News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE MARTINEZ-ROMERO, age 32, a native of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for illegal entry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Fraud totaled $711,958. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Monroe County, Kentucky tobacco farmer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green yesterday, before District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to charges of crop insurance fraud totaling $711,958 announced Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. According...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on ideas to improve welfare programs to help more families find work and escape poverty.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Johnson Introduces Bill to Improve Integrity of Disability Decisions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Ryan Howe, 52, of Hanover, plead guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Texas man was sentenced to 240 months in prison for conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Winn Parish area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL MONTEIRO, 36, of Wolcott, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two separate criminal conspiracies.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today unanimously approved bipartisan legislation that supports and strengthens the United States Coast Guard, one of our Nation’s five armed services, in its critical missions to save lives, safeguard our shores, and protect living marine resources. The...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Citizen Photographers Compete for Photo Placement on National Public Lands Pass WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2015 – The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the winner of the 2014 "Share the Experience" photography contest and launched the 2015 contest, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Agriculture Secretary also Traveling to Jordan to Sign Food Assistance Agreement WASHINGTON, April 30, 2015 – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, next week to meet his counterparts at the G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting that will focus on food security.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: A Miami-area medical doctor was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a $5.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent billings by a psychiatric hospital in Hollywood, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: An independent contractor for a trucking company in Afghanistan that was responsible for delivering fuel to U.S. Army installations was sentenced to four years in prison today for offering a U.S. Army serviceman $54,000 in bribes to falsify documents confirming the receipt of fuel shipments that were never actually delivered.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the appointment of six new members to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. The following appointments became effective Apr. 29, 2015: * U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly for the District of Connecticut; * U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach for the Northern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Thirteen current and former law enforcement officers and two other individuals have been indicted and arrested for allegedly protecting narcotics shipments and cash proceeds during transit along the east coast for what they believed was a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was actually an undercover operation by the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Kolon Sentenced To Pay $360 Million in Restitution And Fines Kolon Industries Inc., a South Korean industrial company, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, to conspiracy to steal trade secrets involving E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.’s (DuPont) Kevlar technology. The company ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department today announced an agreement with J & R Associates, the owner and operator of the Royal Park Apartments in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, to resolve allegations of discrimination against families with children in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced that Huntsville, Alabama, Police Department Officer Brett Russell, 48, has been charged with deprivation of rights under color of law for allegedly assaulting and injuring G.H., a detainee, on Dec. 23, 2011. Russell also has been charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly filing a false police report regarding this incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: A federal jury in Oklahoma City convicted a Texas man today of running an illegal international gambling enterprise and conspiring to commit money laundering, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Sanford C. Coats of the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida today granted the Justice Department’s motion for summary judgment in United States v. Florida Department of Corrections, holding that the Department of Corrections’ failure to provide a kosher diet violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that John Louis Blalack, 21, of Brandon, Mississippi, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi in Jackson for his role in a federal hate crime conspiracy involving racially motivated assaults, culminating in the death of ...
