News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Mayor Frank G. Jackson and U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced today the appointment of an 11-member selection panel that will have the duty to appoint 10 representatives to the City of Cleveland Community Police Commission, as detailed in the agreement between the City of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Al Hakeem Muhammad, II, 26, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan and pleaded guilty to one count of misrepresentation of a Social Security number, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita attorney was convicted today of evading federal taxes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Five Elko County residents, including three convicted felons, have been indicted by the federal grand jury in Reno on charges that they possessed multiple stolen firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada and ATF Acting Special Agent in Charge Eric D. Harden.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago resident who accepted cash payments to help 80 people file false bankruptcy petitions as a way of avoiding City of Chicago impound fees was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Oyster Bay, N.Y. - On Sunday, July 12, 2015, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site is excited to welcome the public back into the home of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. Following an extensive rehabilitation project on the structure as well as restorative attention to objects...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: On Saturday, July 18, 2015, park rangers will discuss how Native American warriors, 7th Cavalry Soldiers and other cultures navigated at night before modern technology.Constellations, the moon, and even clocks all helped us find our way in the dark. Join us as we step outside and use telescopes, as well as the naked eye, to navigate the night sky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man was sentenced today to 37 months’ imprisonment by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik for heroin trafficking and firearms charges and a second man involved in the same case pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - Acting United States Attorney Anthony P. Giorno and Special Agent in Charge Clark Settles of ICE-HSI, announced today that the United States government extradited a wartime camp guard to Bosnia last week, following an extended investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and legal proceedings that spanned multiple years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JOSHUA MICHAEL EDMONDSON, 26,of Pinetops, North Carolina, to 79 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - The executive director of a Lexington-based home health agency has agreed to pay the U.S. Government $1,082,416 to settle allegations that she provided unlawful compensation to physicians who referred patients to the agency.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "The 2014 Humanitarian Crisis at Our Border: A Review of the Government's Response to Unaccompanied Minors One Year Later." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A native of Romania who was arrested in Sweden and extradited to the United States was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for directing a large-scale scheme that stole bank account information through a process commonly referred to as “ATM skimming," in which conspirators secretly installed card-reading devices on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Vanita Gupta, the head of the Civil Rights Division, and William C. Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, announced today that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, returned a one-count indictment charging Robert Doggart, 63, with soliciting another person to violate federal civil rights laws by burning down a mosque in Islamberg, a hamlet in Hancock, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Man Charged with Solicitation to Burn Down a Mosque in Islamberg, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge H. Russel Holland to serve 72 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine on two separate occasions.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Witness the structure of life in an 1864 Civil War town under martial law at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, 2015, from 11:00am to 4:00pm. During the summer of 1864, Harpers Ferry served as the staging area for Union General Philip Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: KING SALMON, Alaska - Recent precipitation has moderated fire danger enough that Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alagnak Wild River, and Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve have lifted burn restrictions.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 and Related Issues."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 and Related Issues."
