News from May 2016
By DOE 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: 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 Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. -. The Bureau of Reclamation, the cities of Reno and Sparks, and the County of Washoe have completed negotiations for a long-term water storage contract to. facilitate the storage of water quality credit water in the Truckee River reservoirs. Under Title II of Public Law 101-618, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on April 18, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
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 DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Parnian Djafarzadeh, aka Parnian Clark, aka Saundra Djafarzadeh, was charged with possession of stolen mail, false claims, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Scranton, Pa. - Celebrate the annual "National Train Day" on Saturday, May 14, with a visit to Steamtown National Historic Site, downtown Scranton! National Train Day commemorates the anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad's inception by bringing to life the rich narrative of how railroads transformed America.
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Doors Open Gettysburg takes place May 7 -.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced JOHN WESLEY HOAG, age 52, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to fifty (50) months in federal prison for his scheme to sell illegal and mislabelled diet pills to victims throughout the United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant Accused of Improperly Removing Asbestos and Defrauding Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nathan Penner, 26, of Yuba City, was sentenced today to 16 years and three months in prison for producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert of the Eastern...
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A man who conspired with others to distribute heroin pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $200,000 in Social Security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former Millington reserve police officer has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography of three female minors and transporting a minor across state lines with intent to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Curtis Mitchell, age 37, Harrisburg, Eddie Viera, age 42, Shippensburg, and Brandon Brooks, age 26, York, were indicted in three separate cases today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announces that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the federal conviction and sentence of a Belle Fourche, South Dakota, man.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wesley Breeden, 30, of Springfield, Va., was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: An indictment was filed charigng Antwuan T. Lawson, 35, of Toledo, with being a felon in possession of a firearm, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
