News from November 2016
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight the House of Representatives passed Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) legislation which recognizes that sustainable peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will come only through direct bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The legislation also calls on the administration to oppose and veto U.N. Security Council resolutions that are one-sided or anti-Israel.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Zakee Stuart-Holt, 34, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison based upon his convictions for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and money laundering. The defendant previously had pleaded guilty to those offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tinita Joyner, 52, of Rockville, Md., pled guilty today to embezzling nearly $290,000 from three companies where she had access to financial accounts while working as an office manager or as an executive assistant, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the first wave of speakers for the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit, to be held Feb. 27, 2017 through March 1, 2017 in National Harbor, Md. These experts sit at the forefront of energy innovation and entrepreneurship, underscoring ARPA-E’s mission of advancing transformative energy technologies to improve U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Southbridge Middle School teacher pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with attempting to purchase live video sex shows involving Filipino children and to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Ex-Wife and Two Sons Also Pleaded Guilty to Their Roles in Thefts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Defendants Face up to 10 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kevin Myers, age 38, a former resident of Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg, to 51 months in federal prison for his participation in a false invoice, kickback scheme that defrauded Utz Quality Foods, Inc. (Utz) out of approximately $1.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Paulo D. Braga, 66, of Gorham, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to health care fraud. He was indicted on August 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the CITY OF PORT JERVIS (“PORT JERVIS") in Orange County, New York. Under the agreed-upon Consent Decree, PORT JERVIS will repeal...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join staff and other volunteers on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Chellberg Farm for a morning of stewardship and fellowship.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Crimes Took Place Over Three-Year Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 29. 2016, Billy Ray Allen, a.k.a. Grill, 42, of Widener, Ark., was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in federal prison. Following his prison term, he will be on supervised release for ten years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the statement below following reports that President-Elect Trump will nominate Steven Mnuchin to serve as Treasury Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Southbridge Middle School teacher pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with attempting to purchase live video sex shows involving Filipino children and to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert Hill, 48, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hill is the eighth defendant to plead guilty. Eleven defendants in total were charged in the superseding indictment which was issued by the grand jury on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Eric Miller announced today that Julia Torti has joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office’s Civil Division. Ms. Torti, who grew up in Vermont and is returning after starting her career at a civil...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Lowry, 21, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa for his role in the Aug. 10, 2015, armed robbery of the 7-Eleven Convenience store at 1469 Lake Avenue in Rochester.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Army explosive ordinance disposal technician pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to unlawful possession of explosive devices, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Balwinder Singh, 42, of Reno, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists knowing and intending that such support would be used to commit terrorist attacks overseas.
