News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Aaron Hudkins, 33, of Alamogordo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking crime charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: (NEW YORK) - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), and Joseph A. D’Amico, the Superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that an Opelousas man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for using a computer to steal money, hacking computers to obtain passwords, and attempting to sell information on the online hacking forum known as “Darkode.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: A member of the same gang as Jamal Dean, who made false statements while testifying as a witness at the sentencing of Jamal Dean, was convicted by a jury on April 12, 2016, after a two-day trial in federal court in Sioux City.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a business meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 to consider legislation and a nomination pending before the committee. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Today, Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) and Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) along with Congressman Blake Fahrenthold (R-TX) and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced H.R. 5321 the Stop Mass Hacking Act. This is the companion bill to legislation introduced on the Senate side by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced that a federal jury in Portland found Steven Douglas Rockett, 47, of Forest Grove, guilty of producing child pornography outside of the United States, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign country...
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 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 on the launch of the first Innovation Lane security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The Innovation Lane, a joint...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Octavio Colin, 34, of Cleburne, Texas, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 240 (20 years) in federal prison, following his guilty plea earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - An Ensley man indicted in Atlanta last month as a high-ranking member of the violent Gangster Disciples Gang was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Alabama for distributing heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-Today, May 25, 2016 marks ten years since the convictions of Enron Corporation’s Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Lay was chairman and chief executive officer of Enron; Skilling was the chief executive officer and chief operations officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that a federal grand jury in Wilmington returned a 47 count Indictment on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Lawrence Lusk, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, for being a felon in possession of a firearm
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the release of the Department of State Office of Inspector General report criticizing Secretary Clinton’s email practices while at the State Department.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer," pleaded guilty today to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: National Missing Children’s Day, Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on “Exploring 21st Century Mining Safety, Environmental Control, and Technological Innovation.".
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: The Wahweap fish cleaning station will be closed until further notice. The station was closed for health and safety reasons due to a temporary lack of running water. Park staff are working to restore services.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a five-year Warren Act Contract to be issued to Del Puerto Water District. Due to drought conditions, the district needs to convey non-Central Valley Project water to existing crops within their district that are in need of supplemental irrigation water.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 5233, the Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for DC Home Rule Act of 2016.
