News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Another feeding program sponsor has been indicted for his role in a scheme to steal federal money. Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Christopher Nichols, age 24, of North Little Rock, has surrendered to authorities after the filing of a 10-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Case Is One of Many Prosecuted By United States Attorney Wigginton Aimed at Those Who Commit Tax Fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today after the House voted to send a measure approving construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline project to the President...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former insurance company service representative in Topeka was indicted Wednesday on federal embezzlement charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Convicted Felon Charged with Unlawful Possession of 36 Firearms and Ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the conviction of one defendant, and the unsealing of an indictment against another defendant, in an ongoing investigation into a check cashing business in Baton Rouge that cashed more than $2.2 million in fraudulently-obtained U.S. Treasury checks during 2012 and 2013.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: “For several months, U.S.-led coalition air strikes have sought to degrade the terrorist threat that ISIL poses to the region. This threat has been growing for too long, jeopardizing key U.S. partners and interests in the Middle East, and inflicting great suffering on the people of Iraq and Syria. All...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank embezzlement, bank fraud, mail fraud, filing a false income tax return, conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Keith I. Glenn, 31, of New York, was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) reintroduced the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015. The legislation aims to uphold the most vital principles of the historic law, which was first enacted 50 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Vicki Mullen Admitted To Diverting Prescription Drugs From Her Employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alex J. Galensky, 32, of, Martins Ferry, Ohio, was convicted today in federal court of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: On President's Day holiday weekend, February 14-16, 2015, Haleakalā National Park will waive entrance fees for all park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved the Student Success Act (H.R. 5). Introduced by Chairman Kline and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN), this responsible legislation will repair ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Thirty-one defendants face federal money laundering charges for their roles in a conspiracy that allegedly laundered more than $100 million in drug proceeds for the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel by purchasing gold, reselling it to companies in Florida and California, then transmitting the money...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Richard H. Barber, 49, of Louisville, IL, was indicted on Feb. 3, 2015, on methamphetamine related charges in a two count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Two physicians who practiced in Warren pleaded guilty today to writing prescriptions for oxycodone without medical justification, and one also pleaded guilty to health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the House passed S.1, legislation to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 11, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement upon final passage of the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. House. The legislation has now been approved with bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate.
