News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney John A. Horn announced today that the Northern District of Georgia collected $255,099,419 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $12,171,472 was collected in criminal actions and $242,927,947 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Defendant Had More Than 9000 Images and Videos of Child Porn - Many of Infants and Toddlers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced today that the Northern District of Oklahoma collected $2,836,307 in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year (FY) ending Sept. 30, 2015. Of this amount, $1,260,991 was collected in criminal actions and $1,575,316 was collected...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced today that the Northern District of Alabama office collected $2.4 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $1.9 million was collected in criminal actions and $483,146 in civil actions.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nomination of Carol Waller Pope to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority, and Robert A. Salerno and Darlene M. Soltys to be Associate Judges, D.C. Superior Court. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Starr Dana Miller, 22, of Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Dec. 2, 2015, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Miller was arrested on the Wind River Indian Reservation. He received 37 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Merit Construction Services Inc., Farmington, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis announced today that the Central District of Illinois collected $5,769,736 million for taxpayers in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year 2015. Of this amount, $3,402,513 was collected in criminal actions by the Central District and $2,367,233 in civil actions. In addition, working with other Department of Justice entities, $23,420 was collected in criminal actions and $1,362,086 was collected in civil actions.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Symrise Inc., a flavoring and fragrance manufacturer, is located at 172 Industrial Parkway in Branchburg, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that the Eastern District of North Carolina collected $15,047,564.36 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $11,011,638.80 was collected in criminal actions and $4,035,925.56 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An environmental testing company headquartered in Dayton, New Jersey, will pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it failed to follow proper EPA methodology during some of its tests, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHERYL KARCHER, M.D., 57, of Brookfield, Conn., and New York, N.Y., has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government in which she will pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that she violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Burlington - U.S. Attorney Eric S. Miller announced today that the District of Vermont collected $1,295,116.75 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $787,749.50 was collected in criminal actions and $507,367.25 was collected in civil actions.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: A genetic investigation of tropical fire ants has revealed insights into the history of their movement across the globe and voyage to America, according to collaborative research between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and university scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Total Includes Over $12 Million Collected in Cases by District Alone, Over $1 Million in Cases Worked Jointly with DOJ Components, and Nearly $32 Million in Asset Forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin, 55, a Russian national and former Russian army tank commander, was sentenced today to life plus 30 years in prison for conspiring to shoot down American helicopters and to kill U.S. and Afghan soldiers, conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and several other charges relating to an attack he led on U.S. and Afghan forces in Afghanistan in November 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Used Counterfeit Checks to Fraudulently Receive More Than $170,000; One Defendant Allegedly Committed Crimes While on Pretrial Release in Another Federal Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Darryl Bagby, 32, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Kevin Bolton, age 39, of Gurdon, Arkansas, (formerly of Spartanburg, South Carolina) was sentenced today in the United States District Court in Hot Springs to life in prison without the possibility of parole for one count of Kidnapping Resulting in Death. United States District Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NAPTALI ESCOBAR-ARTURO, age 37, from Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
