News from November 2016
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement welcoming action by authorities in Kosovo that prevented a planned series of attacks by ISIS extremists...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Due to better weather conditions, the Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office has lifted fire restrictions for BLM-managed lands in Fresno, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kings, Madera and Kern counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Peter Hamilton, a/k/a “Peter W. Merriman," and “Peter M. Hooper," 65, recently of Augusta, Maine, was charged by indictment in U.S. District Court for threatening federal officials.
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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident pleaded guilty in federal court jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of fraudulent official seals, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Patients can’t wait. That’s the message from over 200 of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations. A letter spearheaded by the National Health Council is urging bipartisan Congressional leaders, as well as The White House, to move forward and pass the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Rite Aid Vice President and a New Jersey business man were sentenced on Nov. 16, 2016, by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg, for their participation in a $12.9 million dollar fraud and kickback scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department's (DOE's) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has announced the top three states in hydrogen and fuel cell industry activities while now seeking stakeholder feedback to improve standardized manufacturing in the industry. According to the newly released State of the States: Fuel...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today applauded the introduction of S. 3470, the Miners Protection Act of 2016, and S. 3471, the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016. Both bills were reported out of Committee on a bipartisan basis in September of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT/ LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/MONROE/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and the Department of Justice announced that 14 grants totaling more than $2.3 million have been awarded to agencies within the Western District of Louisiana through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McAllen, Texas, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Superintendent Dan Wenk announced today that Patrick (Pat) Kenney has been selected as the new deputy superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Kenney will replace Steve Iobst, who retired at the end of September.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Edward Leonforte, 55, of Gainesville, and Larry Burstein, 69, of Alachua, Florida, have pled guilty in a multimillion dollar internet pharmacy case. On Sept. 13, Leonforte pled guilty to conspiracy, distribution of the controlled substance codeine, and money laundering. Burstein pled guilty today to conspiracy. The guilty pleas were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former vice president of Lenox National Bank was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for embezzling more than $150,000 from the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals and a corporation are facing federal charges for conspiring to steer West Virginia Division of Highways projects to a South Carolina business in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, last evening delivered the following remarks on freedom of the press after being honored at the America Abroad Media Awards Dinner...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Kyle Eugene Goddard, 28, of Plummer, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to theft of firearms from a licensed dealer’s inventory and possession of stolen firearms, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Goddard was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on Aug. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that STEVE COLLINS TURNER, SR., age 73, of Port Sulphur, pled guilty to mail fraud in connection with a false claim of $300,000 related to the BP Oil Spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Derek Fields, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was found guilty, after a 3-day jury trial, of kidnapping, transmitting a ransom demand, discharging a weapon during a crime of violence and felon in possession...
