News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA - An Orange County man who attempted to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was sentenced this afternoon to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nader Elhuzayel, 25, of Anaheim, California, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a lifetime of supervised release for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and other federal offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed two more bipartisan public health bills. To date, over 115 bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills and provisions have cleared the House in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, DEWEY W. WILLIS, JR., 39, of Newport pled guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina during 2010.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, September 29 to examine the Administration’s policies throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The hearing, entitled “Advancing U.S. Interests in Latin America and the Caribbean, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the decision of Gabon’s Constitutional Court to uphold the country’s presidential election results despite ‘obvious anomalies’ found by international observers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jack D. Messerschmidt, 36, of Laurel Hill, Florida, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with the production and possession of child pornography. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) is participating in the 15th annual AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) forum in Washington. Mandated by Royce’s legislative initiative in 2000 to spur trade between the U.S. and countries in Africa that show a commitment to good governance and democratic principles, the forum will explore ways to deepen these critical trade and investment relationships.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Bobby Wade was sentenced today to eight years in prison, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, United States District Judge, following a trial earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking three teenaged girls, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Four Chinese Nationals and China-Based Company Charged with Using Front Companies to Evade U.S. Sanctions Targeting North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile Programs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Williamsport, Md. - C&O Canal National Historical Park invites you to enjoy the season along the Potomac River each Sunday afternoon this October, with ranger-led bike tours from the Williamsport Visitor Center, located at 205 West Potomac Street, Williamsport, Maryland 21795. Tour participants will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA - An Orange County man who attempted to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was sentenced this afternoon to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: FBI Releases 2015 Crime Statistics. After two years of decline, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased 3.9 percent in 2015 when compared with 2014 data, according to FBI figures released today. Property crimes dropped 2.6 percent, marking the 13th straight year the collective...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Lateef Fisher, 38, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced in federal court today to 30 years in prison for selling heroin that resulted in the death of another, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Dear Colleague: I am writing to ask you to join me and 41 bipartisan co-sponsors in supporting S. 2912, the Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2016. Since 2014, 31 states have enacted “right to try" laws with overwhelming bipartisan support-with over 97 percent of legislators voting in favor of the...
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, made the following statement on the signing later today of a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - A Maryland man, who was employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency at the agency’s Rivanna Station in Albemarle County, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville to stealing government property and making false statements, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, CHRISTOPHER DALE MILLER, 41, of Cary, North Carolina, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to making material false statements in connection with sampling required under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
