News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on four bills including H.R. 3764 (Rep. Rob Bishop), theTribal Recognition Act of 2015.The bill restores the constitutional framework to tribal recognition authorities vested with Congress under Article I. Following the passage of H.R. 3764, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 54-year-old Jose A. Ytuarte, a former Texas Department of Public Safety Customer Service Representative in Hondo, TX, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to provide fraudulent drivers’ licenses to undocumented...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: G.F. Peterman, III, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Bobby Leon Parrish, of Lizella, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 95 months in Federal prison for assaulting a Federal law enforcement officer and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell on September 7, 2016 in Macon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 47-year-old Galveston man formerly employed at Texas A&M University has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Matthew Irwin pleaded guilty March 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of India and one resident of Canada have been sentenced in federal court on convictions stemming from their roles in an online drug distribution and money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a total of $13 million to be awarded to twelve multi-year research projects intended to develop cost efficient and effective ways to mitigate methane emissions from natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure. The research will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PETER TORRES, 48, of East Lyme, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to three months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging BRIAN...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Cary, Ill. man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for the robberies of the Fifth Third Bank branch located at 265 West Virginia, Crystal Lake, Illinois, on March 30, 2015, and the Fifth Third Bank branch located 1745 South Eastwood Drive, Woodstock, Ill., on April 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Neiman Groce, 31, of Poultney, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 18 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of wire fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, man was convicted today by a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania of 16 counts of failing to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Maryland MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty to Violent Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced Erick Halkier Hansen, age 58, of Inglewood, California, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice to five years in federal prison as a result of his conviction for Conspiracy...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say after the Justice Department Office of Inspector General released a report Thursday detailing the botched storefront operations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The report included the operation in Milwaukee dubbed “Operation Fearless.".
By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on the role of the National Security Council (NSC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Hector Cisneros-Ibarra, a/k/a “Hector Ibarra Cisneros," 38, of Landenberg, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 22, 2014, Cisneros-Ibarra, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about May 5, 2006, July 6, 2006 and November 4, 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Darmetrius Braggs, 19, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Victim's Sweatshirt Was Grazed by One of the Bullets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Today the United States moved to dismiss the charges against Robert F. McDonnell and his wife Maureen McDonnell.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: A three-count criminal information was filed charging a Waterville man with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollas from Construction Contractors Employer Group LLC, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
