News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Both were convicted felons who had no legal right to possess guns.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: MBDA Contact: vwoods@mbda.gov (Velicia D. Woods), 202-482-0491
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted James J. Stanley, age 28, of Rising Sun, Maryland, today for the attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and for distribution of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Superior Holding, Inc., operating as Superior Boiler Works Inc., Hutchinson, Kansas
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the senior Republican in the United States Senate and longest-serving member in the history of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Tom Carper, D-Del., the most senior Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, introduced the Federal Computer Security Act of 2015, a bill that promotes good "cyber hygiene" within the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The clinical director of a home nursing agency was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Boston following a four-day trial in connection with her role in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kody William Brown, 21, of Inwood, West Virginia, was convicted of making false representations while attempting to purchase a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a bipartisan staff report examining the April 15, 2015 Capitol airspace security breach in which Doug Hughes landed a gyrocopter...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposal from SourceGas to upgrade and potentially re-route a natural gas pipeline that currently transects the Eagle Ranch Subdivision in Eagle County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Jeff Clouse has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing and distributing child pornography via the Internet. Clouse possessed and actively traded child pornography on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that HARDELL MACK, age 43, and MICHEGEL BUTLER, age 40, residents of LaPlace, each pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to fraudulent applications they made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF"), for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Proceeds from the nationally recognized Plein Air for the Park fine art exhibition and sale hit a milestone this year. Since its inception in 2012, the event has raised over $100,000 in proceeds that support multiple Grand Teton National Park programs through funding from the Grand Teton Association.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management generated $2,006,229.50 for leasing rights on parcels offered at the BLM's quarterly federal oil and gas lease auction held Aug. 4, in Cheyenne. Almost half of the bid and rental receipts go to the State of Wyoming.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the statement below after Committee Republicans approved S. 1500, a bill to eliminate the requirement that a Clean Water Act permit is obtained for spraying dangerous pesticides into a body of water. EPW Republicans completed the business meeting without the presence of Committee Democrats.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a report on the committee’s accomplishments in the first seven months of 2015. The mid-session review, which continues Upton’s tradition of periodic reports, highlights the committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, critical...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Aaron T. Holmes, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession and distribution crack cocaine, was sentenced to 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Paid Mexican Nationals for Identification. Agreement includes $731,293.52 restitution. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A resident of Bowling Green, KY, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week, before U.S. District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to charges of mail fraud and of entering into an agreement to defraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Mohamed Alam, 62, of North Andover, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to one year probation in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to Causing Misbranded Drugs to be Introduced into Interstate Commerce. Alam was also ordered to pay a $1000 fine and a money forfeiture of $18,737.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - After an investigation that began in November 2014, members of the DEA Ventura Resident Office and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit shut down a major cocaine distribution organization that was operating in and around San Luis Obispo County. Investigators served...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mark M. Beatty, 56, of Wellston, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to violating the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act by purchasing human remains of Native Americans. The case is the first criminal enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in the Southern District of Ohio.
