News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today asked theU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in a letter signed by 49 other House Democrats to finalize its long-awaited listing of African lions as “threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. The agency, which proposed the listing more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON, Penn. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a grand jury in Scranton has charged ten men and one woman with conspiring to distribute cocaine, cocaine (crack) and heroin in Monroe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Lauderdale County man on multiple charges of distributing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Spencer Collier, and Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today said his legislation to repeal mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for meat is the surest way to avoid $3.2 billion in trade retaliation following a statement from Canada’s Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz condemning the voluntary labeling system proposed by Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow and North Dakota Senator John Hoeven.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, who handled the case, stated that the defendant and Gregory Magness arranged to become a source of supply for magnesium used in the production of countermeasure flares. Bott thereafter entered into an agreement with ESM Group, Inc., whereby he was compensated based on the amount of magnesium ESM sold for the production of countermeasure flares.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Two criminal informations were filed charging Kieran Kuhn, 33, of Port Washington, N.Y., and Kona Jones Barbera, 35, of Asheville, N.C, each with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Pembroke, Mass., man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to tax charges related to his failure to pay taxes on more than $1.1 million he earned as a carpenter from 1998 through 2006.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents for a project that would allow the Nevada Land Trust to use $250,000 in federal grants to acquire 45 acres of land in Ash Canyon, located west of Carson City, Nev.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A dozen individuals were arrested yesterday morning and charged by complaints following a lengthy law enforcement investigation into a Taunton-based heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a York County woman was sentenced late yesterday to 30 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg, for wire fraud. She was also ordered to pay $83,467.78 in restitution to the victim of the fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today after the House approved H.R. 3236, a bill to fund and extend the authorization for federal highway and transit programs through the end of October...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - William F. Baxley, Jr., the Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Justin Ryan Boles, 32, of Mobile, was sentenced today in federal court for his participation in conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and conspiracy to possess a List I chemical with knowledge it would be used...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Juan Valenzuela, age 40, of Rogers, was found guilty on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, one count of Delivery of a Mixture or Substance Containing Methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 10 Springfield, Mo., area residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a now 29-defendant conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene, Polk, Christian, Jasper, Laclede and Webster counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Former Philadelphia Police Officer Jeffrey Walker, 47, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for a scheme in which he planned to rob a drug dealer while on official duty. Walker pleaded guilty, on Feb. 24, 2014, to attempted robbery which interferes with interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Settles Lawsuit Alleging Disability Discrimination in Housing by the City of Petal, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: An investor advisor pled guilty this afternoon for his involvement in the Rothstein wire fraud conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 29, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced loans and grants for 92 projects worth $18.1 million to help support the start-up or expansion of rural small businesses. These funds are part of more than 20,000 grants and loans to more than 85,000 rural businesses USDA's Rural Business-Cooperative Service has awarded since the start of the Obama administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: A member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political and financial interests of the defendants and others by, among other tactics, misappropriating hundreds of thousands of ...
