News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: FBI Expands Missing Girl Search, Offers $5,000 Reward.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for finalizing a tobacco rule that will allow the agency to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah just as it does cigarettes. This rule comes seven years after passage of the Family...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland woman was named in a 21-count indictment, accused of filing false income tax returns on behalf of friends and relatives and fraudulently claiming more than $131,000, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: ASHFORD- Mount Rainier National Park has begun preparation of a Fisheries Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA) to guide management of native and nonnative fish populations in the park. Public comments will be accepted until June 6, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Crater Lake National Park has begun spring opening operations along West Rim Drive. The Crater Lake road crew has cleared snow to the Diamond Lake Overlook, about five miles northwest of Rim Village. The first mile of West Rim Drive, from Rim Village to Discovery Point, is currently open to motorized vehicle traffic. The North Entrance is projected to open to vehicles between Memorial Day and mid-June, dependent on weather.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - A variety of feathered events will take place at Wind Cave National Park Saturday, May 21, as the park celebrates the National Park Service Centennial with a bird blitz of activities for experienced and novice bird watchers alike.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft from Tribal Organization was sentenced on April 29, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Hill City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on April 22, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), introduced 11 bills that will bring innovation-friendly reform to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Collectively, the bills modernize the FTC for the 21st...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel has issued subpoenas to two financial entities - Scinto Group, LLP and Five Star Bancorp - in an effort to obtain StemExpress accounting and banking records, which the fetal tissue procurement business has failed to produce pursuant to previous subpoenas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native America Women.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David Weaver, age 41, and Crystal Serfass, age 31, both of Junedale, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to the armed robberies of four banks and a store.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Bradley Allen failed to disclose that he is subject to a domestic violence restraining order issued by the Rhode Island Family Court.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel has issued subpoenas to two financial entities - Scinto Group, LLP and Five Star Bancorp - in an effort to obtain StemExpress accounting and banking records, which the fetal tissue procurement business has failed to produce pursuant to previous subpoenas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Virendra “Vic" Maharaj, 49, and his wife, Rosalin Prasad, 40, both of Woodland, charging them with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding the IRS’s assessment of their income tax liability, and further charging Maharaj with three counts of tax evasion, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: David Martin Faces Three Federal Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SHANQUITTA JONES-DILLON, age 40, of Buras, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was charged Wednesday with lying to a federal marshal who was trying to locate fugitive Orlando J. Collins before Collins shot three law enforcement officers during a gunfight at the Country Club Motel in Topeka, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to regulate e-cigarette products the same as cigarettes and other tobacco products...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Corey Megill Brown, 46, the former Senior Pastor of Second African Baptist Church in Savannah, has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on 97 counts of mail fraud and wire fraud.
