News from June 2015

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: The 2016 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill would place the health and safety of the American people at risk by slashing critical funding for drinking water and sanitary sewer infrastructure, climate change, and environmental enforcement. Ideological policy riders continue the assault on our environment by undermining the Administration’s ability to keep our land, water, and air clean and protect threatened species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Anthony M. Bruce and James P. Kennedy, Jr., who are handling the case, stated that the defendant, who was formerly a tribal councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI) and who was, in 2006, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Seneca Gaming Corporation (SGC), stole...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Washington D.C. convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to six years in federal prison, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Sean Anthony Nalle, 30, previously pleaded guilty on March 23, 2015 to pawning a semiautomatic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH- Two individuals pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States in the computation and collection of individual and corporate income taxes, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Jeffrey Scott Green, age 53, and Lisa Flaugher-Green, age 52, both of Easley, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to a conspiracy to defraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Eric J. Humphrey, 36, of Amherst, NY, his father, John E. Humphrey, Jr., 55, of Buffalo, NY, and Anthony Taylor, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: One receives a life sentence, two others receive lengthy sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Camps must make reasonable accommodations for all children.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, June 24 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Child Nutrition Assistance: Looking at the Cost of Compliance for States and Schools." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Linden, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for emailing multiple videos and pictures of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Dinosaur,CO - The body of a missing rafter has been recovered by search and rescue staff from Dinosaur National Monument, Moffat County Sheriff's Office and Colorado Parks and Wildlife near Triplet Falls on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Involved in the production and shipment of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Co-Defendant to be Sentenced on Aug. 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Burke County, North Carolina, man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina and Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte, North Carolina, Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment charging Ralik Hamilton, 40, of Niagara Falls, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Kensington, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people indicted in December 2013 have been sentenced in U.S. District Court as of today for participating in a drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - - Joseph Nolan, 59, a Malibu businessman and Ventura County resident, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana cultivated at a warehouse that he owned in Bakersfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES BROWN, also known as “Decky," 25, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a narcotics trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued the following statement today in connection with the agreement in principle among the parties in Nunez v. City of New York embodied in the attached letter filed today with the court.