News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 98 individuals this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Ray Williamson, has been arraigned on federal armed bank robbery charges relating to a series of bank robberies that began on February 4, 2016, and continued until September 8, 2016. Williamson was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles-area men have been arrested on federal charges for their alleged role in a scheme to smuggle military aircraft parts and other potential defense items to Iran in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the announcement the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would examine newly discovered emails “pertinent to the investigation" into Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District, Mount Lewis Field Office, Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the 3 Bars Ecosystem and Landscape Restoration Project, located in Eureka County, Nevada, will be available online beginning Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 at the following website:.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Incoming Storm Expected to Drop a Significant Amount of Snow in the Park’s Higher Elevations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas -The Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District Office asks motorists to be careful of wild horses and burros along our roadways, as the end of Daylight Saving Time brings earlier darkness and lower visibility to Southern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Judi Strong, 43, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to import Alpha-PVP, a Schedule I controlled substance, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant Persisted in Drug Trafficking after Search Warrant and Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Nancy Stallard Harr was administered the oath of office as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee by Chief Judge Thomas Varlan on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 at the James H. Quillen Federal Courthouse in Greeneville, Tenn. Harr had served as the Interim U.S. Attorney by appointment...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Several Reno companies that operate geothermal power plants in Nevada, California, Hawaii and elsewhere, have agreed to pay the United States $5.5 million to resolve civil fraud allegations that they unlawfully applied for and received millions in federal clean energy grants, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference in Rutland on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. to discuss the completion of an agreement to forfeit three Rutland residences on Park Avenue and convert them to owner-occupied housing. These properties were forfeited based on significant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO -- A former CEO of a traffic light enforcement camera vendor was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for her role in a multi-year bribery and fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman of the Southern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Angela L. Byers of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced today that Mark Ross, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of Evangelique Tarmey.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced late yesterday on charges of tampering with a witness by attempting to kill him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, of the Middle District of Georgia announces that on Oct. 28, 2016, Miller County Sheriff Shane Rathel, aged 42, was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at the Albany FBI office on charges of selling two stolen firearms.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) today sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) requesting a subcommittee hearing to evaluate the current state of the video marketplace in light of the proposed $85 billion sale of Time Warner to AT&T.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis yesterday sentenced Kevin Allen Rose (30, Macclenny) to seven years in federal prison for selling marijuana and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty to all charges on July 13, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Dear Attorney General Lynch and Director Comey...
