News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Will Pay $1.3 Million in Penalties, Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attacked Girl After Coming to Her Home.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Dear Dr. Califf: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs continues to examine the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug approval process and efforts to provide new therapies to treat persons with life-threatening and severely-debilitating illnesses. I write to express...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 21, 2016 - In May 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau held a forum of community members, academics, organization leaders and other experts to gather feedback on testing a Middle Eastern or North African category on the 2015 National Content Test. The meeting and the feedback are summarized in this report: 2015 Forum on Ethnic Groups From the Middle East and North Africa: Meeting Summary and Main Findings.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Mark Sturm, a career natural resource manager, will be the next superintendent at Katmai National Park and Preserve.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern States invites volunteers to help construct a fence to protect the Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area wetland area, Sept. 24, as part of the National Public Lands Day (NPLD) annual celebration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Imad Rawhi Al-Qattawi (47, Ramallah, Palestine) in absentia to eight years and one month in federal prison for distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute UR-144, a synthetic cannabinoid. Synthetic cannabinoids are a group...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The middleman in a five-year insider trading scheme was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for receiving numerous trading tips from a law firm source and passing the tips on to his broker-dealer to trade, yielding net profits of more than $5.6 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILSON VASQUEZ, also known as “Will" and “Pancho," 43, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to heading a large heroin distribution ring.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following testimony before the House Committee on Rules opposing the Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act (H.R. 5931 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and UNM School of Pharmacy’s Generation Rx Representatives to Present Education Program to High School Students.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution, introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), condemning the Iranian regime’s persecution of its Baha’i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan legislation...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of three producers and three industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. All will serve three-year terms of office ending June 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: A doctor who practiced in Warren, Michigan, agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other controlled medications without medical justification, and for billing for medical services without medical justification, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ -National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, anticipate initiating a prescribed fire treatment this fall as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow near the boundary line between...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A prison inmate was sentenced today to a year and three months for possession of a weapon, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Elliott Tubbs, Jr., 30, previously pleaded guilty in July 2016 to the federal crime. This new sentence will run consecutively to the sentence of five years that Tubbs is serving for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced in federal court yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Philip G. Reinhard for his role in a conspiracy to receive, possess, conceal, store, sell, and dispose of stolen firearms and ammunition and other firearms offenses. The defendant, TEOVANNI CUNNINGHAM, 31, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: SEP 21 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Shawn Figoli, 45, of Sidney, Maine, was sentenced 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: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Dwight Smith, 44, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Wednesday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional firearms charges following a three-vehicle collision in which he struck and killed another motorist.
