News from September 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the guilty plea by John Beale, a career employee at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) who was hired in the 1980s during President Reagan's Administration, for theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Lenny Cain, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, late yesterday to 160 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and for possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The mandatory federal budget cuts to law enforcement known as sequestration can best be described as penny wise and pound foolish. Sequestration slashed funding to U.S. Attorneys’ offices without regard to the cost to public safety and the government’s bottom line. The current budget logic forgets that U.S. Attorney’s offices not only protect the public, but also collect more money on behalf of the American taxpayer than they spend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The former Centreville, Illinois, assistant chief of police was sentenced in Federal District Court on Sept. 27, 2013, for making false statements to federal investigators, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Corey Allen, 32, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, a $100 special assessment, a $250 fine, and one year of supervised release following his prison sentence. Allen pled guilty on April 25, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: As A Member Of Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula, Nigerian Man Allegedly Received Weapons Training, Recruited Operatives, And Helped Publish ‘Inspire’ Magazine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A loan officer and a straw purchaser today admitted they conspired to defraud financial institutions as part of a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scam to make illegal profits on over-developed condominiums in the Wildwood, N.J., area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced special agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Task Force arrested an alleged gang leader in Camden this morning for his charged involvement with an illegal drug trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for distributing heroin, which resulted in the death of another Columbia man last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the Bethlehem Police Department. The Department is being allotted $625,000 for the hiring of five school resource officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for two bank robberies in Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Chris Coseglia, 27, from Ohio, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to one charge of being an accessory after the fact to a false statement under the Clean Air Act. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a fine of $125,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park Honors Public Lands Day with Free Entrance MINERAL, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: -Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions-.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Omar Sierre Folk, age 32, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Thursday by Senior United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell to serve 264 months in prison and five years of supervised release for the distribution of crack cocaine and firearms offenses. Folk was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 27, 2013, Anthony R. Renth, 46, of Murphysboro, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement at today’s nomination hearing for Rose Gottemoeller, Frank Rose, and Adam Scheinman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - A high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) was sentenced today to serve 360 months in prison for his role in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Washington -Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the United States and Japan formed a partnership that will recognize the two organic programs as equivalent and allow access to each other's markets.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director John Sandweg, the Puerto Rico U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, and Puerto Rico Police Department Superintendent Hector Pesquera provided ...
