News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Wednesday, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Abdul Mannan, 32, of Sacramento, charging him with four counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Guerra, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant is charged in connection with an incident at Molly’s Pub in Buffalo in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Three people, including a Coachella Valley man who allegedly posed as a war hero and a successful attorney, have been charged by a federal grand jury for their roles in a variety of fraudulent schemes that victimized at least 20 investors and caused losses of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Miguel Angel Castillo, 38, and Noel Alberto Manon, 29, both of Reading, PA, were charged by indictment, unsealed today, with dealing in firearms without a license, unlawful possession of firearms, and related offenses. Manon is additionally charged with distribution of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for using phony documents and “straw buyers" to fraudulently secure millions of dollars in discounted computer equipment from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: A partial closure of the Yockanookany section of the Natchez Trace Scenic Trail will be in effect from July 20, 2015 through July 31, 2015. The temporary closure is needed for repairs to a gas pipeline in this area. The trail will be closed from the River Bend pull-off (milepost 122.6) to the Cypress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 15, 2015, Stephen Allen Brooks, age 39, formerly of Davenport, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 168 months in prison after pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - An indictment was returned today by a federal grand jury related to two separate drug-related homicides occurring in the City of St. Louis.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act, legislation that would establish physical activity recommendations for children and adults. The bipartisan legislation would call on the Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: A man from Warren, Ohio, and an Indiana man were named in 10-count federal indictment for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud banks out of millions of dollars through fraudulent short sales of gas stations in the Youngstown area and other means, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Julio Contreras, 31, of McAllen, Texas, who was named in a 15 count superseding indictment involving the Schuele Boys Gang, has been arrested by federal law enforcement officers at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, Texas as ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Ahmad D. Fletcher, 24, of Cleveland, with receiving a package containing approximately 1,677 grams of Phencyclidine, or PCP, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Benally, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Littlewater, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction. Benally is the last of three defendants to be sentenced in this case.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) submitted remarks for the record in support of a bipartisan amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act that would address inequalities in educational resources. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 46-50.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration renewed a two-year alliance July 16, with the South Louisiana Service, Transmission, Exploration and Production Safety Network.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following joint statement in response to the decision to open an investigation into allegations that Planned Parenthood altered procedures to “sell" fetal tissues for profit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Brenda Ann Blair, 37, of Bonita Springs, Florida, formerly of Goochland County, Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for participating in a fraud scheme that obtained approximately $2.4 million worth of mortgage backed loans from federally backed financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD KASSEL, an immigration lawyer who conspired to obtain immigration visas for his clients based on fraudulent advanced-degree diplomas and transcripts, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 27...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced Darren Mark Webb, 41, of Monroe, N.C. to six years in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Webb was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release, to register as a sex offender, and to pay $2,500 as restitution to his victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During today’s hearing, “Securing the Border: Understanding Threats and Strategies for the Maritime Border, " Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, emphasized the need for a multi-faceted, multi-layered approach to securing our nation’s vast maritime borders.
