News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The first phase of a project to improve off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation opportunities at the Rice Canyon OHV area east of Susanville has been completed and the area is now open for riding and driving.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a grand jury has returned a 48 count indictment charging Umar Adeyola 46, of Amherst, NY, with health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, making false statements in a health care matter, wire fraud, and theft of government money. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 22 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators have established a strong link between honey bee health and the effects of diet on bacteria that live in the guts of these important insect pollinators.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Albert Lee Mitchell, 69, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 10 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NOV. 16, 2016 -The percentage of Americans moving over a one-year period fell to an all time low in the United States to 11.2 percent in 2016, according to tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that ROBERT LEROY CRAWLEY, age 37, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A high-ranking member of the international street gang “Mara Salvatrucha" (also known as MS-13) was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy, which included acts of extortion, drug distribution, and conspiracy to commit murder, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record at a joint Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks:"
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), and the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the recent series of Internet of Things (IoT) connected device-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Windermere, Florida, man today admitted using phony invoices to fraudulently obtain over $1.5 million from a factoring company in Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Daniel Lawrence Broton, age 56, of Sparta, Michigan, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 18 months in prison for lying on a financial affidavit submitted to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to aid in the collection...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Dear Vice President-Elect Pence: It has been reported publicly that President-elect Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of requesting that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, accompany him to the highly classified President’s Daily Brief, despite the fact that Mr. Kushner holds no security clearance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four 18th Street gang members from Bergen County, New Jersey, and Rockland County, New York, were charged today with various offenses arising from their armed robbery of a Hawthorne, New Jersey, bar and the violent carjacking of a taxi that took place shortly afterwards, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), and the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the recent series of Internet of Things (IoT) connected device-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan support for the 21st Century Cures Act continues to grow stronger by the day. In recent weeks, letters of support have come from Research!America and United for Medical Research, and One Voice Against Cancer. Most recently, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) wrote expressing their continued support of the nonpartisan Cures bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Johnny Biggs, age 37, inmate at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, was indicted on Nov. 15, 2016, by a federal grand jury for possession of a dangerous weapon and possession of contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Deborah Pierce, St. Louis, Missouri, was indicted today for embezzling more than $380,000 from a joint educational venture between her employer, Webster University, and a Chinese government cultural agency.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced AquaHarmonics as the winner of the Wave Energy Prize - which comes with a $1.5 million grand prize. CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America were awarded second and third...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Jessica Nadine Frederick, 26, of Spokane, Washington, Sean Lee Jackson, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, Steven Wayne Jackson, 30, of Las Vegas, Nevada and Kristin Rene Wilson, 28, of Riverside, California pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney...
