News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Sentence to run Concurrent with State Sentence for Rape of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Javier Martinez Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping, Cocaine and Heroin Distribution, and Firearms Offenses.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the Committee’s Chairman, today welcomed the unanimous passage in the House of Representatives of their comprehensive legislation to impose new sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad Regime, encourage a negotiated end to the crisis, and kick off investigations into the eventual prosecutions of war criminals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scot Stolkner, 44, of Gray, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 17½ years in prison and six years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute bath salts, fentanyl, and heroin. In addition, Stolkner was ordered to forfeit about $55,000. He pleaded guilty on April 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Detroit Division, jointly announced that Domingo Garcia, of Florence, KY, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Leader allegedly used Landscaping Firm as Cover for Drug Trafficking Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Lemon Bay Drugs North, Inc. and Brooksville Drugs, Inc. have agreed to pay a total of $750,000 to the government to resolve allegations that the pharmacies violated the False Claims Act by causing claims to be submitted to federal health care programs for prescription drugs that were never dispensed.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Nov. 26, 2016. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on November 8, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Charleston men were sentenced today to federal prison for gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel Gates today, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, at approximately 9 a.m. The gates will remain open until further notice. Please be advised that the decision to open or close the gates can be made on short notice based on requirements.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: DENVER - An U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation found a Denver company violated federal law when it terminated an employee for insubordination after the worker reported safety concerns about a product being manufactured by the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: A Fairview Park man was charged in federal court for making threats against President-Elect Donald Trump, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Craig Wisniewski, Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Nov. 15, 2016, Ricky J. McGee, 34, East St. Louis, IL, pled guilty to two criminal counts, namely: Providing Contraband to a Federal Inmate and Making a False Representation to the Bureau of Prisons.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after the Interior Department issued new rules regulating methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte man, convicted of Assault By Strangulation and Suffocation, was sentenced on November 7, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding possible FCC decisions during the presidential transition.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars:"
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NOV 15 - MANCHESTER, N.H. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that Manchester will be the fifth city in the nation to initiate a comprehensive diversion control, law enforcement and prevention “360 Degree Strategy" to help cities dealing with the fentanyl, heroin, and...
