News from November 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will commence a review of U.S. Secret Service reimbursements to Presidential campaigns for transportation, lodging and other travel-related...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: An Elyria man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for trafficking cocaine, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. today officially launched the Western District of New York’s Smart on Crime Initiative.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have issued a Request for Information (RFI) for input on critical gaps in oil and natural gas technology that must be addressed through scientific research.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrests of GARY TANNER, a former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A U.S. District Court jury convicted Oscar Collado-Rivera, 32, of New Albany, Ohio of conspiring with others to distribute nearly 200 kilograms of cocaine involving at least $4 million in U.S. currency over a six-month period in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López has released the Los Angeles Basin Study that looks at the changing demographics, climate change and competing interests for available water supplies and identifies options to meet the water needs of the Los Angeles area into the future. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed on Nov. 16, 2016, charging Marcus Young, age 32, a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Schuylkill with possession of contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston methamphetamine dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Keary Drake, 48, entered his guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Justin Laurence McKinley (49, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to sending notices over the Internet soliciting the live molestation of children for online viewing. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: “And finally, U.S.-Mexico relations are stronger than ever. I know we can all agree that when it comes to our neighbors to the south, we must build bridges and not walls. Otherwise, we risk undoing so much of what we’ve accomplished.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: There will be a press conference today to announce charges against Gary Tanner, a former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., and Andrew Davenport, the former Chief Executive Officer of Philidor Rx Services LLC, for engaging in a multi-million dollar fraud and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev.-A former Las Vegas illusionist pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Chief Judge Gloria M. Navarro to possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed on Nov. 16, 2016, charging Marcus Young, age 32, a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Schuylkill with possession of contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JESSICA HENDERSON BERTHELOT, age 29, of Ponchatoula, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to Theft of Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: California Husband and Wife Indicted on Human Trafficking Charges Related to Forced Labor of Foreign Nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The mayor of the City of Passaic, New Jersey, today admitted taking $110,000 in corrupt payments from developers doing business in the city, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jose Vidal-Carcamo, 45, of Moorefield, West Virginia was sentenced to 13 months in prison for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for using a telephone to make a threat to damage and destroy a building by means of an explosive.
