News from September 2016
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives opposing the to the Prohibiting Future “Ransom" Payments to Iran Act (H.R. 5931 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a North Carolina man was sentenced Wednesday to 63 months in prison for possessing a sexually explicit image of a Lafayette minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Using and Carrying a Firearm During and In Relation to a Crime of Violence, and Witness Tampering.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: W&M Announces Markup of Tax Legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Heroin and Opioid Task Force will be honored later this year with the Attorney General’s Award, the highest honor given by the Justice Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA has issued a public warning to the public and law enforcement nationwide about the health and safety risks of carfentanil. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which itself is 50 times more potent than...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael Nagell, 51, of Georgetown, Maine, was convicted today following a jury trial in U.S. District Court of failing to update his sex offender registration.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last night, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2016. Introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), H.R. 5708 requires the United States to oppose international loans to Nicaragua until the Ortega regime takes serious steps towards democratic reforms.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Exploring a Right to Try for Terminally Ill Patients." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: As of Sept. 21, 2016, 22 fires (human and lightning-caused) have burned more than 62,000 acres in Yellowstone National Park, making it the highest number of acres burned since the historic 1988 fire season when approximately 800,000 acres burned. Of the 22 fires this year, four (the Maple, Buffalo...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jackie Madore, 46, of Rockland was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 110 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Tim Rains 406-888-5838. MEDIA16- 49. CoMotion Dance Project performs Changing Balance/ Balancing Change for Flathead Valley Students. WEST GLACIER, MONT -On Monday, Sept. 12, Flathead Valley students experienced something a little different than your average school day. Nearly 900 students and their...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Camden man pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: During National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week, DOJ Seeks to Prevent New Victims From Succumbing to Addiction and Highlight its Ongoing Commitment to Hold Drug Traffickers Accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department, in coordination with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and other law enforcement partners, today announced wide-ranging enforcement actions - including criminal charges, economic sanctions...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeking The Aviator Serial Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Shavar Spence, a/k/a “Veezy," 32, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to serve 262 months in federal prison for trafficking drugs and unlawfully possessing firearms. After Spence completes his nearly 22-year prison term, he will be supervised by the United States Probation Office for an additional five years. Parole has been abolished in the federal system.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after a meeting with Grigor Hovhannissian, Armenian Ambassador to the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 21, a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has returned an indictment charging Rashaad Schell, age 26, Abington, PA, with unemployment compensation fraud.
