News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Crystal Dinapoli, formerly known as “Crystal Burch," 23, of Cushing, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to one year of probation for making a false statement to a government agent. Dinapoli pleaded guilty to the charge on April 1, 2015.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the Associated Press released text of a draft agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) covering inspections at the Parchin military site, long suspected of being involved in Iran’s past bomb work. For weeks, Congress has been seeking access to this document.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway) wants you to join the party! We will begin our festivities on Sunday, August 23 at 11 am at Riis Beach, near Bay 9. Come by and learn trivia about the National Park Service (NPS), take a photo at our Find Your Park (FYP) Photo Booth and participate in a beach scavenger hunt.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requesting comments on proposed revisions to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a 48-count indictment late Wednesday afternoon charging Wayne LeMar Palmer, age 60, and Julieann Martin, age 47, both of West Jordan, with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged investment fraud scheme that raised more than $140 million from more than 600 investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charles Douglas Notbohm, Jr., 51, of Tuscon, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his conviction on drug trafficking charges. Notbohm was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Five individuals were charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with distributing oxycodone throughout the North Shore.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - A Florida man, who supplied a network of drug traffickers in Mt. Sterling, Ky., with heroin, has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement following the indication by the Department of Justice that the Social Security Administration (SSA) will retroactively recognize same-sex marriages that occurred before the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced today that Schickell Best, 27, of Gary, Indiana was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release by District Court Judge James Moody after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Fayette Co., WV -West Virginia Division of Highways announces an upcoming closure of the New River from the Grandview Sandbar to McCreery due to the continued construction of the Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge on WV 41 in Prince.This closure is for all commercial and recreational activities including...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RENE CARDONA, a former employee of an afterschool program in the Bronx, was sentenced to 17½ years in prison for producing, receiving, distributing, and possessing child pornography. On April 9, 2015, CARDONA was found guilty by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams following a bench trial. CARDONA, who was arrested on April 30, 2014, has been detained since his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Sharon Harrison, age 48, of Rosedale, Maryland, today to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for embezzling from four non-profit organizations for which she worked. Judge Motz also entered an order that Harrison pay restitution of $1,306,797.70, the total amount that she embezzled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Former Oklahoma State Senator Ricky L. Brinkley pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining over $1.2 million dollars from the Better Business Bureau (“BBB") and subscribing to a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Sexton, 35, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 24 years in federal prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for committing five armed robberies of businesses in the Madison area in 2014. Sexton pleaded guilty to these charges on June 4, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Center for Medical Progress requesting information about whether the group broke federal or state laws during its multi-year effort to establish a fake company, solicit charitable donations as a 501(c)(3) organization, and secretly record videos of Planned Parenthood employees without their consent.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), University of Georgia and the University of Florida scientists worked cooperatively to develop Gulfsnow, a new peach variety.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Tomorrow in Southern California, the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific will convene a field hearing to examine the impact of land grabbing in Southeast Asia. The hearing, entitled “Property Rights and Development in Southeast Asia, " will begin at 10 a.m. PT in the Bronco Student Center on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Evelio Padilla-Zepeda, a Honduran national, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he donned a wetsuit and scuba gear and smuggled 55 pounds of cocaine through an underwater drug tunnel that exited into the All-American Canal just north of the international border.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -Devils Tower National Monument joins over 400 hundred other National Park Service sites in celebration of the 99th birthday of the National Park Service. In recognition of this special day, Devils Tower will waive entrance fees into the Monument on Tuesday, August 25.
