News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: ST. LOUIS-Journey to the Top tram rides at the Gateway Arch will be temporarily suspended beginning Monday, November 28 to replace the motor generator sets and upgrade the tram’s electrical system. The Visitor Center, The Arch Store, Monument to the Dream documentary film and riverfront via the Arch Grand Staircase will remain available to visitors. Tram rides will resume in late-April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that HOMER GROSS, age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 924, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that pharmacist KIAN GOHARI was convicted yesterday of narcotics and healthcare fraud charges for his role in a conspiracy to distribute medically unnecessary oxycodone pills and fraudulently bill Medicaid for those oxycodone pills. The jury convicted GOHARI following an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WEST POINT, Neb. - Working to clear crusted corn from the sides of a grain bin, a 52-year-old maintenance employee found himself engulfed in hundreds of pounds of grain, just minutes after the wall of corn collapsed and buried him. Rescued by emergency crews, he died of his injuries two days later.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the November 2016 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch presented Adrian Brown, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, with the prestigious John Marshall Award for Participation in Litigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Nov. 10, 2016 - Following a successful test burn this morning, and a determination by the burn boss and fire management staff, the Deadwood Prescribed Burn has started in Sequoia National Park. Ignitions will continue for four to five days, including two to four days of aerial ignitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Justin Ryan Wykoff, 28, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for domestic violence by a habitual offender, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney ordered Wykoff to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Summary. Collected in 2015 and 2016, 5 g muscle samples from these fish were/are being analyzed for mercury concentrations by the United States Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecological Science Center (USGS-FRESC) Contaminant Ecology Lab in Corvallis, OR. This work is part of the ongoing NPS/USGS...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Luis Serrano (24, Orlando) to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for producing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to register as a sex offender upon his release. Serrano pleaded guilty on August 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Armond Suber, 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with committing a bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Suber robbed the Citizens Bank branch located at 4949 North Broad Street on October 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A leading figure in the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) street gang has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to racketeering and drug trafficking charges stemming from his role as the primary narcotics supplier to the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief executive of Chicago’s first red-light camera vendor was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison and over $2 million in restitution for paying bribes to a city official to help procure the contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: New Orleans Man Arrested for Impersonating a Police Officer and on Child Pornography Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, JOSEPH HAL KINLAW, JR., 64, of Bald Head Island, North Carolina, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for Bank Fraud. KINLAW was also ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release following imprisonment, and to pay $23,796,372 in restitution to the victims of his offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy S. Woodean, 53, of Ransomville, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Federal Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
The Department of Energy (DOE) has entered into an agreement to sell depleted uranium to GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment, LLC (GLE) over a 40-year period. The uranium will be enriched at a proposed GLE facility that aims to use the material to produce natural uranium for fuel in civil nuclear reactors. This new state-of-the-art facility is planned near DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky and could create approximately 800 to 1,200 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam is anticipating construction of its new fire station this spring. However, there will be several changes before construction begins.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Thomas Peterson, age 57 of Kearney, Nebraska, was sentenced by the Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Judge, to nine years in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release following his conviction on four counts of violating...
