News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover man was sentenced today for stealing more than $149,000 in Social Security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: MONTGOMERY, AL - The ringleader of a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme and former nightclub owner was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Alabama, for stolen identity refund fraud related crimes, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former information technology manager for a Northbrook-based company was indicted Tuesday for allegedly damaging servers maintained by the company, intercepting company emails without authorization, and disclosing the contents of intercepted emails without authorization. The defendant, George...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In separate actions, the United States has asked a federal court in South Carolina to permanently bar two South Carolina men from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today responded to the House-Senate introduction of TPA legislation by releasing a document detailing how the bill falls short. It can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Used Stolen Identities in Attempts to Finance Expensive Cars and Obtain High-Limit Credit Cards; Then Used Another Victim’s Stolen Identity While on Pre-Trial Supervision to Obtain Credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alejandro Morales-Flores, 60, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Houston, has entered a plea of guilty in McAllen federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: “Find Your Park" is the theme for this year’s celebration of National Park Week, which is taking place April 18-26. It is a celebration of the upcoming centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and sets the stage for the agency’s second century of service.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: In a collaborative effort between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the two agencies hosted Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement training in Kuwait the week of March 22. It was the first training of its kind held in Kuwait in 10 years.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released new guidance concerning employee wellness programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Shavon Tavin Anderson (22, Nassau County) yesterday pleaded guilty to two counts of distribution of cocaine and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. April 16, 2015 15-020. Amy Bartlett. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Lake Yellowstone Hotel Designated National Historic...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, the bipartisan compromise reached by Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to rewrite the broken No Child Left Behind law. The legislation passed unanimously through the HELP Committee and now moves to the Senate floor. Following the vote, Senator Murray released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the conviction of a former official of the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology who engaged in a bribery scheme to sell answers to upcoming Board-administered cosmetology examinations for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced an Etowah County man to 80 years in prison for exploiting two young children to produce child pornography, and for possessing about 1,500 pornographic videos and images of other children, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans Acting Special Agent in Charge Cindy M. Johnson and Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Entrance fees to Glacier National Park, as well as other units of the National Park Service, will be waived this weekend, April 18-19, in honor of National Park Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - ― Three members of an international synthetic drug-trafficking organization-responsible for selling synthetic drugs with brand names like Twilite, Passion Sense, Stoopid, Black Diamond, and Platinum-were arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The federal charges were unsealed in the Northern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing Bank Midwest with a pellet gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against a Topeka man who was charged in a criminal complaint last week with plotting to explode a bomb at the Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
