News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Failed To Pay For Delivery Of Millions Of Coupon Books Distributed By The United States Postal Service Throughout The New York Metropolitan Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jenifer E. Hoffman (38, Clermont) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to making a false tax return. She faces up to 20 years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge and up to 3 years in federal prison for the false tax return charge. Hoffman has also agreed to pay more than $11.6 million in restitution to her victims. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announces that Eric S. Miller was sworn in as United States Attorney on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging the owner of a Ramsey, New Jersey, car dealership with defrauding customers and banks out of $1.7 million, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: A Miami resident pled guilty for participating in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving thousands of deceased and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 8, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Internet Governance Progress After ICANN 53."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee members today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) budget development process and fee collection determination as part of the committee’s ongoing oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cindy Conden, age 29, of Hanover Township was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Richard P. Conaboy to 46 months’ imprisonment for aiding in the commission of multiple robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Ivan Zarate-Alvarado, 27, originally from Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon to 87 months in prison following his federal conviction for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the defendant is released from prison, he will serve three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver. (307)344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. Sunday, July 12, marks the celebration of the Horace M. Albright Visitor Center Grand Re-opening and Dedication. After closing the Albright Visitor Center in the fall of 2013, crews reconfigured the building for better accessibility and retrofitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Gary Griffith, 63, of Oceana, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to six months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine. Griffith, who pled guilty last summer, admitted...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today hailed the newly announced Interior Department (DOI) process for formally recognizing Native American tribes. The process, announced in a rulemaking on the so-called Part 83 process for DOI to recognize a tribe at the federal level, will reduce wait times for petitioning Indian Country communities and clarify recognition procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Donald Wayne Lamoureaux, age 68, of Ash Flat, Arkansas, appeared today in The United States District Court in Fort Smith before The Honorable P.K. Holmes, III to enter a Change of Plea...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: MONROE, Ga. - A Georgia storage system manufacturer could have prevented debilitating injuries to two of its workers - each of whom suffered the loss of a finger in separate workplace incidents - if the employer followed safety standards and provided the proper protection on equipment.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. Grayling Creek in northwest Yellowstone National Park will once again be home to a population of its namesake - Arctic grayling. This spring, NPS crews hatched nearly 100,000 grayling eggs in the upper reaches of Grayling Creek and Native westslope cutthroat trout...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Nathaniel Lightford, a/k/a “Taboo," age 35, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, today to 135 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, in connection with his supervision of street distributors belonging to a group known as “Coppin Court" which operated in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, June 29, 2015, Bradley William Monical pled guilty to bank robbery and weapons charges related to a string of armed bank robberies he committed in 2010. Monical pled guilty to three armed bank robberies that occurred in Medford, Klamath Falls and Redmond, Oregon. He also pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee who worked as a supervisory engineer at the VA’s campus in East Orange, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for accepting more than $1.2 million in kickback payments in connection with VA contracts awarded to companies...
