News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Robbed Stores in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Montgomery Counties in Maryland, and Alexandria and Fairfax County, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Xavier Velvie McCarty, 22, of Muskegon, Michigan, was sentenced to seventy (70) months in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a three-year term of supervised release that will commence once McCarty is released from imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Bureau of Reclamation's Great Plains Regional Director, Michael J. Ryan, announced today Reclamation's decision for Chippewa Cree Tribe to reimburse $3,085,460 of the more than $12 million identified as questionable costs following the Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation involving funds provided to the Tribe between 2006 and 2012 for the Rocky Boy's North Central Montana Regional Water System Project.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: An ISB Special Agent helped find out what went wrong for a hiker in the Smokies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on July 30, 2015, Donald Clark Luger a.k.a. Jody Luger, 64, Fort Yates, ND, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 11 ½ years in prison for aggravated sexual assault by force. Judge Erickson also sentenced Luger to five years supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Minnesota man who worked at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, was sentenced today to 60 months for sexual assault. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota, Acting Executive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Eliot Knecht Friedman, age 57, is a resident of Pikesville, Maryland today to two years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Judge Bredar ordered that upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A native of Mexico, and former resident of the Los Angeles area of California, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for criminal charges regarding his cocaine trafficking and laundering of drug money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport woman was sentenced Thursday to 12 months and one day in prison for stealing more than $39,000 in Social Security benefit payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Kman, age 51, of Harrisburg, pleaded guilty yesterday to production of child pornography before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief operating officer of Sacred Heart Hospital was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison for arranging payoffs to doctors in exchange for referring patients to the now-shuttered facility on Chicago’s West Side.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Washington -Today, on the eve of National Farmers Market Week, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Anne L. Alonzo announced the results of the 2014 Farmers Market Manager Survey. Based on a survey of almost 1,400 farmers market managers from across the country, the results show that farmers markets continue to grow and serve as popular community gathering places.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With another large algal bloom in Lake Erie expected this summer, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Joe Donnelly (D-IN), members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to develop a comprehensive strategy to help communities improve water quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released environmental documents that analyze the impacts of implementing requirements to protect listed species for the operation of the two major water projects in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Runnveer Singh was sentenced today to two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $124,528 for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a bipartisan group of senators highlighted a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examines federal agencies’ efforts to enhance disaster resilience during the Hurricane Sandy recovery process. The report, requested by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.),...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that the defendants participated in the operation of a business known as Big Boys Food Market located at 1129 East Ferry Street in Buffalo. On Nov. 18, 2011, Bandar Alsaidi signed an application to accept food stamps as the sole proprietor of Big Boys. The store was authorized to accept food stamps beginning on Jan. 18, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Christopher R. Glenn, 34, a South Florida Resident, was sentenced on July 31, 2015, to 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, by United States District Judge Kenneth Marra following his guilty plea for violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(e)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Organization Responsible for the Distribution of Between 30 and 90 kilograms of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A convicted felon who robbed a Las Vegas mini-mart in July 2011 using a long-barreled shotgun, was convicted by a federal jury today of robbery and firearm counts and faces up to 34 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
