News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Former firearms and ammunition dealers were sentenced today to prison for violating the National Firearms Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s September 2016 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: An Indictment1 was returned today charging Charles Richard Boehm, 46, formerly of Erie, Pennsylvania, with two counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House voted 258 to 165 to pass the CO-OP Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 954), sponsored by Ways and Means Member Adrian Smith (R-NE). This legislation protects Obamacare victims by ensuring that people who unexpectedly lost their CO-OP health insurance midyear do not have to pay the individual mandate tax penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL HUBBARD, 27, of Middletown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The BLM moved one step closer to acquiring 80 acres of private inholdings within the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area through a land exchange. The 80-acre private land inholding, owned by Brennan Holdings, LLC, will be exchanged for approximately 600 acres of public land in Washington...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a Coastal Flood Advisory and a Beach Hazards Statement for large surf and sneaker waves, which is in effect from late Thursday night through Friday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Samar Kassim Amin, age 31, of Deltona, Florida, pled guilty today to transporting an alien unlawfully present in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Brian Weaver Cluff, 44, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 322 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Stanley...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to documents filed in federal court in Providence today, Ambulai R. Sheku, 37, of Providence, a former Senior Employment Interviewer with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT), has agreed to plead guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, theft of government funds and accessing a protected computer to commit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ricardo Mejia, a 25-year-old resident of Manchester, N.H. was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison for robbing a Manchester bank branch last year, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. Mejia previously had pleaded guilty to one count of the federal crime of Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a seven-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Las Vegas man on Oct. 12 of drug and firearm crimes that resulted in the death of a man during a drug deal at a North Las Vegas apartment in November 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that DERRICK DEJUAN WOOTEN, age 24, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by 36 months of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ernesto Cabanas-Torres (41, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: ***MEDIA ADVISORY***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Carol Casto will honor more than 60 law enforcement officers, victim advocates, and community leaders during the 2016 U.S. Attorney’s Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at the...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nine new energy performance contracting pilot projects that bring together U.S. and Chinese companies to boost the energy efficiency of buildings in China and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A combination of clean energy retrofits and upgrades will...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL HUBBARD, 27, of Middletown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Miguel Quinones, 38, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Linda Patricia Thompson, 59, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Oct. 12, 2016, for bank robbery. Thompson was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received 72 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Cheyenne Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Two Chinese nationals were each sentenced to more than two years in prison for defrauding Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company out of $1.5 million, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
