News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2015
News Release: Could face from 5-20 years imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2015
News Release: Due to the gradual deterioration of Tropical Depression Hilda and a decrease in forecast wind speeds, park rangers have re-opened all previous storm-related closures within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who went on to operate an immigration consulting service, has been found guilty of participating in a scheme to pay bribes to current government employees to obtain “Green Cards" and citizenship for immigrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Morgan Bush, 33, formerly of Cuba, N.Y., pleaded guilty to theft of mail matter by a postal employee and was sentenced to three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2015
News Release: California Department of Public Health press release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Indictments charging defendants with federal firearms charges were unsealed today. This action follows early morning arrests of many of these defendants, by a multi-agency group of law enforcement led by Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Emad, Jawad and Khader Karaein Sentenced for Role in Multiple Welfare Fraud Schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, Agron Hasbajrami, an Albanian citizen and resident of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 16 years in prison based on his June 2015 guilty plea to attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer recently ruled that Robert and Marcia Konczak are liable to the United States in the sum of $884,666.09 arising from SBA loan guarantees that they failed to pay and fees associated with collection efforts, U.S. Attorney John Walsh announced. The Konczaks were...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal judge sentenced William Jess Foust, 50, of Billings, Montana, to nine years in prison today for being a felon in possession of firearms. Federal District Court Judge Susan P. Watters also sentenced Foust to three years of supervised release. The sentence follows Foust’s March 26, 2015, guilty plea to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: ASHLAND, Va., Aug. 13, 2015 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah joined Under Secretary Kevin Concannon of the Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, community members, and residents of the Laurel Woods Apartments in Ashland, Va., to celebrate ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the 2015 USDA Forest Service's National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge grant recipients. USDA is providing $795,447 in funding to support projects that will help enhance urban forest stewardship, support new employment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Participated in Assault, Kidnapping and Attempted Murder of a State’s Witness A Maryland gang member was sentenced to 188 months in prison today for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: A Tampa, Florida, area investment advisor pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a $9 million investment fraud scheme involving Facebook stock.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Two Southwest Missouri health care providers have agreed to pay the United States $5.5 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today. The two providers are Mercy Health ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to make the Golden Corral in Farmington, New Mexico, accessible to persons with disabilities. The Golden Corral was investigated in conjunction with the department’s Project Civic Access, a Civil ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Agron Hasbajrami, 31, an Albanian citizen and resident of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Pursuant to the terms of his plea agreement, Hasbajrami will be removed from the United States at the conclusion of his sentence. The sentencing proceeding was held before U.S. District Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. District Court of the District of Arizona granted a motion by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to intervene in a private lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio, brought against Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio. In Melendres, the federal court found in May 2013 that the Maricopa ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: On Aug. 13, 2015, the Federal Reserve conducted a floating-rate offering of term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. The operation offered seven-day term deposits with the rate set equal to the sum of the interest rate paid on excess reserves plus a fixed spread of 1 basis point. Following ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, today released the draft Initial Funded Priorities List (FPL) totaling approximately $183 million. Using funds from the settlement with Transocean Deepwater Inc. for initial investments, the Council is ...
