News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Fire managers will take advantage of favorable weather conditions over the next several weeks and initiate prescribed burns on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Black Rock Field Office (BRFO) is inviting the public to comment on the pending final bond release on the Empire Mine, case file 3809.590(c), in accordance with 43 CFR 3809.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Fourth Defendant Convicted in Scheme That Defrauded Software Company of Over $16 Million Worth of Virtual Currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Established Fictitious Health Services Centers in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Billed Insurance Companies for Services That Were Not Performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired Wichita police lieutenant Wednesday was sentenced to two years on probation for filing false documents so he would be paid for providing armed engagement training for law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. He also was ordered to pay $56,400 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Thomas Joseph Wehner Jr., 40, of Moyie Springs, Idaho, was sentenced today to serve 210 months in prison and 6 years on supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death. The charges stemmed from a six-count indictment in February of this year. Wehner entered a guilty plea to the single count in August. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Isaac Lanier Avant, of Arlington, a congressional staffer employed by the U.S. House of Representatives since 2000, pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to file an individual income tax return.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) group’s #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Swyn B. Nelson, 48, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 8 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Late yesterday, following a one-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, a federal jury convicted Richard Jasso, 39, of San Angelo, Texas, on one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams of more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Elijah Moore, 76, from Seminary, Mississippi, pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2016, before U.S. Senior District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to possession of more than 100 kilograms of marijuana with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By Federal Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has announced AquaHarmonics as the winner of the Wave Energy Prize, awarding them a $1.5 million grand prize. CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America secured second and third places, receiving $500,000 and $250,000 in cash prizes, respectively.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester, Blackfeet Nation Chairman Harry Barnes and Devon Energy Corporation President and CEO David Hager to announce that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has canceled 15 additional oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record at a joint Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Darren Kattan Designed, Built, and Distributed the Fraudulent Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: While the purpose of H.R. 1669, the “Judgment Fund Transparency Act of 2016," is ostensibly to promote greater transparency in government, I fear that its real purpose is to once again attack the Obama Administration’s integrity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for possessing over 600 images of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. John Leslie Hess, 64, previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. After completing his prison term, he will be on federal supervised release for 10 years, the first of which will be served on home confinement. Hess will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: The Company Also Agrees to Pay Over $8.1 Million to Resolve Federal and State Civil Fraud Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Andrew Michael Dufresne, a 44-year-old Manchester resident, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 63 months in prison for robbing the People’s United Bank at 1750 Elm Street in Manchester, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
