News from May 2016
By USDA Newswire | May 26, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Two Plattsburgh Women Sentenced for Participation in Grandparent Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Thirteen people are charged in a federal indictment unsealed today alleging they used stolen identities in an effort to spend or access more than $3.5 million of other people’s money and credit, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Larry Garfield Letterman (63, Wildwood) to 48 months in federal prison for possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been convicted of unlawfully dealing firearms after purchasing guns from licensed dealers in Indiana and selling them to gang members on the West Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREW O’NEIL BOWYER, age 26, a resident of Jamaica, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Marlies Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Transportation (DOT-OIG), Office of Inspector General, announced that Airgas Doral, Inc. (Airgas Doral) was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on May 24, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) released the following statements after the Department of Education released its proposed regulation implementing “accountability" provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act. This proposed regulation is the first step of the regulatory process. The public will have 60 days to comment on the proposal.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter refuting claims that CyTech Services first detected last year’s cyber-attacks against Office of Personnel Management (OPM), based on documents and interviews conducted by the Committee.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, June 4, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will host a free InstaMeet event to celebrate National Trails Day. An InstaMeet is an interactive, in-park event, allowing Instagram users (IGers) to meet up, take photos, and get to know each other. Once the IGers meet, they will accompany a park ranger on a nature hike.
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after House Republicans voted last night to strip the District of Columbia of its budget autonomy.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor before the Senate passed a resolution she wrote with Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and others urging U.S. Soccer to ensure that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 60-year-old Kennard, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal environmental violations, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Perry Haywood, Jr., age 29, formerly of Washington, D.C., today to 54 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. Judge Titus also ordered Haywood to pay restitution of $1,700 and to forfeit the computers and skimming devices used in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Norma Patricia Rivera, 40, of Deming, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Randy Mitchell Wilson, 63, of Grand Bay, Alabama, pled guilty on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, to one count of making a materially false and fraudulent statement to government agents, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kirk Simplicio, 23, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a sexual abuse of a minor charge. U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Chief Timothy Trimble of the Zuni Pueblo Tribal Police Department announced the guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced JOEY OSCAR AUSTIN, JR., 31, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 110 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. AUSTIN previously pled guilty to this charge on Feb. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Marcus E. Johnson, 44, of Fall River, Mass., was sentenced on Wednesday to 92 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and trafficking crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.
