News from October 2016
By Commerce News Now | Oct 26, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: A five-count Indictment charging Joseph A. Huber, 47, formerly of Cleveland, with threatening to kill two federal judges and to blow up the federal buildings they respectively preside in, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliott.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Rock Hall, Maryland, man today admitted stealing at least 40 pieces of art and bringing them to New Jersey to sell them, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Karl E. Rominger, age 43, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by the United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg to twenty months' incarceration in connection with evading taxes and failing to file tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is considering alternatives for the management of invasive exotic plants in the park. Invasive exotic plants are capable of spreading rapidly, outcompeting native plants, and drastically altering ecosystem conditions and processes, even in pristine wilderness areas. The number of invasive exotic plant species in the park is growing, as are their distribution and acreage. This is occurring despite efforts of the park to control these occurrences.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: OCT 26 - BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England announced that 68,958 pounds of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions were collected throughout New England on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at one of 566...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Ronald Anderson, age 48, of Suitland, Maryland, with kidnapping, murder of a federal officer, attempted murder of a federal officer, using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, causing death by use of a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the following after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called for a suspension on collecting bonus repayments to National Guard members.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court on yesterday, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DAQUEZ HOWARD, 20, from Greenville, N.C., to 72 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. HOWARD pled guilty to the charge on July 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Defendant possessed two assault rifles and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A federal inmate who was caught approximately a mile from Raleigh General Hospital pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jody Ladd Dellenback, 30, entered his guilty plea to escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Sought Out and Defrauded Numerous Homeowners Seeking Mortgage Loan and Foreclosure Prevention Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL BARNETT, a real estate developer, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 37 months in prison for conspiring to defraud lenders and make false statements to the U.S. Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that BOB GENE HALL, a/k/a Robert Glen Hensley, age 35, of Cushing, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 265 months imprisonment for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Eight men have been arrested and charged by indictment with two separate conspiracies involving the April 2, 2016 theft of over 23,000 Apple iPhones valued at approximately $6,791,636.81 from the Miami International Airport, LAN Storage facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - The former CEO of Axium International, Inc., a leading Hollywood payroll services company until its 2008 collapse, was convicted late yesterday afternoon of tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the IRS, and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - David Vance Taylor, 62, and Bambi Sue Tomlin, 54, of Billings, Montana, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Taylor and Tomlin were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on July 26, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - Construction will begin the week of Oct. 31, 2016, on high pressure slide gates at Lemon Dam, part of the Florida Project located near Durango, Colo. The purpose of construction is to perform preventative maintenance on the high pressure slide gates that are used to regulate the water releases from Lemon Dam.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: 2015 was another above-average year for fishing and seafood consumption, with the average American adding nearly an extra pound of seafood to their diet, according to the annual Fisheries of the United States report released today by NOAA.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced IAN PARKER BICK, 21, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding investors of approximately $480,000. Judge Meyer ordered BICK to serve the first one year of his supervised release in home confinement.
