News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - In a settlement announced today by the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interstate Power and Light, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, has agreed to install pollution control technology and meet stringent emission rates to reduce harmful air pollution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a fourth Jefferson City, Mo., man has been charged along with three co-defendants who were earlier indicted following a police chase that resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 14, 2015, David Allen Cutshall, 31, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve eight years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Federal subsistence registration permits for permit hunts in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will be available starting Monday, July 27, at the park’s Visitor Center in Copper Center and the Slana Ranger Station. The Visitor Center is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: An East St. Louis man was sentenced to a term of life in federal prison, to be followed by additional, consecutive terms in prison totaling 900 months (terms of 240 months, 120 months, 240 months and 300 months, all consecutive to each other and to the term of life in prison) on July 15, 2015, the United...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Criminal Justice Reform: Part I . Criminal Justice Reform: Part II . Witnesses: The Honorable John Cornyn, Senator, Texas. The Honorable Cory Booker, Senator, New Jersey. The Honorable Jim Sensenbrenner, Representative, Wisconsin 5th District. The Honorable Cedric Richmond, Representative, Louisiana 2nd...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Carlos Hernandez-Mejia, age 29, a citizen of El Salvador, Eduardo Hernandez-Lara, age 32, Anabel Maganda-Marcial age 37, and Miguel Salazar-Gomez, age 33, citizens of Mexico, were indicted separately today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on illegal re-entry charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bernie George Baier, 51, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 14, 2015, David Allen Cutshall, 31, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve eight years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review draft Environmental Assessment and Finding Of No Significant Impact documents for the approval of a temporary change in the maximum acceptable concentration of selenium for groundwater pumped into the upper portion of the Delta-Mendota...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - Effective immediately, the Bureau of Reclamation has restricted the boat ramp below Minidoka Dam to official use only due to the poor condition of the ramp and public safety concerns. The boat ramp is located below Minidoka Dam on the Snake River about 12 miles northeast of Rupert, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that five individuals are in custody following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States has settled allegations that a Jacksonville-based compounding pharmacy knowingly billed the government for improper and medically unnecessary compounding pain prescriptions. The allegations resolved included liability under the False Claims Act (FCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales along with Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, announced today that five individuals are in custody following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A west suburban real estate broker was sentenced today to 16 months in federal prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a pair of Chicago apartment buildings.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Copper Country Scavenger Hunt Activity Book.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Republican leaders of three congressional committees today wrote to the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to call for the withdrawal of the administration’s proposed blacklisting guidance and regulation. Expressing concern over the anticipated harmful consequences of the proposal, leaders on the Education and the Workforce Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Small Business Committee explain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that JAMES RODREQUIAS PRESSLEY, 43, of Dunn, North Carolina, was sentenced to life imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. PRESSLEY was convicted by a federal jury on July 30, 2014 on 13 drug related and money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who is handling the case, stated that between June 2013 and Feb. 25, 2014, the defendant conspired with others to buy and sell crack cocaine in the City of Buffalo.
