News from September 2016
By USDA Wire | Sep 21, 2016
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 21, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4.3 percent more workers in July 2016 than in July 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. July was the highest monthly total (413,746) since June 2008 and was the 33rd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent (FTE) employment exceeded the same month of the previous year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: An additional stock promoter and a registered securities representative were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue shares in the companies that they and other conspirators secretly controlled, and sell the shares to the investing public at a profit. To date, six defendants have been charged in connection with this fraudulent scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: “Under the modern practice, an impeachment is normally instituted by the House by the adoption of a resolution calling for a committee investigation. This committee may, after investigation, recommend the dismissal of charges or it may recommend impeachment."[1] The effort to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen contains none of the hallmarks of actual impeachment hearings-which would entail an independent investigation and due process for the accused.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
Release: Contact: Amy Slusher (202) 720-6211. NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for projects funded under the Facility Guarantee Program (FGP). Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Jonathan Cordone made the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former chief of the Kickapoo Tribal Volunteer Fire Department was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of setting fires the tribe was paid to fight, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Also indicted was a former volunteer firefighter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Roberto Carlos Lopez, 30, of Mesa, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 84 months in prison, followed by a term of lifetime supervised release. Lopez had previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Dedric Delaine Mayfield, age 39, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock to serve 57 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine continues, the House of Representatives today took action and sent a strong message of support for the Ukrainian people by passing the Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act (H.R. 5094). The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Rep.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has charged seven Eastern Panhandle residents with operating a fraudulent charity that generated millions of dollars in illegal revenue, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Victim Was Left Badly Injured, Bleeding, Unable to Move.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of LEE ANDREW PAUL, a/k/a “Black," 36, to 33 years in prison for sex trafficking three victims, two minor girls and one young woman. On March 18, 2015, a superseding indictment charged PAUL with trafficking all three victims. On Dec. 11, 2015, following a five-day trial before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery, a federal jury convicted PAUL of all charged counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Conspired with Others to Distribute Methamphetamine in Lea County.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper today marked the one year anniversary of the historic decision not to list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act by celebrating the ongoing unprecedented collaborative conservation effort to conserve the sagebrush ecosystem with stakeholders at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Dedric Delaine Mayfield, age 39, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock to serve 57 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Nicholas Graziano, 53, of Melville, New York, and Stephen Graziano, 25, of Morgantown, West Virginia, with distributing synthetic marijuana, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: James C. Poynor, 38, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2016, in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Poynor was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $300 fine and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Miami County man was charged in federal court Tuesday with robbing a bank in Overland Park, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 20, 2016, Richard Lee Doerr, III, 29, formerly of East Carondelet, IL, pled guilty to a five-count Superseding Indictment charging him with Distribution of Child Pornography (Count 1), three...
