News from August 2015
By DOE 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: Defendant Screamed Homophobic Slurs while Chasing Gay Men with a Knife.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the Committee’s bipartisan investigative report detailing their investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) treatment of organizations applying for tax-exempt status after the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Kenneth Stephen Fagin, Jr., 39, of South Pittsburgh, Tenn., and Terry Bruce Tate, 61, of Manchester, Tenn., were sentenced on July 30, 2015, by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 30 months in federal prison. Fagin was ordered to pay $22,463.59 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Individual Convicted of Conspiracy and Money Laundering for Role in Costa Rican Telemarketing Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AUG 8 TO 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RUBEN GEIGER, age 22, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the “Young Melph Mafia" or “YMM."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Tami Dee Bachart, 47, of McCall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to one year of probation for mailing injurious articles and causing a firearm to be present in a federal facility, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. As part of her sentence, Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered Bachart to serve 200 hours of community service, pay $3,397.28 in restitution and pay a $1,000 fine. Bachart pleaded guilty to the crimes on May 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Federal prosecutors have charged a Birmingham woman with tax evasion and aiding in the preparation of fraudulent tax returns announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER CANALE, a United States Citizen and resident of Jamestown, Kentucky, pled guilty today to willfully failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBARs") with the Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, along with U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Herman E. Aguirre, 41, of Brea, CA, Troy R. Gillon, 41, of Lockport, NY, Darryl...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, is pleased to announce the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today passed S. 1500, the Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging a former employee of the Pantex Federal Credit Union in Borger, Texas, with embezzlement, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held what is to be the first in a series of hearings to examine the criminal justice system in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today actions taken in connection with a federal criminal investigation into an alleged multi-state scheme to illegally distribute diet pills containing sibutramine, a Schedule IV controlled substance, which were falsely labeled and marketed as “all natural" dietary supplements.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member, made the following remarks during an Environment and Public Works Committee markup of several bills, including S. 1324 and S. 1500, which are extremely harmful to public health. S. 1324 would block the President's Clean Power Plan and allow ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY REID, 26, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, the Senate Finance Committee submitted, to the full Senate, our bipartisan report on, to use the official title, “The Internal Revenue Service’s Processing of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Applications for Tax-Exempt Status Submitted by “Political Advocacy" Organizations From 2010-2013.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Goldner, 44, of Glen Mills, PA, pleaded guilty today to a wire fraud and tax evasion after bilking would-be investors. U.S. District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh scheduled a sentencing hearing for Nov. 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RUBEN GEIGER, age 22, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the “Young Melph Mafia" or “YMM.".
