News from July 2015
By USDA Wire | Jul 21, 2015
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Kentucky-licensed truck driver Benjamin Scott Brewer to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce following his involvement in a nine-vehicle, six fatality crash that occurred June 25, 2015 along Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of the Obama Administration’s proposed rules to restore overtime protections for millions of Americans. In her remarks, Murray...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Earlier today an indictment was unsealed charging Pablo Cesar Sahagun, 26, of Bakersfield, in connection with laser strikes of a police helicopter and possessing seven bombs, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on July 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A mortgage broker from Middleton was convicted today of attempted bank fraud in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Selina Scott, 52 of Cleveland today for theft of government funds, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kenneth Hampton, 54, an inmate of a federal prison, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with masterminding a scheme under which he and his coconspirators defrauded the City of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania, and innocent owners and purchasers of Philadelphia real estate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Guillermo M. Sanchez, 60, Isabel C. Sanchez, 36, and Gustavo Giral 38, all of Cutler Bay, Florida, are charged in the indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that DeMario Ontrey Ware, age 27, of Rock Hill, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court to 46 months imprisonment with 3 years of supervised release to follow. The sentence is to be served consecutive to the 12 year...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Tuesday, July 28 at 7 pm, Grand Canyon National Park, in concert with the Alternative Break Citizenship School (ABCS), will host award-winning western singer and songwriter Dave Stamey at Shrine of the Ages in Grand Canyon Village. This concert is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Hartville, Mo., man was charged with an additional count of child sexual exploitation in a federal indictment today. Edward Penn, 31, of Hartville, Mo., was charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of mail matter by postal service employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A senior accountant at the Illinois Medical District Commission embezzled nearly $130,000 from the agency by directing funds into her personal accounts while fraudulently claiming the payments had been sent to the agency’s energy provider, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: July 21, 2015 15-046. Julena Campbell or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. The Upper Terrace Drive near Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park reopened to vehicles on Monday after rangers temporarily closed the road due to a new thermal feature that was impacting the drive. Maintenance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Rodney Smith, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit three armed robberies and using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: MILWAUKEE - Students who graduated from Milwaukee private high schools through the city’s pioneering school choice program testified about how the schools helped them succeed academically. One, Justice Shorter, who lost her sight while attending Messmer High School and has since gone on to earn a master’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Nancy Wicker (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: A North Royalton man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for operating a loan-modification scheme in which he defrauded more than 90 homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments out of $286,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, 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, announced that on Tuesday, July 28 at 10 a.m., 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.
