News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Malcolm Bolden, age 20, Noel Jones, age 27, and Terrell Dyer, age 29, all of New Orleans, were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin in the New Orleans area. Bolden was also sentenced for one count of distribution of heroin resulting in an overdose death.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO). Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Hearing on “Meeting the Transportation Needs of Rural America". June 24, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Rural roads are rarely in the spotlight. They generally don’t command our attention because they don’t suffer from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RAMON ANTONIO SORIANO-CANIZALEZ, age 28, a citizen of El Salvador, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: USDA research last year also led to process for faster egg pasteurization, new methods of mosquito control.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Dave Aronberg, State Attorney, Office of the State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and Jeffrey...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 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 the latest developments in Iran negotiations. New reports indicate that the agreement is set to offer Tehran high-tech reactors and convert Iran’s underground facility...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Education Affiliates (“EA"), a for-profit education company based in White Marsh, Maryland, has agreed to pay $13,000,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Department of Education for federal student aid for students enrolled in its programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: A Pope County man was convicted on June 23, 2015, on methamphetamine related charges following a two day jury trial, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Files Consent Decree to Ensure Equal Educational Opportunities for All English Learner Students in San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New York men were sentenced to prison today for participating in armed robberies of electronics stores in New Jersey, including armed robberies in Linden, Paramus, and Woodbridge, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Marcus Allen Tyler was the Kitchen Manager at Pal’s Shanty Tavern.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. to consider...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Convinced Victims to Give Him Over $1.9 Million from Retirement Savings, Lines of Credit and Refinanced Mortgages in the False Promise of Receiving Higher Investment Returns.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) made the below opening remarks at today’s House of Representatives Appropriations Committee markup of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education bill. This marks the first time the full committee has considered the legislation in six years. The below remarks are as prepared for delivery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Simon Nicholas Sais, 45, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in federal prison for his methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking convictions. Sais will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Juan Contreras-Cano, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Contreras-Cano will be sentenced to 97 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr., 30, of St. Thomas, to over 60 years in prison for Hobbs Act robbery, discharge of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, and related offenses, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. June 24, 2015 - With another year of continued unprecedented drought, rangers and firefighters would like to remind visitors that fireworks are prohibited in all areas of national parks - including campgrounds, lodges, and other areas within the parks. This prohibition includes so called “safe and sane" fireworks that are sold in various areas throughout the state.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health insurance premiums.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Forty-two defendants are facing state or federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in the area of West Grenshaw Street and Independence Boulevard, in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the city’s west side. An investigation led by agents of the Drug...
