News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Today, a majority of Americans support new trade agreements. According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, “56 percent of Americans support new trade deals to promote the sale of U.S. goods overseas, with just 13 percent opposed." And, a survey by the Pew Research Center said that 58 percent of Americans believe “trade agreements with other countries have been a good thing for the U.S.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on June 3, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced that it has reached a settlement with Dennis Jaffe and Dennis B. Jaffe D.M.D., P.C., to pay $324,327.05 to settle health fraud claims -- specifically that Jaffe violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently billing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Brunswick, GA - United States Attorney Edward J. Tarver and Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson announced today that a federal indictment and numerous state indictments have been returned charging 21 South Georgia residents with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - The final man arrested in connection with the March 2014 discovery of more than 100 illegal aliens in an area stash house has been ordered to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the second revision to its Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. It includes new guidance on how to tailor traditional IT security controls to accommodate unique ICS performance, reliability and safety requirements, as well as updates to sections on threats and vulnerabilities, risk management, recommended practices, security architectures and security capabilities and tools.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on reports that Malala Yousafzai attackers have been released from prison...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve staff are urging visitors to be cautious and have respect for moose, and all wildlife, especially around cow moose with calves this time of year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Network of Conspirators Submitted $10 Million in Fraudulent Claims & Falsified Documents to Support the Sham Services.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 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 5, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement with Winnewald Day Camp (Winnewald) in Lebanon, New Jersey, to resolve allegations that Winnewald refused to accommodate a child in its summer camp in 2014 because the child had diabetes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to produce fraudulent identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Couple Fled to Moldova after learning of Law Enforcement Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, N.J., man was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute heroin with several members of the “Dirty Block" criminal street gang - several of whom were convicted after a six-week jury trial in January - which used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - The owner and operator of a construction company in Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today following his guilty plea last year to an information charging one count of fraud and false statements, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 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 US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), the Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Members of Congress from Georgia, GDOT, and business leaders from Coca-Cola, UPS, and the Georgia Ports Authority will hold a roundtable meeting in Atlanta next week to discuss the region’s infrastructure, its importance to the economy, and the need for legislation that improves the nation’s highways, bridges, and other transportation systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Thaddeus Emrys Richardson, 30, of McMechen, West Virginia, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for crack cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Nineteen wildland firefighters continue suppression efforts on the edges of the Thunder Creek Fire in North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Ten North Cascades smokejumpers parachuted in yesterday to work beside the Whiskeytown Fire Module firefighters. The crews, who are camping near the remote fire, are being supplied and supported by helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Ishmael Ford-Bey, age 40, of Mitchellville, Maryland, late yesterday to 33 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, using a phone to facilitate drug distribution, ...
