News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - Earlier today, Eric Aronson, the founder and head of Permapave Industries LLC and Permapave USA Corporation (Permapave), was sentenced to 124 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years’ supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $26 million in criminal proceeds. Restitution amount to be determined. Aronson pleaded guilty to securities fraud on Sept. 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alicia Wilson, 37, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of access device fraud, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $28,508.44.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Andrew Reiner, 28, of Cheektowaga, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with enticing a minor for sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, a maximum of life in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake County, Utah, man was convicted Friday by a federal jury of one count of dealing in firearms without a license and five counts of filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Russell Gene Clack, 35, of Bay St. Louis, pled guilty on Sept. 20, 2016 to possession of firearms by a convicted felon in a case involving the undercover purchase of four firearms, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Las Vegas man, Jerry Ba Nguyen, who was a passenger on American Airlines flight 2542 early yesterday morning in route from Ontario, California, to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which was diverted to Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with interference with a flight crew, announced U.S Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: A hearing of the Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will focus on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) leasing for health care facilities, and whether the VA and the General Services Administration (GSA) are ensuring the costs associated with the facilities are managed appropriately.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued the final rule to create a Native Hawaiian government. The rule, which is highly disputed and raises difficult constitutional issues, includes new administrative procedures and criteria for establishing such relationships. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and accessing a protected computer without authorization and obtaining information in order to provide material support to ISIL.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after reports indicated that the ceasefire agreement in war-torn Syria between the U.S. and Russia has collapsed.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary Ernest Moniz announced that 12 partners in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings, Better Plants program have met their energy or water savings goals this year, and 30 new partners have joined the program, representing significant growth for the program to accelerate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Michael Francis Chaney, age 72, of Whiteford, Maryland, today to five years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession and distribution of child pornography. Judge Motz also ordered that upon his...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edwin Murray, 52 of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 75 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Cynthia “Cindy" Williams, 43, of Stetson, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release (including six months of community confinement) for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and oxycodone. She pled guilty to the charge on Jan. 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON CRUZ, a former teacher and debate coach at the Bronx High School for Science, pled guilty today to one count of receiving child pornography. CRUZ, who was arrested on March 5, 2015, entered his plea before United States District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Sept. 23, 2016 - As temperatures drop and the season changes, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are preparing to perform three prescribed burns during the fall of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Child, 11-month-old, Was Held at Gunpoint During the Crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments on the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan." Since the plan was proposed, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power has held eight hearings examining the legality and implementation of this rule. Selected excerpts of testimony from these hearings, as well as links to the hearings and related information, are provided below.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 23, 2016 - The 2012 Mining Subject and Summary Series release comprises seven summary and four subject series reports based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
