News from March 2016
By DOT News Wire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: BTS Statistical Release: 2015 North American Freight Numbers
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, March 21, 2016 - Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon announced today the availability of $5 million in competitive grants to improve efficiency and customer service of agencies that administer the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on its Idaho Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 45 days. The nomination period will close May 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jacob Daniel Anthony, 21, of Weston, West Virginia, pled guilty today to possessing stolen firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two former FedEx employees and a New York co-conspirator who partook in a shipping theft scheme that defrauded FedEx and wireless carriers of more than $1.7 million have pleaded guilty. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the pleas today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced that Shawn A. Thompson, age 39, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced on March 17, 2016 to 151 months’ imprisonment for Distribution of Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Defrauded IRS and Used Fake Identity Documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: A Granite City man was sentenced on March 17, 2016, in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for Distribution of Methamphetamine he Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. James Wagner, 50, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced to...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. I want to welcome Dr. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, as well as Dr. Lowy, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Hodes, and Dr. Volkow - thank you all for being here this morning to discuss the 2017 budget request for NIH.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Veronica Fairchild, age 42, of Canistota, South Dakota, and Okoboji, Iowa, who was found guilty of four counts of tax fraud as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, lost her appeal of the conviction. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of the District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: New Orleans Jury Convicts Company Owner and Doctor for Roles in $34 Million Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951 or Alexandra Foster (619) 546-6735.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Garrett Joseph Thoresen, 23, of Norway, Michigan was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell ordered Thoresen to serve...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tyler Brookin-Jones, age 24, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park joins the Civil War Trust in inviting the public to participate in the annual Park Day on Saturday, April 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Luzerne County man was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to serve 151 months (12 years and 7 months) in prison for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against members of a violent drug trafficking organization that operated in and around Chester, Pennsylvania. The jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Okello Odongo, 36, of Snellville, Georgia, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 19 counts of filing false tax returns and fraudulently obtaining tax refunds reports United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: According to court documents, on Aug. 10, 2015, Day entered the Community Pharmacy on Main Street in Saco, vaulted the counter at the back of the store and demanded that employees give him narcotic drugs. Officers of the Saco Police Department responding to a silent alarm spotted Day running away from the pharmacy with the drugs and chased him to a location near School Street. There, the officers arrested Day and recovered most of the stolen drugs.
