News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ERIC GIVENS, a former police officer with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak"), and the former treasurer of the national union for Amtrak police officers, pled guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court to embezzlement of union funds. GIVENS, who was arrested last summer, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EUELIO MARQUEZ-CHACON, age 40, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Racquel Sanchez, who resided in Lehigh Acres, Fl., and Tucson, Az., during the last two years, was convicted at the conclusion of a federal jury trial of conspiring to distribute at least 50 grams of pure methamphetamine or at least 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Walter Rhodes today on tax evasion, obstructing the administration of internal revenue laws, social security fraud, and aggravated identity theft announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sekou Lashley, age 36, of Exeter, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Scranton to a federal charge of distributing crack cocaine at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in coordination with the Interagency Refuge Water Management Team, has determined that the Central Valley Project Improvement Act Refuge Water Management Plan Criteria for 2010 shall be used as guidance for the 2015 Refuge Water Management Plan submittals.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We are writing to express our deep concern that the State Department has failed to fully implement congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran. This failure amounts to de facto, unilateral relief of a sanctions regime that has long enjoyed broad bipartisan support. As you know, at...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Targeting some of the most common causes of workplace injury and illness in the healthcare industry, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the agency is expanding its use of enforcement resources in hospitals and nursing homes to focus on: musculoskeletal disorders related to patient or resident handling; bloodborne pathogens; workplace violence; tuberculosis and slips, trips and falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Today, United States District Court Chief Judge Richard L. Young, swore Josh Minkler in as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Under federal law, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana appointed Minkler to fill the position effective immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LACEY BLAND, 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to making a false statement to law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: On June 24, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis asked park superintendents to work with their partners and bookstore operators to voluntarily withdraw from sale items that solely depict a Confederate flag. The National Park Service press release can be found here.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders in the House and Senate last week sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, and Social Security Administration Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin, urging collaboration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a stolen handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: An information was filed harging Thronda Deloach, 39, of Willoughby Hills, with three counts of making a false tax teturn and two counts of failure to file income tax return, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Three men from Northeast Ohio were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud about 70 investors out of approximately $17 million, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm Terrell Hodges has sentenced John C. Boschert (43, Apopka) to nine years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston Police officer and former treasurer of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association was charged today with making a false statement to the FBI in connection with his cash loans to a known criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Guilty of Embezzling Money from Bank of the West, Two Indian Tribal Organizations and Several Individual Account Holders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the successful arrest of 13 Hopkins County, Kentucky residents charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic marijuana or “spice.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Under Attack: Federal Cybersecurity and the OPM Data Breach" Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
