News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JULIAN MARIE BRESLOW, 53, of Fort Lauderdale, FL to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Francis Hector Calar, age 54, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 84 months in federal prison, followed by 10 years on supervised release, for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a Committee hearing on Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Evaluating Accreditation’s Role in Ensuring Quality. In her opening statement, Murray highlighted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: A man, who assaulted his girlfriend and during the assault pointed a gun at her face and threatened to kill her, was sentenced June 16, 2015, to 13 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt raising a number questions about how the agency issues the Advanced...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined Obamacare’s failures and detailed how the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on the administration’s unlawful implementation of the health law could, once again, cause another disruption in the health care of millions.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: The Frederick Douglass Bible, used earlier today by Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her official installation ceremony, will be on temporary display at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site visitor center through July 5. The park is free and open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHARLIE ENGLISH III, age 33, a resident of LaPlace, was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - Earlier today, Paul Sullivan, a Long Island-based investment advisor, was sentenced in federal court to 55 months’ imprisonment. In November 2013, Sullivan pleaded guilty to wire fraud for engaging in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of approximately $1.9 million. As part of the sentence, Sullivan was also sentenced to 3 years’ supervised release and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution to the victims of his fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, Nevada, is hosting our first ever wild horse adoption event at the Reno Rodeo Livestock Events Center Sunday, June 21, at 2 p.m.Twenty wild horses from BLM-administered public lands in Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming will be offered for adoption at the conclusion of the Extreme...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III and Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division announced today the indictment by a federal grand jury of U.S. Bureau of Prison (BOP) Correction Officers (COs) William Houghton and Eddie Rodas-Castro.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Brandon Peralez, 29, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with unlawful importation of and conspiracy to import Alpha PVP, a Schedule I controlled substance and attempted possession of Alpha PVP with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Reginald Howard, Jr. (36, Ocala) guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled. Howard was indicted on January 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Christopher Lee Saunders, 42, of Beckley, West Virginia, plead guilty in federal court in Beckley to distributing oxymorphone. Saunders admitted that on Jan. 22, 2015, he sold oxymorphone to a confidential informant working with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on the WalMart parking lot located at Robert C. Byrd Drive in MacArthur, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pays Federal and State Governments $5.9 Million and Makes Admissions as to Its Conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HUMBERTO SOTO, 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced the “Save Oak Flat Act," which repeals a recent congressional giveaway of sacred Native American land to a company called Resolution Copper co-owned by multinational mining conglomerates Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico affects nationally important commercial and recreational fisheries and threatens the region's economy. Hypoxic zones hold very little oxygen, and are caused by excessive nutrient pollution, primarily from activities such as agriculture and wastewater. The low oxygen levels cannot support most marine life and habitats in near-bottom waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: A Sterling Heights man was sentenced to almost six years in federal prison today for sports bribery, fraud and unlawfully possessing a gun, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Steven Anthony Major, 50, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for threatening to murder United States Senator Joseph Manchin, III, and his family members.
