News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a U.S. Postal Service supervisor to 6 months’ home detention and a Postal carrier to 12 months’ probation for accepting cash to deliver marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Postal Inspection Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Julio Cesar Leon-Dominguez, 37, originally from Mexico with illegal reentry into the United States, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Marco Saucedo, 45, of Cactus, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 48 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2016 to one count of unlawful use of a communications facility, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announces that LAVERT LAYMON, age 27, of Gretna, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one count Indictment charging him with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Shawn Figoli, 45, of Sidney, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Dillon James Goff, age 32, of Denver, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 18 years (216 months) in federal prison for firearms violations and methamphetamine trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Frank R. Ish, 58, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Pocatello of unlawful possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ish was charged by indictment on Jan. 27, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, today introduced the Regulatory Relief for Small Businesses, Schools, and Nonprofits Act (H.R. 6094), legislation to require a six-month delay in the effective date of the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule. Without ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a U.S. Postal Service supervisor to 6 months’ home detention and a Postal carrier to 12 months’ probation for accepting cash to deliver marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Postal Inspection Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold public meetings for amending Land Use Plans (LUPs) for BLM-administered lands in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Notice of Intent to Amend the Land Use Plans was published in the Federal Register on June 8, 2016. The Notice of Intent to amend comes in response to changing conditions and demands on public lands managed by BLM in these two states.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), William V. Grady, the District Attorney of Dutchess County, and Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner...
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon, the House of Representatives unanimously passed Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) END Wildlife Trafficking Act (H.R. 2494), which now heads to President Obama’s desk for his signature. The bipartisan legislation helps the United States and partner countries combat today’s unprecedented level of poaching and wildlife trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of two pension related bills, the Miners Protection Act of 2016 and the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is hosting a public meeting to provide information and an opportunity to comment on a proposal to lease the Salida East Recreation Site to Colorado Parks and Wildlife under the Recreation & Public Purposes Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Speakers, Music, and Resources Set for Program at Marvin Gaye Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Pretended to be a Teenage Boy to Entice Minors to Engage in Sexually Explicit Conduct and Conversations Using Social Media, Email and Cell Phone Apps.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that, TIMOTHY DEWAYNE TAYLOR, age 24, of Caney, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 2 years of probation for POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 844(a).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing to examine a recent regulatory proposal from the Department of Education changing the longstanding requirement that federal funds supplement-not supplant-state and local ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announces that starting October 4th, 2016, the Pipestone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: More Than 100 Charged in Wide-Spread Auto Parts Investigation.
