News from December 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Letters to Treasury & HHS on Cost-Sharing Reduction Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Pittston man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Scranton on heroin trafficking and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Following a two day federal trial, a Montana jury found Olaf James Haugen, 29, of Lame Deer, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse on Tuesday. Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. A date for sentencing has not been set.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bill sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), S. 2127, the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2015, passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by a unanimous vote of 16 to 0 on Wednesday.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the East Bay Regional Park District’s Contra Loma Boat Launch Facility Improvements Project.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding recent comments by Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump calling for an end to immigration to the United States by Muslims...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been convicted, following a bench trial, of robbing Commerce Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Buffalo, Mo., elementary school teacher’s assistant was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing and possessing child pornography. Dalton Cole...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former insurance salesman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to tax evasion in connection with the theft of more than $470,000 that he stole from three clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against any official with the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office in connection with the fatal shooting of Victor White.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Carl R. Smith, Jr., 30, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison for transportation in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution and possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. He was also sentenced to an additional 24 months for violating his existing supervised release, making his total sentence 224 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Collierville man has pled guilty to executing two separate fraud schemes that defrauded victims of more than $2 million. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution, in the amount of $891,997.31.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced the trial conviction of FRANK RUSSELL MCCOY, 72, who was indicted on Jan. 22, 2015, in the District of Minnesota. A jury returned a guilty verdict after a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz. The defendant is expected to be sentenced on April 5, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of ongoing bicameral collaboration to protect Medicaid services for the most vulnerable, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) group’s #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on how to prevent Loss of Control (LOC) accidents this flying season.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I have seen the Best Places to Work survey results. I will repeat what I said in September upon the release of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) results: I’m disappointed. We know improving employee satisfaction takes time, and we will not give up. We have an aggressive plan to do this.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Dec. 9-10, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will be in London to participate in the G6+1 Ministerial. Secretary Johnson will meet with his counterparts from six European Union (EU) Member States (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Aargauische Kantonalbank (AKB) reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. The Swiss Bank Program, which was announced on Aug. 29, 2013, provides a path for Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal liabilities in the United States. Swiss ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont seeking a permanent injunction against the Correia Farm Limited Partnership d/b/a Wynsum Holsteins, a dairy farm located in West Addison, Vermont, and its co-owners Anthony and Barbara Correia and their ...
