News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: To commemorate National Community Policing Week, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut hosted a Community Policing Awards Ceremony this afternoon in New Haven that recognized 22 law enforcement officers and community members from cities and towns across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: OCT 07 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Tomas Martinez, 27, of Pawtucket, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal heroin and cocaine trafficking charges. Appearing before U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith, Martinez pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and one count of cocaine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man who created child pornography and engaged in sexually explicit conduct with two prepubescent female minors has been sentenced to more than a century in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today issued the statement below following news that Mylan NV will pay $465 million to the Department of Justice and other agencies to settle the question of whether the company had for years been vastly underpaying EpiPen rebates owed to Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Owner of Patriot Computers ordered to pay full restitution to victims.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday October 22nd and 23rd from 11am- 4pm, visitors are invited to join the Living History staff and volunteers for Drink Your Apples: Cider Making 1860. Make cider at Roeder’s White Hall Tavern on Potomac Street. This time- honored tradition produced the most popular 19th century beverage for man, woman, and child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Maliek Kearney, age 35, and Dolores Delgado, age 31, both of San Antonio, Texas, for interstate travel to commit domestic violence resulting in death, in connection with the death of Karlyn Ramirez. The indictment was returned on October 4, 2016, and unsealed upon the arrest of the defendants in San Antonio on October 6, 2016.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Kay Granger (R-TX), Steve Israel (D-NY), Peter Roskam (R-IL), and Ted Deutch (D-FL), the co-chairs of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, introduced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man who created child pornography and engaged in sexually explicit conduct with two prepubescent female minors has been sentenced to more than a century in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coeur d’Alene Field Office will be finalizing hazardous fuels treatments on the popular Mineral Ridge Trail east of Coeur d’Alene the week of October 10. The work to be conducted is the final phase to reduce hazardous fuels at the recreation site.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Federal prosecutors have secured guilty pleas from seven defendants who participated in a large-scale international identity theft scheme that laundered more than $14 million in fraudulently obtained tax refunds by using bogus Republic of Armenia passports.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Last week, the committee released a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities at the FDA. Over the course of the GAO’s audit, serious concerns were raised about FDA’s network security, and through a process of collaboration, the committee worked with FDA to initiate a focused and ongoing effort to address those concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the October 2016 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EARL BROWN, age 31, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Last week, the committee released a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities at the FDA. Over the course of the GAO’s audit, serious concerns were raised about FDA’s network security, and through a process of collaboration, the committee worked with FDA to initiate a focused and ongoing effort to address those concerns.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation invites the public to comment on a proposed multiyear powerplant overhaul project at two Grand Coulee Dam powerhouses. During the 30-day comment period which ends Nov. 7, the public is encouraged to identify issues and concerns to be addressed in an Environmental Assessment on the proposed modernization and overhaul of all the generators in the Left and Right Powerhouses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LARRY TALLEDO-TORREJON, 30, a citizen of Peru last residing in Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for orchestrating a murder for hire scheme. TALLEDO-TORREJON also was ordered to pay a $150,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, MD.-Researchers at the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) celebrated Manufacturing Day today by launching the Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed. The test bed is an innovative model factory that will facilitate the advanced manufacturing technology known as the “digital thread" and help manufacturers cut costs, shorten production time, reduce errors and provide higher quality goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Today, after a 25-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández, three women and one man were found guilty of wire fraud, bribery and extortion charges, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The four defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that David Whitworth, 44, of Madison, Wisconsin, who was convicted of production of child pornography and receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
