News from June 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: On Saturday, June 20, Junior Rangers young and young-at-heart are invited to spend either the morning or afternoon participating in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s (National Lakeshore’s) special Junior Ranger Day. Find Your Park with fun activities for all ages. Children can earn an official...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - William J. McBride, Jr., 49, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 216 months in prison for armed bank robberies in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that on June 4, 2015, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Benjamin L. Whittemore was one of 160 employees of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recognized by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Franklinville, New Jersey, man today admitted mailing fraudulent invoices for non-existent workbooks to more than 73,000 schools throughout the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Carl Joseph Thomas Pisa (24, Casselberry) was arrested yesterday after selling explosive devices to an undercover agent in Winter Park. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Connie and Stephanie Robbins Admit to Billing Medicaid for Services Not Performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy and using firearms in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, has been sentenced, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A former director of human resources for the Illinois Department of Public Health, Roxanne Jackson, has been sentenced to 25 months in federal prison for her part in a bribery and kickback scheme. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ordered Jackson...
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration has been arrested on federal fraud charges for allegedly posing as an active FBI agent and helping a man who posed as a former federal prosecutor to defraud a man who enlisted their help in recovering money lost in two fraudulent investment schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Upton, Mass. woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing more than $128,000 in Social Security benefits and providing false information in applications for subsidized housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Michael Dekota McRae, former legislative clerk in the Iowa Legislature, was arraigned this afternoon on an indictment charging him with false information and hoaxes, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1038(a)(1), announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - On June 10, 2015, members of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Orlando District Office, assisted the Orange County Sheriff’s (OCSO) Narcotics Unit conduct the final stage of Operation Old Cheney. This was a culmination of a four month investigation after the OCSO continually received complaints from business owners regarding individuals selling and buying narcotics in the area of Old Cheney Highway and Semoran Boulevard in Orange County.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Greg Melton, doing business as GM Brokerage, satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of new reports that ISIS has looted and trafficked priceless gold statues, Hebrew scrolls, and ancient coins to fund its campaign of terror, Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today renewed his call for Senate action on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Two additional defendants pled guilty in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Carl Joseph Thomas Pisa (24, Casselberry) was arrested yesterday after selling explosive devices to an undercover agent in Winter Park. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Christian Edward McCabe, age 25, of Denver, was arrested based on a Criminal Complaint after pointing a firearm at a federal government contract guard, and then resisting arrest, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in cooperation with the Federal Protective Service (FPS), a part of the Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following votes by the House of Representatives on trade legislation.
