News from November 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6302, the Overtime Pay for Secret Service Agents Act of 2016, sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). The bill allows agents of the United States Secret Service (USSS) to receive additional overtime premium pay.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following opening statement at an executive session to consider two Social Security and Medicare Trustees nominations...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Law enforcement authorities have arrested an alleged pimp who is charged with trafficking a 16-year-old girl and advertising her services as a prostitute in an online publication.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Matthew Hightower, age 34, of Baltimore, was sentenced today to 380 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for collection of a debt by extortionate means, and use of interstate facilities for extortion resulting in death in connection with the murder of victim David Wutoh. Hightower was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 22, 2016, after a seven-day trial.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, Dec. 14, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The NACOSH Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Professionals Pipeline Work Group will meet Dec. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Leonard James McMorris, of Rayville, Louisiana, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,417,903 in restitution, following his guilty plea in March 2016 to his role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: A Florida Keys boat lift installation company and a South Florida resident pled guilty and were sentenced in connection with the installation of illegal boat lifts without the requisite federal permits from the United States Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: A technique called "near-infrared spectroscopy" (NIRS) can rapidly estimate the amount of acrylamide in white-potato French fries, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their North Carolina State University collaborators.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI -Carlos Ruiz-Rodriguez, 25, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has pleaded guilty to extortion against a Cincinnati-based company. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in August.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) today announced that 16 carbon storage projects have been selected to receive more than $44 million for cost-shared research and development. The funding is part of DOE’s Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative, which seeks to help mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Check Casher Indicted for Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Websites: Incident Summary: The Chimney Tops 2 Fire was reported in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg, TN on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 at approximately 5:20 p.m. The wildfire began burning in a remote...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Armando Sotelo, 24, pleaded guilty today to a hate crime offense for his role in a June 19, 2015, assault of a black Somali man in Dodge City, Kansas. Omar Cantero Martinez, 32, also pleaded guilty today to providing perjured testimony during a hate crimes prosecution arising from the same assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Alleged to have robbed a Walmart Neighborhood Market and Walgreens Pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted the former president of the Communications Workers of America, Local 3901, in Oxford, Ala., for a scheme to embezzle more than $69,000 from the local chapter, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards, Investigator Hollis Lindley Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. today sentenced the former headmaster of a Huntersville, N.C. area parochial school to 60 months in prison for embezzling nearly $9 million from the school and its affiliated church, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Physician Naga Raja Thota, a pain specialist with an office in El Cajon, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday, admitting that he fraudulently and illegally wrote prescriptions for hundreds of oxycodone and hydrocodone tablets for patients with no medical necessity, one of whom was a sex partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Torrance man has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for amassing a collection of more than 20,000 images and videos of child pornography that he made available to others via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: (BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - - Ryan Root, age 37, of West New York, New Jersey, and formerly of Binghamton, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and commit international money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Franklin Long Black Cat, age 23, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, was found guilty of Assaulting a Federal Officer as a result of a federal bench trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
