News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Let me begin today by thanking Chairman Hatch and the members of this committee for their diligent, bipartisan work in bringing this package together.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Achille Heywood, 32, made his initial appearance Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a four-count Information with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Possession of Ammunition by a Convicted Felon, Possession with Intent to Distribute Narcotics...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Raymond, 33, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 39 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Over the past decade, there has been an increased incidence of bird deaths in Lake Michigan due to Type E avian botulism. Over 6,500 dead birds have been documented within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) alone. Scientists from the National Park Service, U.S. Geological...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - Two men who invited a third man to use their Bellevue, Washington apartment for the illegal manufacturing of hash oil were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 13, 2015, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Hollidaysburg, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of willful failure to remit employment taxes, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Three Nigerian nationals were arrested today, charged by criminal complaint with fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with two schemes using stolen personal identification information. In addition to the arrests, more than 130 law enforcement officers from nine agencies executed 17 search warrants as part of this ongoing investigation.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Guardsmen officer at the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Coraopolis, Pa., has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard of tens of thousands of dollars in military pay and benefits, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Mustafa Sharif, age 63, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and bribery in connection with a scheme in which commercial haulers paid Department of Public Works (DPW) employees cash in return for allowing the haulers to deposit trash at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill) without paying the required disposal fees. Adam Williams, Jr., age 52, of Randallstown, pleaded guilty to the same charges on July 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Thomas Lee Jones, 25, of Canton, with bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: On July 22, 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold its quarterly oil and gas lease sale in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A total of 70 parcels for a total of 24,798.48 subsurface acres on public lands in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico will be offered. In New Mexico, the parcels are located in Roosevelt...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, July 23 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing titled, “Examining the Costs and Consequences of the Administration’s Overtime Proposal." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment (the “Indictment")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island woman and her two daughters have been charged with federal wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud immigrants of hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Johnsie Boone-Brown, 47, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the defendant received retirement benefits intended for her mother, after her mother’s death in May 2009 until her fraud was discovered in April 2014. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of approximately $22,569.86.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 38-year-old former Hopkins County school teacher has been indicted for child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Over 3,000 Images and 267 Videos Seized in Search of Defendant's Residence.
