News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Ordered to Serve 70 Months in Federal Prison and Pay $11,900 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Juan Carlos Willis, age 41, of Hyattsville, Maryland late yesterday to 61 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use the stolen identity of others to purchase expensive cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A Hidalgo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of pointing a laser at a Department of Public Safety (DPS) aircrew while they were piloting an aircraft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Porfirio De Leon, 25, pleaded guilty Jan. 8, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: On Monday afternoon, June 8, at approximately 12:45, Rocky Mountain National Park's dispatch center received a call that Rick Grigsby, 62, from Estes Park had fallen in a steep off- trail area between Arch Rock and The Pool on the lower Fern Lake trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) released the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 9, the Innovation Act by a vote of 24-8...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: A 2010 Congressional candidate for Florida’s 25th Congressional District, along with the campaign manager for an opposing candidate from a different party pled guilty today to violating federal election laws, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted a number of provisions in the bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 that enhance Congress’ role in trade policy, saying that with Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), Congress - not the administration - maintains the ultimate authority over trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Was Part Of ISIL Foreign Fighter Support Network And Solicited Funds To Send A Co-Defendant Overseas To Join ISIL.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging her to reverse her devastating rejection of a life-saving road for the remote community of King Cove, Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Park rangers will be operating a traffic safety checkpoint in Grand Teton National Park on Friday, June 12, 2015. The goal of the checkpoint is to reduce the number of impaired drivers, and also identify and correct safety violations in order to make park roads safer for the traveling public.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, June 17 to examine the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad regime. The hearing, entitled “Assad’s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks, " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Gail Shurling, 62, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia to Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis of Columbia accepted the guilty plea and will impose Shurling’s sentence after the U.S. Probation Office prepares a presentence report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Manuel Chavez, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court to 180 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Chicago - A former Dolton certified water operator was indicted yesterday on charges that, for several years, he routinely falsified paperwork to make it appear that Dolton was properly sampling its drinking water for microbiological contaminants. Dolton purchases its drinking water from the City of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK-Alaska. The Holland America cruise ship Noordam provided assistance to 40 passengers from a tour vessel experiencing mechanical problems in Glacier Bay, Wednesday.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the consideration of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U. S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a $16.8 million grant to Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport to complete the fourth phase of a multi-phase comprehensive taxiway improvement program for Runways 10/28 and 15R/33L.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: Hugo Morales-Utrera, a/k/a “Hugo Morales-Utrara," a/k/a “Hugo Morales," 43, of Lancaster, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about May 11, 2015, Morales-Utrera, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or Sept. 24, 2004.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard accounts of current and former federal agency whistleblowers during a standing room-only hearing on Thursday. The accounts came just days after the committee heard testimony from two witnesses who blew the whistle on failures at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and are facing retaliation from federal agencies as a result.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A criminal bill of information was filed today in federal court charging Chris Yung Le, 63, of Charlotte, with tax evasion, for using shell companies to hide his and others’ income, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
