News from May 2016
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: In partnership with the National Park Service, Eastern National would like to invite you to meet author Dr.Andrew S. Bledsoe on Saturday, May 28, 2016, from 10 am until 4 pm. Dr. Bledsoe will be available inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center to sign his book, Citizen-Officers:...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Last week, Gregory Maurek, 60, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy Diguisti to serve 120 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department today announced four research and development (R&D) projects in California, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming that will receive up to $4 million in total funding to assess the occurrence of rare-earth minerals and other critical materials that may be dissolved in higher-temperature...
By State Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing tomorrow to continue oversight on the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran and its consequences for U.S. national security. The hearing, entitled “Iran Nuclear Deal Oversight: Implementation and its Consequences (Part II), " will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Mr. Speaker, I rise, again, in strong opposition to H.R. 897.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men were indicted by a federal grand jury today for committing a murder as part of a drug-trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Appears in Court to Answer Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An Easthampton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for distributing cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An illegal alien found in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WORCESTER, Mass. - - An Easthampton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Worcester for distributing cocaine and marijuana. David Dulchinos, 51, of Easthampton, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In February 2016, Dulchinos pleaded guilty to one count each of distribution of cocaine and distribution of marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management released today the final strategy for monitoring the impacts of solar energy development in eastern Riverside County. Public comments from the October draft strategy were considered into this final strategy which is part of the implementation of the Western Solar Plan.
By State Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s June 8 address to a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for a more pragmatic approach to U.S.-India relations that will facilitate progress on outstanding differences while acknowledging overall cooperation between the two countries remains at “an all-time high".
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Kenneth Grandison, 42, of Pensacola, was sentenced today to nine years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to utilize a telephone facility to further a drug trafficking offense. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Williamsburg man, who was convicted in October 2015 of conspiring to defraud the United States of more than $3 million of employment taxes, was sentenced last week 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 24, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On May 24, 2016, Dorothy L. Dillinger pled guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of malicious use of fire announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Dillinger, age 61, admitted to engaging in a scheme to defraud the City of Casey, Iowa, from around 2009 until...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Ohio man was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison for his role in a sex trafficking ring involving minor girls who were brought to Chicago from Iowa to engage in prostitution.
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Payton Roofing Inc. Inspection site: 4160 NW, 21st St., Buildings B and D, Lauderhill, Florida 33313. Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on May 23. Investigation findings: Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jason A. Razo, 39, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to two months of incarceration, to be followed by four months of home detention, on a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a contract for $1.4 million to Pyramid Enterprises, Inc. of Valencia, California, to provide aquatic invasive species inspection services for watercrafts entering Elephant Butte Reservoir and Navajo Reservoir, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Michael Rizzi, a retired NYPD Police Officer, with conspiring to launder the proceeds of a multi-million dollar prostitution operation. Rizzi was arrested earlier today, and his initial appearance is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Viktor Pohorelsky at the United States Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York.
