News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - A Cayuga County man was sentenced in federal court today on charges that he used the Internet to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual conduct with him, and for his possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Quinton Paul Handlon (44, Port Charlotte) to life in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography and for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Handlon was found guilty by a jury on October 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a retail business operating on a reservation in the state of New York paid more than $3.5 million in penalties today for its role in a conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Facility in West Roxbury, Mass., and a vendor to that facility were charged today in connection with a scheme to profit from equipment that was ordered by the facility but never delivered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Montgomery Joseph Isner, 47, of Capital Heights, Maryland, was convicted of bank fraud in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Misprison of a Felony was sentenced on June 1, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Christian D. Shelton, 38, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was found guilty on June 4, 2015, by jury trial, of maintaining a drug-involved premises, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: "During April 2015, the Natchez Trace Parkway experienced a slight decrease in the number of recreational visits over the 2014 figures," stated Superintendent Mary Risser. "This year, 513,538 people used the Parkway in April 2015 compared to 513,830 who were counted in 2014.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a supplier of narcotics to a large-scale drug trafficking organization for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged the general manager of Serra Nissan with conspiracy to defraud Nissan North America through its dealership incentive programs, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Fraud totaled over $500,000 for alleged therapy for her child.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today issued the following statement applauding the Republican Study Committee’s commitment to increased research funding at the National Institutes of Health. The RSC, led...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced June 4, 2015 to over 11 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Christian D. Shelton, 38, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was found guilty on June 4, 2015, by jury trial, of maintaining a drug-involved premises, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Vicki Trudell, of Lebanon, Maine, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to twelve months in prison and two years of supervised release for bank and credit card fraud. Trudell was also ordered to pay restitution of $183,963.75, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
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, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement on ISIS’s advances in Syria...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The appearance of algae observed in Lake Mead and Lake Mohave has changed;therefore, National Park Service officials are now advising visitors to avoid swimming in areas where green algae is seen on the surface and where it appears suspended in the water.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- A Grand Canyon National Park search mission continues for Morgan Heimer of Cody, WY, who went missing June 2 at River Mile 213 on the Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TARIQ TAHIR, the owner and operator of DNS Construction Corporation, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to a term of five years of probation and $883,730.52 in restitution for committing two counts...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, June 12, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule."
