News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Deanna Renee Moon, 61, of Boise, Idaho; Clark Douglas Fullmer, 50, of Boise, Idaho; and Lance Edward Chlarson, 32, of Marsing, Idaho were sentenced today for their role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson. Moon pleaded guilty to one count of distributing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr., announced today that Christopher Ivor Mansfield, 38 of Tulsa, a disbarred Tulsa County probate attorney, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to bank fraud and money laundering charges. Mansfield embezzled $587,000 from probate estate accounts according to an information filed on Sept. 29, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing as part of the ongoing Disrupter Series to examine the potential of self-driving cars. The hearing provided an opportunity to better understand how this innovative...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced two pharmacists were arrested today and charged in a long-running conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense large quantities of oxycodone and other controlled substances from two pharmacies located in Medford, New Jersey.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials invite the public to comment on a proposed sustainable energy project through Dec. 13, 2016. Duke Energy has proposed installing an array of solar panels, coupled with a zinc-air battery, to power critical park communications equipment located atop the...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT -The mandatory park shuttles will run on weekends only through November 20 and also on Nov. 24, 25 and 26, 2016. Both the Springdale Shuttle and Zion Canyon Shuttle lines will be operational to help with the Thanksgiving holiday traffic. All shuttle bus operations will end for the 2016 season on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Derrick Swinney, 46, of Cleveland, on one count of escape and two counts of bank robbery, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the release of two (2) Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) draft Compliance Assessment Bulletins (CABs) for a public comment period through Dec. 20, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: USDA and a Washington State University-Led Alliance Support Sustainable Jobs in Pacific Northwest WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2016 – Alaska Airlines today landed the first commercial flight powered in part by a new renewable fuel made of wood waste salvaged from private lands in Washington, Oregon and Montana. ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2016—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement on Rural America at a Glance, 2016 Edition, an annual report by USDA's Economic Research Service: "At the depths of the Great Recession, rural counties were shedding 200,000 jobs per year, rural unemployment stood at nearly 10 percent, and poverty rates reached heights unseen in decades. Many rural communities were ill-positioned to bounce back quickly.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Defrauded Hewlett-Packard Company in the Acquisition of Autonomy for $11 Billion A federal grand jury indicted Sushovan Hussain, 52, a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment filed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: A Guilford County, North Carolina resident was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison today for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Ripley ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against two Washington-based companies, Washington Potato Company and Pasco Processing LLC, alleging that they violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against immigrants during the employment eligibility verification process because of their citizenship status.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with the city of Yonkers, New York, and the Yonkers Police Department (YPD) to resolve the department’s investigation of YPD and ensure constitutional policing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the planned departure of U.S. Attorney David Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania: “For the last six years, U.S. Attorney David Hickton has served the people of the Western District of Pennsylvania – and all the American ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The first three of nine defendants expected to be sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, were sentenced today in three separate hearings in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. Abdullahi Yusuf, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Four defendants were sentenced today in connection with a fraudulent Orange County, California, debt relief firm, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. The defendants all worked at Nelson Gamble and Associates and Jackson Hunter Morris and Knight, companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today released the following statement on the passing of Gwen Ifill: “Gwen Ifill was a pioneering figure in American journalism who quite literally changed the face of the evening news. She met discrimination and bigotry with talent and focus, rising to become one of ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman today announced the schedule of events for the 27th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), which will take place November 21-23, in Washington. Secretary Pritzker and Ambassador ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. – A wood chipper and an Upstate New York employer’s failure to provide safety training combined to make a 23-year-old worker’s first day on the job his tragic last, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
