News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: In Midland today, FBI agents arrested 55-year-old Lorenzo Padilla Hernandez, Presidio County Precinct 3 Commissioner, and 65-year-old Carlos Eduardo Nieto, Special Projects Coordinator for the City of Presidio and Presidio Independent School District trustee, on federal bribery, fraud, and deprivation of honest services charges announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Aragon Miller, 43, of Ponderay, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 57 months in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, and a $5100 special assessment, for possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Miller pleaded guilty on March 1, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Patty Murray (D-WA), and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Mark Takano (D-CA) today introduced a resolution in support of the 2016 federal overtime rule, which would help ensure low-wage workers are being paid fairly by making 4.2 million workers eligible...
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: The Republic of Malta is a small, but strategically located island country 60 miles south of Sicily and 180 miles north of Libya, astride some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Malta, a politically stable parliamentary republic with a free press, is considered a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for foreign investors to do business.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Barry Hance Memorial Award is Park’s Highest Honor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carlos Diaz., 37, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his conviction on heroin trafficking charges resulting from a DEA-led investigation targeting a heroin trafficking ring operating out of Sunland Park, N.M. Diaz was sentenced to an 18-month term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on the status of onshore oil and gas leasing and drill permitting processes on federal lands. Members and witnesses discussed improvements to the duplicative and costly bureaucratic policies discouraging operators from leasing federal minerals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - The following is a summary of misdemeanor immigration prosecutions from June 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged today in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: In the twenty-seven years since Poland discarded communism and the thirteen years since it joined the European Union (EU), Poland’s investment climate has improved and is highly conducive to U.S. investment. Poland’s economy has experienced a long period of uninterrupted economic expansion since 1992.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that HECTOR BARRIOS-PATINO, age 37, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal re-entry of removed alien.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after President Donald Trump announced that the Department of the Interior has taken the first step toward a new Five-Year Program for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Kandace Desmarais, 65, and her brother, Gilbert "Mace" Desmarais, 52, to two years in federal prison for their roles in long-running schemes to promote prostitution at 10 Portland-area strip clubs and adult video...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was arrested today as part of a coordinated federal and state effort that resulted in the arrests of nine individuals who have been charged with firearm-related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - An indictment was returned late yesterday in the United States Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Michael Belfiore, a Merrick, New York, doctor, with two counts of illegal distribution of oxycodone causing the deaths of two Nassau County residents, Edward Martin and John Ubaghs, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Huntington, West Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of inducing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: Norway is a modern, highly developed country with a small but very strong economy. Per capita GDP is among the highest in the world, boosted by success in the oil and gas sector and other world-class industries like shipping, shipbuilding and aquaculture. The major industries are supported by a strong ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park announces the signing of the South Entrance Monument Site Reconfiguration Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). The FONSI records the decision of the National Park Service (NPS) to redesign the South Entrance Monument site and adjacent parking area. The project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dimas Colon-Cruz, 37, of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: By measuring the random jiggling motion of electrons in a resistor, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have contributed to accurate new measurements of the Boltzmann constant, a fundamental scientific value that relates the energy of a system to its temperature. NIST made one measurement in its Boulder, Colorado, laboratory and collaborated on another in China.
