News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Camdenton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for a mail fraud scheme that involved the distribution of more than $1.2 million of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2, from a head shop in Lebanon, Mo.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: The public closure to protect an active peregrine falcon nest at Baxter's Pinnacle near the mouth of Cascade Canyon was lifted on Friday, June 26. For unknown reasons, this year's nesting effort failed and the adult peregrines recently vacated the area. In addition to the nest failure at Baxter's Pinnacle...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the President signed his legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities & Accountability Act (TPA 2015) into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that James Oberfeldt, 31, of Claremont, New Hampshire, appeared in United States District Court today and pled guilty to robbing three banks in October and November of 2013 in violation of federal law.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the United States Supreme Court decision on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to consider the costs of compliance when making rules for electric utilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Michael Andrew Rude, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it. Rude admitted that on April 23, 2015, he had heroin...
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the news that nuclear negotiations with Iran are likely to continue past tomorrow’s June 30th deadline and that Iran’s top negotiator has returned to Tehran to meet with the regime’s leadership...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Stafford S. Maxwell, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Exchange, Inc., has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud for orchestrating a multi-million dollar foreign exchange market Ponzi scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office opened some popular Emerald Mountain trails on June 27 ahead of the scheduled opening day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kamran Ashfaq Malik, age 35, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland today to two years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for unlawfully exporting semi-automatic rifles, parts and accessories to Pakistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that DAVID DEAN CAGLE, age 33, of McAlester, Oklahoma and JESSICA SUZANNE FELIX, age 33, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Willcox, AZ - Southeast Arizona Group Acting Superintendent Julena Campbell announced today that portions of the historic Bonita Canyon Campground in Chiricahua National Monument will be closed beginning Monday, July 6. The campground is located near the mouth of Bonita Canyon and several streams flow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Faulkton, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on June 22, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A former financial customer service specialist for Columbia Management Investment Services (CMIS), a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, is expected to plead guilty in federal court in Providence to defrauding the estate of two deceased sisters from Galway, Ireland of more than $1.2 million dollars, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Ted A. Arruda, Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the United States Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Norman D. West, age 48, of Hyattsville, Maryland and Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit theft of public money in connection with a fraudulent tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Honduras has been sentenced in federal court to 10 months incarceration and one year supervised release on his conviction of illegal re-entry by an alien into the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: She Becomes Top Federal Law Enforcement Officer in Nation’s Largest District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jacksonville residents Mark Laurence Barlaan (35), Winnie Rabaya Barlaan (64), Mary Helen Amaba Barlaan (32), and Peter Laforteza Barlaan (62) with marriage fraud, immigration document...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRIAN HENRY JONES, St. Clair, Missouri, was indicted involving his alleged drug activities in Franklin County.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) rule.
