News from September 2016
By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Amid the continued deterioration of democracy in Cambodia, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) sent a letter to Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen urging the Government of Cambodia to stop harassing and brutalizing Kem Sokha and other opposition leaders.
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to aiming his laser pointer at a Kansas City, Mo, Police Department helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a senior member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened the first meeting of Senate and House conferees to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. This meeting marks the first time since 2005 that the Senate and House have held conference on an energy bill.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: I write concerning cybersecurity at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the IRS’s apparent reluctance to implement EINSTEIN network protection on the IRS’s systems. In the wake of recent, high-profile cyberattacks against the IRS, I ask that you immediately address this...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TYLER DAVIS, age 21, of Montegut, Louisiana, was indicted today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Jaime Nieto, 53, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on September 7, 2016, for tax evasion and misuse of a social security number. He received 21 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $200.00 special assessment and $143,243.73 in restitution for unpaid taxes and interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ The owner of a Rio Grande Valley area durable medical equipment (DME) company has been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Veronica Vela, 42, of Mission, entered her plea today before U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, September 7, 2016, the grandson of a deceased Social Security beneficiary was sentenced to prison for stealing more than $294,000 of benefits mistakenly paid to his grandmother following her death. Ricky Lee Carlson, 63, pled guilty to theft of government funds in May, and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Marco A. Hernandez to 12 months and one day in prison.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LORI BROADWAY, age 34, of Galveston, Texas, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one count of possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - Reclamation has awarded a contract for $1.4 million to Gracon, LLC of Loveland, Colorado for fabricating and installing a steel intake bulkhead gate and refurbishing four trash racks and high-pressure slide gates at Lemon Dam located near Durango, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A civilian hospital employee was charged Thursday with setting a woman on fire on Fort Leavenworth in an effort to kill her, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY - On Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 Sagamore Hill National Historic Site will open an exhibition at the Old Orchard Museum titled, Historic Landscape through Modern Eyes: Re-envisioning Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill. The show features the artwork of previous participants in the juried Teaching Studios of Art Plein Air Competition juxtaposed with historic landscapes from Sagamore Hill’s museum collection. The works will be on view through Jan. 15, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin Emergency Stabilization treatments this week on the MM14 Highway 21 fire. On Saturday, Sept. 10, BLM personnel and subject matter experts will be available from 12-1 p.m at the staging area just north of mile marker 14 on Highway 21 to answer questions and provide information about the work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Juan Carlos Lopez, 32, of Lake Elsinore; Rafael Torres-Armenta (Torres), 32; Javier Garcia-Castaneda (Garcia), 38; Carlos Piedra-Murillo (Piedra), 29, all natives and citizens of Mexico, charging them with conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - After 12 weeks of trial, six defendants have been convicted for their roles in wide-ranging racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies that involved seven murders, firearms offenses and related criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Customs and Border Protection Officer Arrested for Receiving Sexual Favors in Exchange for Allowing Aliens to be Smuggled Through His Lane.
