News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal grand jury issued a new indictment yesterday against Henry Lo, the former Chief Financial Officer of San Francisco-based Absolutely New, Inc., announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The indictment alleges Lo committed numerous acts of fraud even as he was being prosecuted for other crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities within Innovation. In her remarks, Murray expressed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Victim, Unarmed, Was Attacked Outside Housing Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that an Anchorage woman has been charged with three counts of fraud and one count of identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A nine count federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging 105 defendants with racketeering, drug trafficking, drive-by shooting murders and related firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico. The ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $420,000 civil penalty against Avion Research Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., for allegedly producing and advertising articles that weren’t authorized for installation on certificated aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - Ray K. Yokoyama, age 54, formerly of Pearl City, Hawaii, was sentenced in federal court today to 350 months in prison for producing images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and making them available over the Internet. United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson also ordered that Yokoyama register as a sex offender, and undergo a lifetime of supervised release following service of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Providence, Rhode Island man was indicted late yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton, on the charge of possession with intent to distribute in excess of one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis today sentenced Michael Anderson Boyce, 29, to five years of probation and eight months of home confinement for Possession of Prison Contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: A new procedure devised by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to extract lunasin from soybean seeds could expedite further studies of this peptide for its cancer-fighting potential and other health benefits.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Thursday, July 23, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the recently completed Iran nuclear agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy Boucher, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 39 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his mail fraud and identity theft convictions. Boucher was also ordered to pay restitution to the victims of his crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following response to the Interior Department’s approval of two conditional permits to Shell to resume its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Dwayne Fitzgerald Jackson, Jr. (23, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to seven counts of commercial robbery and one count of carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KISHA PERKINS, 43, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for participating in a bribe scheme at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury (FCI Danbury) where she was employed as a case manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Paul Ross Pacini, 46, of Rocklin, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Jackson Gillman is so adept at changing into a wide variety of colorful characters, that he is called the "Stand-Up Chameleon."He might be a salty lobsterman one moment, and then one of the various creatures he comes across while fishing the next.Join Jackson for a rollicking mix of interactive songs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Patrick D’Ambrosio, 48, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by information, filed yesterday, with one count of obstruction of mail, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The information that D’Ambrosio was employed by the U.S. Postal Service between May 2014 and January 2015 when he obstructed the passage of approximately 22,500 pieces of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A leader of a coupon counterfeiting ring pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to sell counterfeit coupons using the “Silk Road" online marketplace, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. -Firefighters and fire-fighting resources continue to respond to the Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire on the east side of Glacier National Park. At this time, the fire is estimated to be approximately 2,000 acres. The fire management priorities are safety of public and fire-fighting personnel, protection of property and values at risk, and containment of the fire.
