News from March 2016
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives passed twelve Energy and Commerce Committee bills this week, further advancing the committee’s ongoing bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess. The bills continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, boost the economy, protect small businesses from burdensome red tape, and embrace policies that say yes to energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. -Wilmer Noe Velasquez-Mejia, 35, from El Salvador, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to serve 13 months in prison for assault of a federal officer. Velasquez-Mejia had previously pleaded guilty to this offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ismael Antonio Mendez, 20, of Annandale, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor. Mendez was also ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives passed twelve Energy and Commerce Committee bills this week, further advancing the committee’s ongoing bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess. The bills continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, boost the economy, protect small businesses from burdensome red tape, and embrace policies that say yes to energy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's Taos Field Office (BLM), in cooperation with concerned citizens and interest groups, including the Northern New Mexico Group of Sierra Club, is planning a volunteer project to remove about 30 expired mining markers on public lands on La Bajada Mesa. The project will take...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC-Cape Lookout National Seashore has been named the Best National Park Beach of 2016, according to a USA TODAY readers' choice contest. "The beaches of Cape Lookout National Seashore are truly special places and we are very excited to see such strong public support," said Superintendent Pat Kenney.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Panos Eliopoulos, age 37, of Richmond, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Andrea K. Johnstone to causing misbranded drugs to be introduced into interstate commerce.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program’s (SJRRP) 10-year plan to sell and exchange Unreleased Restoration Flows.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced on March 17, 2016, Alva Nicholas, 57, to nine months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Nicholas to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. CLIFFORD HORTON, 28, of Rockford, Ill., was sentenced to 86 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Horton pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 15, 2015, and admitted that on Nov. 4, 2014, having previously been convicted as a felon, he possessed a Taurus.380 caliber pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that WILLIAM J. WELLS pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to an Indictment charging him with securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud more than 30 investors of more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Vance White, age 49, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. Senior United States District Judge Weston Houck sentenced White to 36 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release. The Court also ordered White to pay $629,000 in restitution to the victims.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report in response to a submission by Peruvian unions and the International Labor Rights Forum, which alleged that Peru is not in compliance with labor provisions in the U.S.-Peru free trade agreement...
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 the Twin Falls District RAC which advise 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: (CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Panos Eliopoulos, age 37, of Richmond, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Andrea K. Johnstone to causing misbranded drugs to be introduced into interstate commerce.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ALEXANDER D. HURT, also known as “Alex Hurt" and “Alex Dante," 45, of Scottsdale, Ariz., formerly...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Was Arrested by U.S. Marshals Service in New York City.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Damien Lanier Owens, 33, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a gun.
