News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a man who police arrested in Florida on charges of robbing a Wichita bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Dec. 8, 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Celebrate Kwanzaa on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015 at African Burial Ground National Monument in lower Manhattan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the US Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Gary Delima, 26, and Sharif Cargo, 26, both of Brooklyn, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Joseph Troy Williams, 38, of Coolidge, Ariz., a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Tuchi to 168 months in prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release. Williams had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual abuse of a minor. All victims were members of varied Indian Communities and the abuse occurred on the Gila River Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced David Brooks (40, Ohio) to four years in federal prison for mail fraud. The Court ordered that this sentence be served consecutive to a seven-year state sentence in Ohio for a violation of probation, based on the same underlying conduct. As part of his federal sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $792,851, the proceeds of the fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Office also Worked on Cases in which Justice Dept. Collected $10.5 Billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three former civilian employees at the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, and one former employee of a military contractor were sentenced to prison following their guilty pleas to bribery and conspiracy offenses arising from their handling of military trucking contracts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant is eighth convicted in Detroit to Huntington heroin ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of federal extortion and bribery laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON, Texas - Four people have been charged in a $17 million health insurance fraud scheme involving the sale of ketamine to patients without a valid prescription, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Catherine A. Hermsen, Food and Drug Administration - Office of Criminal (FDA-OCI), Kansas City Field Office and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs announced a notice of intent (NOI) to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in February 2016 for inter-tribal organizations to help provide tribal communities with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to implement successful strategic energy solutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio today, former Maverick County Precinct 3 Commissioner and Eagle Pass ISD teacher Jose Luis Rosales and former Maverick County Justice of the Peace and businessman Cesar Iracheta pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the initiation of a dispute by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) challenging China’s discriminatory tax measures on imported regional aircraft...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Gabriel Palacios died after falling 35 feet from a roof while working for San Antonio-based Longhorn Contractors. The company failed to provide appropriate fall protection equipment and training, which led to his death, a federal inspection found.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDY SOSA - the former leader of the "Trinitarios," a violent street and prison gang composed primarily of individuals of Dominican descent - was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Executives of Swiss and Las Vegas Companies Convicted in International Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Repeat Offender Convicted in Minnesota of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Neosho, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing several firearms, including a machine gun.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 9 at 10 a.m. to consider...
