News from November 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Subcommittee on Federal Lands Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA), and Reps. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a to the White House about the consideration of national monument designations in California...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Five defendants from the Canadian group High On Life appeared in the Yellowstone Justice Center on November 1 for multiple violation notices from National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management public lands. Two defendants pleaded guilty to violations in Yellowstone and Death Valley National Park. The other three defendants pleaded not guilty and will be appointed court attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Assistant U.S. Attorneys James P. Gillis, Randy Stoker, and L. Margaret Harker have been appointed to serve as District Election Officers (DEO) for the Eastern District of Virginia, and will lead the efforts of this office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming general elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. handed down life sentences to two MS-13 gang members convicted of murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and to illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: You may have seen it on CSI: The star examines hair from a crime scene and concludes its color or texture looks like the defendant’s hair, or maybe his dog’s. Case closed.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent two letters to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in connection with the Partial Consent Decree in the case of Volkswagen “Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two leaders of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang today admitted their respective roles in a racketeering conspiracy that involved murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Burgess, 50, of Stowe, pleaded not guilty on Oct. 31, 2016 in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Burgess on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
