News from April 2015
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced the return of an Indictment today charging ROBERT DURST, age 71, with the crime of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of April 13. Members will review draft bills to protect affordable energy, improve chemical safety, and stop abusive patent practices and will also discuss post-acute health care delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today the conviction of Scott Lynn Dillard, 26, of Battle Creek, Michigan on two felony charges following a two-day jury trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A federal jury found Dillard guilty of possessing unregistered firearms, including an MP5 machinegun and two silencers, and possessing stolen firearms, including a.308 caliber sniper rifle.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 25, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (ET). A diverse range of live music acts scheduled to perform includes bluegrass, traditional Appalachian, singer-songwriter, Americana, a flute circle, etc. Scheduled music performances will occur from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Sales of Acclarent, Inc., a medical device company, were charged in an indictment unsealed today with conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Seven Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, residents were indicted today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of public money, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge John Z. Lee for scamming people whom he had persuaded to invest in a bogus lending program involving short-term, high-interest loans to distressed homeowners. The defendant, GREGG E. STEINNAGEL, was also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Charles B. Harris, age 48, of Ninety-Six, South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Anderson, to conspiracy to defraud the United States. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson accepted the plea and will sentence Harris after the U.S. Probation Office has prepared a pre-sentence report.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A second Topeka man was charged Friday in connection with an alleged plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of April 13. Members will review draft bills to protect affordable energy, improve chemical safety, and stop abusive patent practices and will also discuss post-acute health care delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that George E. Haberhehl, Jr., 51, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis, on April 9, 2015, for the crime of Bank Robbery, to 125 months in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 12 years and one month in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, unlawfully possessing a firearm, and aggravated identity theft arising from false statements he made in an application for a U.S. passport, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent-In-Charge David Zebley announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Melrose Park detective was arrested yesterday for allegedly attempting to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The defendant, GREGORY SALVI, was arrested following an investigation by the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months imprisonment, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay $405,717.78 in restitution on his conviction of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Following a four-day trial, a Holyoke man was convicted today of distributing heroin at a strip mall in Holyoke and outside a bank in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the former Executive Director and the former Finance Director of the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council (AITC), a non-profit organization which advocates in support of tribal governments throughout Alaska, each plead guilty in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury indicted former Fresno deputy police chief Keith Foster and six others today, charging them with a variety of drug trafficking offenses, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2015
News Release: An Okeechobee man was sentenced to 24 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $238,734.00 in restitution, by United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, for his participation in a tax fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C.–The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the selection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the lead institution for a new DHS Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (COE). S&T will provide the Coastal Resilience COE with an initial $3 million grant for its first operating year.
