News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld, II, joined federal law enforcement leaders this week at a summit in Michigan to finalize plans for an initiative designed to enhance interstate collaboration in order to slow the southward flow of drugs from Detroit to the Appalachian Region.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to a company known as Access Funding requesting a meeting and information about how it purchases structured settlements in exchange for lump-sum payments, as well as the adequacy of existing legal protections for settlement recipients.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Three Chicago-area men with prior felony convictions have been indicted on federal gun charges for illegally possessing semiautomatic weapons.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: JACKSON, Mo. - When U.S. Department of Labor inspectors entered a baby diaper recycling facility, they were investigating how a 54-year-old team leader had four fingers amputated in a recycling machine. Inside the Wahlco-D.W. Tool Inc. facility, Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found conditions ripe for another tragedy: Extensive combustible dust and potential sources of ignition could have caused an explosion and fire at the plant.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: A forgotten forage grass imported from Europe in the 1800s could soon begin to help boost cattle and dairy production in parts of the Upper Midwest. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Madison, Wisconsin, recently released the grass for commercial production.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision involving Browning-Ferris Industries.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that four Jacksonville residents who were born in the Philippines have pleaded guilty to immigration fraud offenses. Mark Laurence Barlaan (36) and Winnie Rabaya Barlaan (65) pleaded guilty to marriage fraud and face a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who handled the case, stated that Wittcop possessed child pornography on a laptop computer in Lockport, NY on July 18, 2011. A forensic analysis determined the computer contained over 600 images and video files of child pornography. Wittcopp used peer to peer software to share the images with others through the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Five men have pleaded guilty to multiple felonies arising from a five-year conspiracy to defraud banks by manufacturing fraudulent checks using compromised account information and to deposit the checks into bank accounts under false identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Arizona Man Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning in federal court, Benson Pete, 75, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gamerco, N.M., was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for making a false statement to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Joseph Scott Robertson, 45, of Eldorado, Illinois, was sentenced on Aug. 26, 2015, in United States District Court in Benton to 14 years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute four ounces of highly pure methamphetamine (commonly known as "crystal" or "ice") and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The offenses occurred on Aug. 19, 2014, in Eldorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, Jeffrey Suh, Kang Young Chung, Sophia Lin, and Emily Shim pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud in connection with a $4 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: A former employee at Parma Public Housing Agency was sentenced to more than a year in prison for stealing $232,000 from the agency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) invites the public to attend the grand opening of Schoodic Woods Campground at 3 pm on Wednesday, September 2.A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at the campground ranger station with remarks by The Honorable Angus S. King, Jr., United States Senator;Sheridan Steele...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel M. Harbison has been sentenced to one year, nine months in federal prison for impersonating an armed DEA agent, after having previously been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., sentenced a Charlotte area club owner and entertainment promoter on tax fraud and money laundering charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Adolph R. Shiver, 52, of Charlotte...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Charles Coci, 26, of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 102 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: “My Office has been in communication with the office of Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady, and we will be coordinating and working with his office to investigate the April 21, 2015 death of Samuel Harrell, an inmate at Fishkill Correctional Facility.".
