News from March 2016
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined KNX 1070 Newsradio’s Chris Sedens and Linda Nunez to respond to the horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels. Audio and key excerpts below...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held a budget oversight hearing to review irresponsible spending and harmful regulation under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Bureau of Reclamation and the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Mount Vernon, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 14 months (time served) in prison and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $82,619.00 on her conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Castillo Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 47-year-old Galveston man formerly employed at Texas A&M University has pleaded guilty to one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a home health agency was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for her role in a $7 million scheme to defraud Medicaid and engage in bribery, money laundering, and tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced Claude King, - 42, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 171 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Former U.S. Postal Service employee Linwood R. Nelson, Jr., age 32, of Gwynn Oaks, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, and admitted to diverting packages of drugs sent through the U.S. Mail and delivering them to co-conspirators.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management granted an additional 30 days for comment submissions regarding the establishment of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern in San Miguel, San Juan, Dolores, Montezuma and Montrose counties. Comments will be most helpful if received by May 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who previously pled guilty to being a convicted sex offender who failed to properly register as such, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited five Texas companies for failing to inform construction workers renovating a San Antonio building of the presence of dangerous asbestos, and allowing other hazards. In total, the companies now face $185,150 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Wade Andrew Albright, age 43, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced to 188 months (15.8 years) imprisonment today in federal court. In November 2015, Albright plead guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: A man who received child pornography pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: I would like to thank Chairman Johnson for holding today’s hearing on the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). It is long past time that Congress takes a look at this important issue. The WEP affects over 1.5 million people who see their Social Security benefits reduced because they have worked both...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: David Witt Pleads Guilty to Two Federal Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in conjunction with the Montgomery Police Department and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for those responsible for the theft of firearms from Patriot Gun Sales, a federal firearm licensee (FFL).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Howard Downey, age 33, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbing a store, and tampering with evidence in connection with the gun used in the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADONY NINA, the leader of a drug trafficking organization (the “Organization") that operated in the Bronx, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for running the Organization and murdering Aisha Morales...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A former pediatric oncologist at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has pleaded guilty to receipt, access with intent to view and possession of child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Your Biscayne is the current show in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery. It features photographs by Eilyn Agurre that capture the everyday ways that people enjoy and experience the park. The free exhibit is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily through May 30, 2016. The public is invited to meet the artist during a reception on Saturday, March 26, 2016, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
