News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva introduced a package of three Arizona public land bills yesterday - the Sonoran Desert Heritage Act, the Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act and the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act - that mark the latest step in his ongoing efforts to preserve natural and cultural resources throughout the state. Grijalva will be in Arizona next week and available for media inquiries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced the return of an indictment charging Kelly Custer, 53, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; William Custer, Jr., 26 of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Ashley Custer, 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Sidney Custer, 24, of New Haven, Indiana --- with 1 count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Former Official Accepted $260,000 in Payments from Government Contractor in Exchange for Favorable Treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 24-year-old Folk Nation/Gangster Disciples member Emmanual Lockhart was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for federal sex trafficking violations announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DR. DEVON GOLDING was sentenced yesterday to four months imprisonment and eight months home detention on multiple health care fraud related charges for billing for services not rendered and false statements involving a health care benefit plan. Dr. Golding will also have to pay over $145,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: RESCUE UNDERWAY FOR 2 PEOPLE IN MINE SHAFT.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH - A Tolar, Texas, man was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 720 months in federal prison on a child pornography conviction, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John R. Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The captain of a petroleum barge that exploded in 2005, resulting in the death of a crew member, was sentenced to six months in federal prison today after being convicted of felony maritime negligence and causing thousands of gallons of oil to pollute the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody tax preparer pleaded guilty today to defrauding small-business clients out of nearly $900,000 that his clients had given him to pay their federal payroll taxes.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 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 terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Corporation Previously Paid More Than $80 million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: PIKEVILLE - A former state representative and Pikeville coal operator, Wendell Keith Hall, has been convicted by a jury of bribing a federal mine official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A former private in the New Hampshire National Guard and a current resident of Plaistow, New Hampshire, Eric L. Evers, was sentenced to two years’ probation for stealing a firearm from the New Hampshire National Guard Armory in Manchester, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Tim Durham was resentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson to 50 years in federal prison; the same sentence he originally received after his jury trial on securities and wire fraud charges. Mr. Durham’s sentence means he will effectively spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing over $220 million dollars from nearly 5000 victims, many of whom lost their life’s savings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jonathan Rodriguez Melendez a/k/a ‘Bori", 25, and C.J. Cortes Rodriguez, 28, both of Rochester, New York, have been sentenced by the Hon. Frank P. Geraci, United States District Court, for their roles in an armed heroin trafficking operation which operated in the northeast section of the city of Rochester.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement following the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Joshua Hamilton Purvis was sentenced for possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 2252A(a)(5)(B). Purvis was sentenced to serve 120 months imprisonment and a life time term of supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. -- Reclamation will temporarily lower the water level of Dickinson Reservoir beginning July 5 to allow for maintenance of the dam’s water gate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Doctor is former Chief of Medicine at Stafford Hospital.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Two hundred and thirty bipartisan members of Congress have added their names as co-sponsors of H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, signaling their support for this “exceptional" and “transformational" bill.
