News from July 2015
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 9 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the recently completed Iran nuclear agreement. The hearing is entitled, “Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran (Part III).".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition yesterday in United States District Court in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Brenda Michael, a former Emory University administrative assistant, has been sentenced to one year, six months in federal prison for stealing more than $300,000 in student tuition payments from the university.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Shavon Tavin (22, Nassau County) to five years in federal prison for distributing cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on April 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Shavon Tavin Anderson (22, Nassau County) to five years in federal prison for distributing cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on April 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing methamphetamine for distribution, following a high-speed police chase in Osage Beach, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Charged with Damaging Public Land and Natural Resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Anthony Torrell Tatum, age 37, of Arlington, Virginia, today to 27 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possession of a gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Acting United States Attorney Anthony P. Giorno announced today that Joshua Austin and Latoya Austin, a husband and wife, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon for conduct related to the accepting of bribes in exchange for introducing prohibited objects into a federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special two-hour walking tour on Saturday, August 1 at 10 am, at Sherman Reservation on the Missionary Ridge Battlefield.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D- Ore., today announced he will cosponsor the Voluntary Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) and Trade Enhancement Act, introduced by Senators John Hoeven, R-N.D, and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Popular Road into Yosemite National Park Closed Since Tuesday due to Mudslides and Debris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Gorden Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) announced that Thomas Martinez, 26, of Albuquerque...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Fifteen defendants from Richmond County pleaded guilty during July 2015 to methamphetamine-related offenses, announced Ripley Rand, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. Between the dates of July 6, 2015, and July 13, 2015, these fifteen defendants entered guilty pleas related to their involvement in the manufacture, distribution, and use of methamphetamine in and around Richmond County between 2012 and March of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: “This particular prosecution closes the pipeline of what can be fairly classified as a major source of heroin into this area," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. “Without accounting for any further additives, and at a dosage rate of one milligram per use, the seized drugs alone represent six million individual hits. Given the recent reports of overdoses attributable to this drug, today’s conviction also represents a positive step forward in improving the health of our region.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who handled the case, stated that on Sept. 18, 2012, the defendant sold four grams of heroin for $1,200 to an undercover officer at Massey’s residence on Taunton Place in Buffalo. On Sept. 24, 2012, Massey sold 3.2 grams of heroin to an undercover officer at a residence on Abbotsford Place in Buffalo, in exchange once again for $1,200.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Settles Disability-Based Housing Discrimination Lawsuit with West Virginia Developer.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: To ensure workers, employers, and retirees can continue to access trusted financial advisors, Republican members on the House Education and the Workforce Committee have called on the Department of Labor to withdraw its flawed fiduciary rule. Concerned with the impact the proposal will have on low- and middle-income families and small businesses, the members stated in a letter to Secretary Thomas Perez...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell recently announced the appointment of two local residents to the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A woman who committed Social Security Fraud for approximately five years pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City.
