News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Billings Resident Office, Eastern Montana HIDTA concludes long term, multi-jurisdiction, multi-agency investigation
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, praised a new standard to reduce workplace exposure...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced CHARLES A. LANPHIER, age 69, of Lafayette, Louisiana, to 4 years in federal prison for his role in a lengthy employment tax scheme that defrauded the United States Treasury out of nearly...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Following the release of the Senate Finance Committee’s bipartisan investigative report on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of tax-exempt organizations, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) detailed the report’s findings on Fox News’ Special Report, saying the agency’s broken management and unaccountability ultimately led to inappropriate targeting of conservatives organizations. Chairman Hatch’s views of the report can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Irving Gonzalez-Bocanegra, 25, of Hermosillo, Mexico, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of wire fraud and one count of possession of fifteen or more counterfeit credit cards, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Twitchell Technical Products LLC
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A previously convicted felon from Irvington, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded semiautomatic handgun, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter today to U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Beth Cobert in follow-up to a July 22, 2015 Inspector General (IG) memo. In the memo, the IG advises the Acting Director that “there...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announces today the completion of a Montana operation that convicted thirteen defendants for methamphetamine, firearm, and money laundering charges, involving an estimated $300,000 worth of meth in Montana. Operation Pale Mule joined numerous law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A prison guard was indicted Wednesday on a federal charge of accepting bribes to smuggle tobacco to inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Andre S. Lewis, 26, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with bank robbery and attempted bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on June 15, 2015, Lewis robbed the Wells Fargo Bank located at 2843 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, and, on June 25, 2015 and July 14, 2015, he attempted to rob the Wells Fargo Bank located at 601 W. Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Morristown, NJ - A grand and engaging new gallery for visitors, especially school children, will open in Morristown National Historical Park in late 2016/ early 2017. The Washington Association of New Jersey (WANJ) and Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) are pleased to announce the donation of...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment to provide partial funding for the San Jose Water Company’s construction and operation of three proposed recycled water pipelines located within Santa Clara County, California. The recycled water would be used for landscape irrigation, cooling towers, and toilets in commercial buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Harold Peters, III, 37, of Bradford, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute bath salts and being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Martin Perea, 35, of Los Lunas, N.M., was arrested yesterday by the FBI on a criminal complaint charging him with production and possession of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. During proceedings in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., this morning, a U.S. Magistrate Judge ordered Perea detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Stradivarius Violin, Constructed in 1734, was Missing for 35 Years Before Its Recovery by the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned a five-count indictment that charges Kelton Snyder, of Decatur, Ill., in the April 3, 2015, armed robbery of the Circle K convenience store and the April 5, 2015, murder of Paige Mars, also of Decatur. Snyder, 23, is charged with conspiring to commit...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. Senate last evening approved by voice vote H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act. Committee member Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) authored the bipartisan bill in response to a water emergency last summer caused by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 29-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute more than one kilogram of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Altagracia Guadalupe Vargas, 29, of Laredo, in March 2015 following a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers has announced that on August 6, 2015, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence of Valentino Bagola, 22, of St. Michael, ND. The grand jury indicted Bagola in July 2012, charging him with the deaths of 9-year-old Destiny...
