News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee conduct a transcribed interview of Sterling Phillips, the CEO of U.S. Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS), a corporation that conducts more background checks than any other contractor for the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: "BNPP banked on never being held to account for its criminal support of countries and entities engaged in acts of terrorism and other atrocities. But that is exactly what we do today. BNPP, the world's fourth largest bank, has agreed to plead guilty and pay penalties of almost $9 billion for performing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Clarks Summit man pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to producing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the below statement regarding the tragic murder of Israeli teenagers Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gilad Shaar:
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Paulette Bryant has been sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing and impeding the IRS’s collection of almost $3 million in payroll taxes that her business withheld from employee paychecks over a ten year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Bank Knowingly And Willfully Moved More Than $8.8 Billion Through The U.S. Financial System On Behalf Of Sanctioned Entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An Alabama resident has been sentenced in federal court to one year probation on her conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: The entire Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park is anticipated to be open to vehicle travel by this weekend, allowing access to Logan Pass. While most snow removal efforts are being completed and snow above the road is being monitored and removed, road crews continue to sweep debris from the Going-to-the-Sun Road, install removable guard rails and road signage, and prepare the Logan Pass Visitor Center and area for opening.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal judge has sentenced Buffy Drake to three years and nine months in prison for filing false tax returns that claimed over $2.5 million in bogus refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: For Child Exploitation Offense. CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Benjamin Maes, 32, of Hinsdale, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on one count of sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas. The investigation began in November, 2012, when an FBI/Metropolitan D.C. Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Dallas Eric Dunmore, age 47, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc....
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Kenton Deon Harrell, 41, has been convicted of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted the Houston resident this morning following four days of trial and approximately three hours of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: OVERNIGHT RESCUE IN LECHUGUILLA CAVE. CARLSBAD, New Mexico - On the evening of Saturday, June 28, a National Park Service volunteer caving team entered Lechuguilla Cave inside Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The purpose was to perform re-rigging and replacement of 20-year-old ropes that park cavers use...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Rhonda Scott, age 52, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with two separate mortgage fraud schemes which resulted in losses of over $2.5 million. Judge Bredar also entered an order that Scott forfeit $2.7 million and pay restitution of $703,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County man who admitted that he intended to assist al-Qai'da by traveling to Pakistan, where he would provide weapons training to members of the terrorist group, was sentenced this morning to 13 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance participated in today's White House event focusing on the important connection between expanding employment opportunities for people leaving prison and their ability to successfully re-enter society.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dedham man previously convicted of armed bank robbery was arrested Friday for allegedly robbing an Attleboro bank in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of a criminal information in U.S. District Court in Scranton on June 27, 2014 charging Kelvin Martinez of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with distributing heroin in Hazelton in 2012 and 2013.
