News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: A Clay County man was sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, will convene a hearing entitled, “Iran Nuclear Agreement: The Administration’s Case." At the hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will testify before the Committee on the recently completed Iran nuclear agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Robert Thomas Carlson, 40, of Pontiac, Michigan was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Carlson to serve ten years of supervised release following the completion of his prison term and to register as a sexual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that David Mitchell Carter, 49, of Olney, Illinois, was indicted on July 22, 2015, by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois, on one count of Theft of Government Funds. If convicted, Carter faces maximum penalties of ten years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Tuesday, July 28. 10: 0 a.m. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and. Investigations Committee on the Judiciary. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Hearing on: America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic . Witnesses: · The Honorable Michael Botticelli, Director of the White House Office of National ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The United States has reached a civil settlement with CVS Health in connection with allegations that the CVS pharmacy in Carver violated federal regulations related to the sale of prescription drugs.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-A bipartisan group of 125 Members of Congress today called on Secretary of State John Kerry to support equal treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) and their spouses. Leading the effort were Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Spring resident and a Brooklyn, New York, man have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to use stolen identities and file fraudulent federal tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jason Maclaskey, of Spring, and Omar Butt, 31, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, previously pleaded guilty to the respective charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking innovative fish tracking technologies in its first Prize Challenge Competition. The competition, which runs until Aug. 26, will award a total of $20,000 in prize money for solutions that reduce costs and improve fish tracking methods.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Bring your family and friends to celebrate the National Park Service's 99th birthday at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and the Obed Wild and Scenic River on Tuesday, August 25. One night of free camping has been authorized at the Alum Ford Campground (Big South Fork) and Rock Creek Campground (Obed) as well as for all backcountry permits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Galveston, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Kankakee, Ill., man, has been ordered to serve five years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough sentenced David Aaron Neblock 38, on Friday, July 24, 2015. Following his release from prison, Neblock was ordered to remain on federal supervised release for four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 indictments charging 24 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: WHAT: Gateway National Recreation Area hosts the oldest and largest all-women lifeguard tournament in North America. The tournament’s ten contests highlight the fitness, skill, strength and endurance of contestants in what is still a non-traditional line of work for women, showcasing the fact that smart, healthy women save lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Defendants Fraudulently Obtained Over $30 Million in Government Service Contracts Using False Representations, Embezzled Over $1.6 Million from Employee Benefits Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Efrain Arroyo Melendez, aka Frank Feliz Baez, 49, of the Allston section of Boston, Mass., has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin into Providence, R.I., announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Department of State’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: A Richland County woman was sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced legislation to fund an earthquake early warning system that could save lives, reduce injuries, and mitigate infrastructure damage from the devastating effects of a major quake off the Oregon Coast.
