News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Collects $19,428,426.20 in Civil and Criminal Actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A psychiatrist and counselor in a Chicago medical practice were arrested today on charges they falsely diagnosed individuals as disabled in order to help them bypass certain tests for U.S. citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Russian Taliban Fighter Sentenced to Life in Prison in Terrorism Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Rogowski, who handled the case, stated that the defendant was charged as a result of his co-conspirator, Petar Petrov, being arrested on Sept. 2, 2013, as he entered the United States from Canada at the Lewiston Bridge. An alert Customs and Border Patrol officer found...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ruston man was sentenced Wednesday to 147 months in prison for his role in a cocaine conspiracy that stretched across north Louisiana and led to the seizure of more than $517,000 in cash and resulted in charges for seven defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an employee of an Opelousas tax preparation business and her boyfriend pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing customers’ identities in order to pocket income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former congressional staffer pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of receiving child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Thomas M. Class Sr. of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ruston man was sentenced Wednesday to 147 months in prison for his role in a cocaine conspiracy that stretched across north Louisiana and led to the seizure of more than $517,000 in cash and resulted in charges for seven defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Michael W. Cotter announced today that the Montana United States Attorney’s Office collected $4.9 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 related to criminal and civil actions. In some cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office worked in conjunction with litigating components of the U.S. Department of Justice. During the past five fiscal years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana has collected $53.3 million in criminal and civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan T. Cullinane, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on Nov. 25, 2015, the Erie County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence at 116 Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo. Deputies recovered one round of 7.62 X 39...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed the committee’s comprehensive energy bill, H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, which included 15 Democratic amendments and passed by a bipartisan vote of 249 to 174. The bill, sponsored by Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Republicans voted to weaken the United States’ leadership on climate and roll back the progress our country has made in energy efficiency and clean energy. H.R. 8, the deceptively named “North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015," aims to bolster the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $20,000 civil settlement today with Dr. Richard Heller, a psychiatrist in North Andover, Mass., in connection with his uncontrolled storage of patient medication in a self-storage unit and his related failure to maintain proper records.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved important proposals from the Energy and Commerce Committee to improve auto safety and strengthen American energy security as part of the long-term highway bill. The measures build upon the committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a Middle Class Prosperity Project forum today titled, "The Effects Of Poverty On Children's Opportunities."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on multiple charges involving the unlawful distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Orange, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for stealing a car while carrying a firearm in January 2014, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON— On Dec. 1, 2015, in Washington, DC, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, together with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun, co-chaired the first U.S.-China High-Level Joint Dialogue on Cybercrime and Related Issues. Under the commitments ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: PARIS, Dec. 2, 2015 — Climate change is likely to impede progress on reducing undernourishment around the world in the decades ahead, according to a major scientific assessment released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on global food security and its implications for the United States. ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: 92nd Annual Forum's Theme Is Transforming Agriculture: Blending Technology and Tradition WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2015 – The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will host the 92nd Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va. on Feb. 25-26, 2016. The theme for this year's forum is "Transforming Agriculture: ...
