News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Oscar Anchondo, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating the Hobbs Act by robbing two Albuquerque-area convenience stores at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Danny James Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, Minnesota, pleaded guilty today to federal child pornography charges. As part of his allocution, Heinrich admitted in court that on Oct. 22, 1989, he abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling. Heinrich also admitted that, in January 1989, he abducted and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5577, the “Innovation in Offshore Leasing Act," by voice vote. Introduced by Reps. Garret Graves (R-LA) and Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), it provides the Interior Secretary with the authority to conduct internet-based oil and natural gas lease sales for the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the 30-year sentence, of an Oldham County, Kentucky, man by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., in United States District Court, for aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of a minor. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shane Robert Smith, a/k/a Robert Smith, age 19, of Whitehall, New York, was sentenced today to serve 37 months in prison for illegal possession of a machinegun.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee today sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). The letter stressed the importance of a successful implementation of MACRA so doctors and other health care providers can deliver the quality care their patients deserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Ordered to pay $1,602,327.14 to multiple victims including $268,459.06 to St. Mary’s Church and $245,993.67 to WHAS Crusade for Children.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee today sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). The letter stressed the importance of a successful implementation of MACRA so doctors and other health care providers can deliver the quality care their patients deserve.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to "River Crossing: Design a Ferry," a special Junior Ranger program held at the Parkway visitors center on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 at 10:00 am. How did travelers on the Old Natchez Trace - settlers, armies, and their livestock...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: December 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned an ancient feathered dinosaur fossil to the Chinese government. The fossil, along with other artifacts, were recovered in a joint effort by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in New York, Cleveland and Miami. A Florida...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Jay, Oklahoma, physician, Dr. Darrell R. Mease, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $100,000 to resolve civil allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970 regulates the manufacture and distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced two brothers, owners and operators of the Real Street Paint and Body Shop in Eagle Pass, to federal prison for distributing approximately six kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sean Stinson, 32, of El Paso, Texas, made his initial appearance today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with using interstate communications to threaten the lives and safety of Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) officers. Stinson remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, which have not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Tonique Hatton, 39, of North Little Rock, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and one count of receipt of a bribe in connection with USDA funds intended to feed children in low income areas during the school year and summer.
By State Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today introduced the Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act (H.R. 5931), to ensure there are no future cash payouts to Iran - the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The legislation’s original Republican cosponsors...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland dentist was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay nearly $344,000 in restitution for fraudulently billing Medicaid for more work that not authorized or never done, said Carole S. Rendon, law enforcement officials said.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: PERRYSBURG, Ohio - For the second time in five months, federal inspectors have cited an Indiana framing contractor for failing to protect workers from fall hazards on residential construction sites. Preventable falls account for nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Gust, 26, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for setting fire to a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers of the District of North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Eric S. Mann, age 32, of Howard, Pennsylvania, was ordered detained on Friday after being arrested on August 25 for attempting to coerce and entice a minor into sex.
