News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Settles Discrimination Lawsuit Against Texas-Based Kung Fu Saloon Restaurant and Bar.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a heroin supplier to the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of heroin in and around Newark.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park’s free, optional shuttle system that provides shuttle services along the Going-to-the-Sun Road will begin operations July 1 and run through September 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Kevin Justin Esquivel, 24, of Corpus Christi, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Esquivel pleaded guilty March 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bucyrus, Kan., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a bank fraud scheme in which she embezzled more than $543,000 from one employer, and admitted that she also stole more than $188,000 from a subsequent employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Sandra Nixon, a/k/a “Lisa Hart," age 52, of Silver Spring, and Kenneth Dawson, age 52, of Niceville, Florida, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours-hundreds of times longer than the current limit measured in seconds.*
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Blackstone, Mass. man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to charges that he impeded the IRS by cashing nearly $3 million in checks from his masonry business at check cashing services to evade the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Jose Gabriel Mendez was sentenced Monday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute more than $1.5 million worth of cocaine and $75,000 worth of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Walter James Henson, 38, of Salem, Illinois, was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years’ supervised release, a $500 fine and a $200 special assessment. Sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Joshua Linkous Admits to Sexually Assaulting Three Victims.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Jensen, UT & Dinosaur, CO - Fire crews at Dinosaur National Monument continue suppression efforts on a lightning-caused fire in the Ecklund Draw area along the Green River's Lodore Canyon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Throughout the summer construction will be occuring on Seal Cove Road. This construction will involved two closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - VMware Inc. and Carahsoft Technology Corporation have agreed to pay $75.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by misrepresenting their commercial pricing practices and overcharging the government on VMware software products and related services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: STATESBORO, GA - Stacy Williams, 42, of Statesboro, Georgia, was sentenced last week by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 94 months in prison. On Sept. 23, 2014, a jury convicted Williams of conspiracy, wire fraud, wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman today announced the appointment of 129 private-sector members to the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC) and six Agricultural Technical Advisory Committees (ATACs).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists investigated trends in portion sizes and the calorie, sodium, saturated fat and transfat content of popular meal combos at U.S. quick-serve chain restaurants. They found little change in portion sizes during an 18-year period. On a positive note, the study recorded a decline in trans fat content of French fries during the study period.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Olympic National Park is one of 37 national parks selected to receive a 2015 Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. Now in its seventh year, the Active Trails program supports healthy living by getting people out and active in national parks through projects that help restore, protect, and/or create land and water trails across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley joined the FBI, Louisiana State Police, Lafayette Sheriff’s Office, the Lafayette Police Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department and others to discuss civil rights Monday at the UL Lafayette LITE Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jacob W. Deng, 33, was sentenced on June 29, 2015, to 235 months in prison after a jury trial resulted in guilty verdicts on charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Distribution of Methamphetamine, Possession with Intent to Distribute...
