News from October 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: After updating your password for the umpteenth time, have you resorted to using one you know you’ll remember because you’ve used it before? Have you ever given up on an online purchase because you just didn’t feel like creating a new account?
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn Collins, 43, of Morgantown, West Virginia, pled guilty to the distribution of oxycodone in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MIGUEL SOTO, also known as “Fat Boy," 31, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two St. Albans men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Travis Matthew Scarberry, 33, and Christopher David Ford, 37, both entered guilty pleas to obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Damien Travis Boddy, age 35, of Silver Spring, Maryland, late on Oct. 3, 2016, to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of an unregistered firearm and to transportation of explosive material with the intent to injure, kill or intimidate.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Some of the faces behind the “Beyond the Diagnosis" traveling exhibit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A New Jersey man, who previously admitted to supplying heroin to Roanoke drug dealers from sources in New Jersey, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Some of the faces behind the “Beyond the Diagnosis" traveling exhibit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - The last of 10 Virgin Islands women indicted by a federal grand jury on tax-related charges made her initial appearance Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon on St. Croix, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. The remaining nine women made their initial appearances last week, and all of them were released pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT CHADRONET, 38, formerly of East Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of bank robbery and admitted that he committed two bank robberies in Connecticut and one in Massachusetts.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today welcomed the announcement that Maria Korsnick has been named President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute. The committee leaders also welcomed President Obama’s comments Tuesday regarding the importance of emissions-free nuclear power.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing investigation of the Obama administration’s settlement offer to circumvent Congress, committee leaders today sent six letters to the insurance companies that have recently sued the government to recover shortfalls in risk corridors...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Antoine Paris Davis, age 39, a resident of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was convicted on Friday of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine and possession with intent to distribute heroin...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today welcomed the announcement that Maria Korsnick has been named President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute. The committee leaders also welcomed President Obama’s comments Tuesday regarding the importance of emissions-free nuclear power.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: OCT 04 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Miguel Soto, also known as “Fat Boy," 31, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that eight Springfield, Mo., residents and two Willard, Mo., residents are among 15 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jeannette Hardy, 25, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Homestead, FL: Everglades National Park will close today, Tuesday, October 4, at 5pm and remain closed until after the storm passes or projections of the storm's path warrant reopening.Dry Tortugas National Park is expected to be out of the path of the storm, and to remain open.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing investigation of the Obama administration’s settlement offer to circumvent Congress, committee leaders today sent six letters to the insurance companies that have recently sued the government to recover shortfalls in risk corridors...
