News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Local grocery store operators Rodney Byrd and Reginald Byrd have been sentenced for conspiring to commit food stamp fraud. The defendants utilized a series of stores in the Atlanta area to unlawfully purchase over $5.7 million in vouchers of the Georgia Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and debit cards of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP").
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: EL PASO, TX - It's fiesta time at Chamizal National Memorial ! In 2016, as the National Park Service celebrates 100 years of preserving the nation's natural and cultural heritage, the park also celebrates 50 years of the community's heritage and international friendship. We invite you to come learn more about Chamizal's important story and the shared heritage of two nations and experience the rich cultures along this stretch of our southern international border.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Wayne Lumber and Mulch Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Kenneth Bowman, Jr., 63, of Terry, Mississippi, pled guilty on Sept. 13, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee, to one count of bankruptcy fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Acting U. S. Trustee Henry G. Hobbs, Jr. of Region 5, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced yesterday that Aaron Lambert, 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 23-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: READING, Pa. - In the last several months, workers at a Reading facility for children and youth in crisis became victims in at least 10 incidents of workplace violence, federal workplace safety and health inspectors have found.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on H.R. 5780 (Chairman Rob Bishop, R-UT), Utah Public Lands Initiative Act, which designates and exchanges certain federal and non-federal land in the state of Utah for conservation, economic development, and recreational...
By State Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after a breakfast meeting with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi and congressional leaders at Vice President Joe Biden’s residence in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region announced today that Jeffrey Nettleton has been selected as the Area Manager for the Klamath Basin Area Office. He will assume his new responsibilities in Klamath Falls on Wednesday, Sept. 21. “Jeff has had a long and successful Reclamation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gerald Sentell, 45, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK -Brandon Kie, 30, of Apalachin, New York, pled guilty in federal court to receiving child pornography via the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Brandon Kie Faces 5 years to 20 years Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Robert Lonardo, 67, of Burrillville, treasurer of the Rhode Island Association for Cardiac Children (RIACC), was sentenced today to 6 months in federal prison and ordered to serve 100 hours of community service for converting nearly $186,000 from the charity for his own personal use.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will increase resources dedicated to Anacostia Park and the Anacostia River, while continuing its commitment to treasured historic sites and beloved neighborhood national parks. Tara Morrison, currently Superintendent of Rock Creek Park, will become the Superintendent of the group of parks known administratively as National Capital Parks -East.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy controlled by the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that Andy Miller, Tracy Miller, and the Healthmark Investment Trust have agreed to pay to the government $7.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today made the following statement at a press conference at the U.S. Department of Agriculture announcing that the United States is bringing a World Trade Organization (WTO) enforcement action to hold China accountable for its domestic price support programs for wheat, rice, and corn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Chase A. Crump, 27, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 48 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) are working this week to remove hazardous debris and improve fish passage conditions at Elwha and Glines Canyon dam sites.
