News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Genoveva Farfan one of twenty-one defendants indicted in a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi against defendants in Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Indiana, California, New York and Wisconsin, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that STAG ARMS LLC, a firearms manufacturer in New Britain, and its former owner and president, MARK MALKOWSKI of Farmington, were sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this Member Day hearing on health tax legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that STAG ARMS LLC, a firearms manufacturer in New Britain, and its former owner and president, MARK MALKOWSKI of Farmington, were sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Meader, age 31, of Liverpool, New York, pleaded guilty to a Criminal Information charging him with robbing two banks.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $21.8 million construction contract to NW Construction Inc. of Bozeman, Montana for dam safety modifications to. Stampede Dam to prevent potential overtopping of the dam in a significant hydrologic event. Stampede Dam will be raised 11.5 feet...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Rising Homicide Rates: The View From the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Guy G. Gebhardt, Acting United States Trustee for Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Region 21)...
By State Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today requested that the Obama administration correct statements made at a March 23 full committee hearing on the president’s plan to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - A local marijuana proprietor, Eric Scully, 32, of Lane County, has pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in the District of Oregon for engaging in money laundering and using a fictitious name on a U.S. Postal Service shipping account.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Curious about the plants and animals of Homestead National of America, then be here on Saturday, May 21, 2016 for the Centennial Bioblitz! To celebrate 100 years of stewardship, the National Park Service is planning a shared nation-wide quest to discover and document biodiversity -the variety of living organisms in a place. You are invited to be part of the celebration as parks across the country host bioblitzes onMay 21, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I commend U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations' outstanding work and unwavering determination that led to the apprehension and extradition to the U.S. Saturday of those alleged to have murdered HSI Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata on Feb. 15, 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On May 19-20, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to El Salvador and Honduras for meetings and engagements regarding current migration trends in Central America.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson today hosted the Official Portrait Unveiling Ceremony in honor of former Secretary Janet Napolitano, who served as the nation’s third Secretary of Homeland Security from Jan. 20, 2009 to September 6, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with German Federal Minister of Interior Thomas de Maizière to discuss a range of security issues, including border security, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 17, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced an increase to the fiscal year 2016 Overall Allotment Quantity (OAQ) for domestic sugar, reassigned some of the projected surplus sugar marketing allotments among processors, and reassigned part of the surplus cane sugar ...
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Current Outlook Underscores Need to Reform Wildfire Funding WASHINGTON, May 17, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell met today with Forest Service Regional Foresters to discuss preparations for anticipated significant wildland fire potential in 2016. The briefing comes as the 2016 fire season has begun with five times more acres already burned than this time last year, following 2015's record-setting fire season.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned a five-count indictment charging Clark County School District Police Officer James Lescinsky, 45, with unlawfully assaulting two people at the Jeffrey Behavior School on May 21, 2015, and then attempting to cover it up.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: A total of 16 people have been charged following a multi-year, multi-agency federal investigation into one of the largest synthetic cannabinoid trafficking enterprises in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Defendants Received $16 Million in Refunds After Filing Bogus Tax Returns Two brothers were sentenced to prison today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after pleading guilty in January for perpetrating a scheme in which they filed 46 fraudulent income tax returns seeking refunds ...
