News from July 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. “I support removing restrictions on the export of crude oil from the United States and am a co-sponsor of H.R. 702 which would do just that. “This simply makes sense as current export laws are outdated. In the nearly 40 years since laws governing the export of crude oil were...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: As part of its ongoing commitment to improving the health and management of wild horses and burros on federal lands in the West, the Bureau of Land Management today said it will initiate 21 research projects aimed at developing new tools for managing healthy horses and burros on healthy rangelands, including safe and effective ways to slow the population growth rate of the animals and reduce the need to remove animals from the public lands.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke on the House floor in support of H. Res. 310, a resolution to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Fire restrictions will begin Friday in portions of the Bureau of Land Management McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area in western Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Doctor Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Accepting $1.8 Million in Bribes for Test Referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Mitchell Phillip Wolf pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland today to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that a two-count indictment was handed down Tuesday charging Todd Dyer, age 51, a resident of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. The wire fraud count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and the money laundering count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND - Tyrone A. Harrison was sentenced in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, on June 1, 2015 to 25 years in prison for using a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime. This conclusion reflects multiple narcotic buys, search warrants, surveillance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Yves Bolduc, President of the Quebec cattle feed brokerage and manufacturing company, Meunerie Sawyerville, Inc., appeared today in United States District Court in Rutland to enter a plea of guilty on behalf of the Canadian...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Former Murray County, Georgia, Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant L. Cochran has been sentenced to federal prison for orchestrating the false arrest of a woman who had been sexually propositioned by Cochran, for tampering with a witness, for sexually assaulting a county employee, and for illegally searching a county employee’s personal cell phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven Sheely, Sr., age 60 of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William C. Caldwell to 14 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A benefits authorizer at the Social Security Administration in Chicago authorized over $1.9 million in fraudulent benefits to more than 150 recipients who kicked backed cash to him and several others, according to a federal indictment unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Teaneck, New Jersey, man was convicted today of failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to New Jersey in the fall of 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced thatMarco Gordon, 34, of Portland and Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, often referred to as crack cocaine, and to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The president and chief executive officer and two former Asia-based executives of a Las Vegas investment company were indicted today for their roles in an alleged $1.5 billion Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Three Miami real estate developers were sentenced to prison terms today for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of $27.8 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on a GOP amendment introduced by the Chairman of the Interior and Environment Subcommittee defending the Confederate flag on federal property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland woman faces criminal charges related to collecting Section 8 payments for renting a property to a relative, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park is preparing an environmental assessment for the management of the inside North Fork Road and encouraging public comment by August 3. Public comments will help identify issues and alternatives to be considered and evaluated in the planning process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Todd Burke, 52, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison by the United States District Court. The court’s sentence was less than the otherwise applicable guideline of 46 months based on the court’s findings that Burke did not profit from his criminal activity, that he was unlikely to recidivate, and that he lacked a criminal history.
