News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Columbia, SC - Joel Perrin Robinson has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a DEA special agent serving a search warrant at Robinson's house. Agents had obtained the warrant to search his home for chemicals used to manufacture PCP.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following House passage of H.R. 907, the United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act of 2015. Authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the legislation, as amended, improves defense cooperation between the United States and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Heroin dealer gets two years in federal prison; two others plead guilty in pill cases.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Oyster Bay, N.Y. - After three and a half years and almost $10 million in repairs and refurbishment, the work on the Theodore Roosevelt House at Sagamore Hill is complete. The house will reopen for regular public tours on July 13, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: A large boulder struck and seriously injured a climber during a rockfall event today, July 7, in Grand Teton National Park. Michael Polmear, 27, of Bethesda, Maryland was ascending the Middle Teton near its black dike feature when a boulder-described by his wife, Stephanie, as "the size of 5-6 microwave...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -A total of 46 volunteers helped clean up the shoreline at Cape Lookout National Seashore's Shackleford Banks on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The event was organized by Cape Lookout National Seashore and the North Carolina Coastal Federation. Volunteers included day campers from the federation's Coastal Discovery Summer Camps and the Kreek Kids from Broad Creek United Methodist Church.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 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 delivered opening remarks as the Senate began floor consideration of the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), the bipartisan legislation she worked on with HELP...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Monroe grocery store owner and workers were sentenced Monday for their roles in a $7 million scheme to exchange SNAP and WIC benefits to customers for cash and ineligible items.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eduardo Lerma, Jr., 32, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 57 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of his supervised release on a prior federal conviction. Lerma will be on supervised release for three years following his term of incarceration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter urging the Maryland Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General to take aggressive action to negotiate an agreement with a company that has been charging exorbitant prices for a critical drug used to treat overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Claudia Rawes to Serve 78 Months, Repay $1.97 Million.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During today’s hearing, “The 2014 Humanitarian Crisis at Our Border: A Review of the Government's Response to Unaccompanied Minors One Year Later, " Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, examined the ongoing progress and combined efforts among federal agencies to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors apprehended by border patrol agents along the U.S. southern border last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Bud Clary Chevrolet of Longview, Washington to resolve a lawsuit it filed on behalf of Darrel Forney, a U.S. Navy Airman from Kelso, Washington. The lawsuit alleged that the company violated the Uniformed Services...
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement after it was announced that negotiations surrounding Iran’s nuclear program will be extended until July 10th...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced the sentencings of 11 defendants in federal court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, July 19 at 2:00 p.m. in the park visitor center, Dr. Lance Janda, Professor of History at Cameron University, will discuss the life and times of Lt. Edward S. Godfrey, one of the more remarkable personalities who fought with the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Washita.Lt. Godfrey, while...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has sued the estate and trusts of the late Layton P. Stuart, former owner and president of One Financial Corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, One Bank & Trust N.A., both based in Little Rock, Arkansas, alleging that Stuart made misrepresentations to induce the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Tessema Lulseged, the owner and operator of Big T Supermarket in Decatur, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to trafficking in food stamps. Lulseged allowed his customers to exchange their food stamp benefits for cash in a scheme that netted him $6.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former district manager of Warner Chilcott Sales U.S., LLC (Warner Chilcott), a pharmaceutical company based in Rockaway, N.J., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to deceive insurance companies and Medicare so that they would cover the costs of Warner Chilcott’s osteoporosis medications, Actonel and Atelvia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced today that Robin Beaty and David Hester have paid $20,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations of trespass and destruction of public property. The Hesters own residential property on Keystone Lake adjacent to property owned by the United States and maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
