News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 62-year-old Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock of Chesterfield, Missouri, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to internet stalking announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Charter Bank of Corpus Christi, Texas, will maintain uniform pricing policies and pay more than $165,000 as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky - Lawrence J. O’Bryan, a business owner from Louisville, Ky., admitted in federal court today that he participated in a kickback scheme involving the former Secretary of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet, Timothy Longmeyer.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and Keepers of the Kern will sponsor a historical gala Oct. 15 in honor of the 160th anniversary of Keysville.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Four Hampton Roads men have been indicted for their alleged involvement in five murders and five additional shootings in the South Hampton Roads region over approximately one month in late 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mosher, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2016, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has issued a superseding indictment that charges a West Los Angeles pharmacy and its owners with operating a years-long narcotic drug trafficking, money laundering, and tax fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Miller, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking with Respect to Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Leon Wilbern, 56, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with credit union robbery resulting in death and possession and discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death. If convicted, the charges carry a penalty of life in prison or, with the approval of the Attorney General, the death penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Duane William Millar, age 59, of East Lansing, Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving child pornography. As part of his guilty plea, Millar admitted that he had sought out, downloaded, and collected child pornography from the internet and had done so for years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Two residents of the Dominican Republic charged with bulk cash smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene, Polk, Christian, Jasper, Laclede and Webster counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that eight defendants were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of one kilogram or more of a substance containing heroin, possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin, and use of a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement regarding the passing of former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: It is important that the Council on Foreign Relations organized this symposium, as today’s subject reflects a reality that many in Washington have been trying to ignore: the “future of U.S. trade policy" - and indeed global economic integration more generally - is uncertain and needs to be the subject of a thoughtful and inclusive debate.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - Wildland fire officials will lift seasonal fire restrictions on public lands in Southern Nevada managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Nevada Division of Forestry and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Sept. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: A twenty-one year-old Detroit man was taken into custody after a criminal complaint was filed in federal court charging him with using the Internet to transmit a threat, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republicans late yesterday blocked a House vote on an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act by Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) that would have made completion of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline dependent on the Army Corps...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is making available today the approximately 240,000 comments it received as it prepares to perform an in-depth study of the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Federal coal leasing program through a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Coal PEIS).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Employer names: Machinery Maintenance Rebuilders Inc.
