News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Following the Senate vote to proceed with debate on the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ashlee Cook, 24, of Leichester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to recruit an underage girl to commit a commercial sex act before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: PASCO, WASHINGTON - In response to a request for assistance from United States Attorney Michael C. Ormsby and Pasco Police Chief Robert Metzger, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services today announced it will offer technical assistance and training to the Pasco Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - First Tennessee Bank, N.A. (“First Tennessee") has agreed to pay the United States $212.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that did not meet applicable requirements, the Justice Department announced today. First Tennessee is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following joint statement on proposed Senate amendments to the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048)...
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed bipartisan legislation to protect international cultural property from being destroyed or looted by ISIS. The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (H.R. 1493 ), introduced by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), improves coordination of U.S. efforts to protect cultural property, and prevent artifacts removed since the start of Syria’s civil war from being sold or imported into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: A group of home health care companies collectively known as “Friendship" and the companies’ owner Theophilus Egbujor paid $6.5 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that they improperly billed TennCare, Medicare and TRICARE for home health services, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service pleaded guilty in federal court today to using stolen identities in a scheme to receive $326,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Every month, somewhere in the U.S., two people die in trench cave-ins - buried or crushed by the tremendous weight of falling earth. In fact, one cubic yard of soil can be equal to the weight of a small automobile, about 3,000 pounds. These needless deaths can be prevented with proper cave-in protections.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE - On June 6, 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites trail lovers of all ages to Campbell Tract to celebrate trails and make the tract safer in the event of wildfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee has announced the following hearings and meeting for next week.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: For more than six years the Department of the Interior (DOI) has been without a permanent Inspector General which has
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Fredi Becerril (a/k/a Ademar Becerril, a/k/a Pitufo) was sentenced today to 196 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Tatum King, and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano.
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today applauded House passage of his legislation to limit a critical source of funding for ISIS while at the same time improving efforts to preserve and protect cultural artifacts from looting...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: FY 2016 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Act. Highlights and Key Points. The 2016 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill fails to protect the safety and security of hardworking Americans, proposing massive cuts to critical community policing services, law enforcement grants, and priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Mexican man pleaded guilty Monday to laundering more than $4.7 million in drug funds through his bank accounts in Kansas and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne team conspired to rob Fishers bank - sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced the final defendants tied to a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Northwest Arkansas were sentenced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: Taxpayer confidence in the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) ability to safeguard personal information is critical to our nation’s system of voluntary tax compliance. The IRS’s announcement that cyber attackers took advantage of IRS system vulnerabilities to access 104,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Arica M. Boyles, 27, of Kerens, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
