News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sean Johnson a/k/a “Thomas Butler" a/k/a “Wayne Sunderland," 32, of South Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former New England Patriots player and a former bank executive were indicted yesterday in connection with an investment scheme involving fraudulent loans to professional athletes.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer-era crafts and skills at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center from10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.on Saturday, July 25, 2015. The presentations will show the challenges faced, and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Managing Partners Defrauded Investors Out of Millions of Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard A. Resnick, who is handling the case, stated the defendant operated a tax return business known as JRP Tax Consultants in Rochester. Pastore, without the knowledge of clients, prepared fraudulent federal income tax returns. Specifically, the defendant reported false charitable...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Company Pays more than $140,000 to Settle Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Carol G. Bridge, who handled the case, stated that Kumar, a native and citizen of India, came to the United States on a non-immigrant tourist visa on March 27, 2008. After overstaying his visa and remaining in the U.S. illegally, the defendant conspired with Suhkvinder Chhokar...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), released the following statement on the House of Representatives passing the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on July 9, 2015, Devon Cole Reed, 27, Fargo, North Dakota, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 16 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release on two counts of Receiving and Distributing Child Pornography, and three counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Judge Erickson also sentenced Reed to pay $3000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Erosion from large waves earlier this week took out what little sand was left at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Central Avenue Beach. The result is an 8-foot drop-off from the access path down to a mix of clay and asphalt chunks from an old road bed. Due to these...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Nevada State Office welcomes Stephen D. Clutter as chief of communications. He arrives from Phoenix, AZ, and is recently retired as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as director of public affairs for U.S. Air Force Central Command overseas. Prior assignments...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Research showing that those who eat a particular diet have reduced risk of age-related macular degeneration is among the new nutrition and health findings noted in the most recent issue of the Agricultural Research Service's Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has failed to control costs as premiums are set to once again increase and reiterated the need for patient-centered reform to reduce costs and expand choice for American patients and taxpayers.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the administration’s definition of a closely-held corporation following the Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Another Non-Indian, Charged with Aiding and Abetting Murder, is at Large and Considered a Fugitive.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE -The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $911,000 civil penalty against SkyWest Airlines of St. George, Utah, for allegedly operating two aircraft that were not in compliance with federal aviation regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Willie Watson, 38, of East St. Louis, IL, was sentenced this morning in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 18 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on one count of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese Crime Family") was sentenced to a term of 27 months in prison for his leadership role in the Genovese Crime Family. PAGANO pled guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in March 2015 and was sentenced today before by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: MPD Officer Lost Use of His Lower Left Leg.
