M119-M120 of Lansing Community College-West Campus, 5780 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing, MI.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A five-week operation, dubbed Project Shadowfire, netted 1,133 arrests, including more than 900 transnational criminal gang members and others associated with transnational criminal activity, like drug trafficking, human smuggling and sex trafficking, murder and racketeering. The operation was led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and concluded March 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Joseph L. Capano, age 73, of Middletown, Delaware, pled guilty today to one count of bank fraud and one count of knowingly violating the Clean Water Act. Capano faces up to 30 years of imprisonment and a $1,000,000 fine for the bank fraud charge, and 3 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for the Clean Water Act charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Four defendants pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy involving a scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Lisa C. Glass (38, Jacksonville) with child sex trafficking. If convicted, she faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today the selections for three open positions on its nine-member National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Ginger Kathrens of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been appointed for the category of humane advocacy; Ben Masters of Bozeman, Montana, has been appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on Friday, March 25, a Las Vegas man was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to serve 16 years in prison for supplying large quantities of cocaine to Alaska and Michigan over the past five years; he was also fined $40,000, and required to forfeit expensive vehicles and over $700,000 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Seng Xiong charged with stealing more than $1.3 million from elderly Hmong victims.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - On Thursday, March 31, join African Burial Ground National Monument, the United Nations Remember Slavery Programme, and EVT Educational Productions, Inc. for a 25th anniversary commemoration of the rediscovery of New York City's African Burial Ground.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women’s Rights National Historical Park is pleased to host the premiere showing of “Daughters of the New Republic: Sarah Bradford and Harriet Tubman" on Saturday, April 9th at 1:00 pm in the park’s Guntzel Theater. The film’s maker, Linda Robertson, Professor of Media and Society at...
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after reports that Tennessean Justin Shults and his wife Stephanie have been identified as among those killed in the terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium. Corker's office worked with the families and the State Department to help locate the couple after they were reported missing in the wake of the attacks at the Brussels Airport.
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2016
News Release: April Public Programs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: An Austell, Georgia, resident pleaded guilty today to one count of money laundering, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: An Anchorage, Alaska, man was sentenced for attempting to sexually exploit children in Cambodia over the course of four years and attempting to arrange a child sex tourism trip for himself and others to Cambodia, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
