News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the findings of its two civil rights investigations related to Ferguson, Missouri, today. The Justice Department found that the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First, Fourth, and 14th Amendments...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, highlighted a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which found that last summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America was triggered primarily by crime, violence and economic distress.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH RAJKUMAR, 44, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Anthony Trurice Grayson, 30, of Excelsior Springs, was found guilty of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, attempting to manufacture methamphetamine, possessing pseudoephedrine to manufacture methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Laquentin Brown, aka “Nino," 32, originally of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of adult victims in New Orleans and elsewhere, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Brown also pleaded guilty to one count of transportation for purposes of prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that a jury in Athens, Georgia today convicted James Marcus Lloyd, III, age 41 from Charleston, South Carolina of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- A federal jury in Buffalo has returned a verdict of guilty of all counts of an Indictment charging David Allen Vickers, 50, of Stanley, NY with transportation of minors with the intent to have sex, announced U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., of the Western District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal authorities today arrested a Huntsville man on charges he conspired with Huntsville Police Officer Lewis Hall in efforts to fix cocaine trafficking charges against an individual arrested by another Huntsville officer, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Huntsville Police Chief Lewis Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - On March 3, 2015, Donnivan Whitcher of Spokane, Wash. was sentenced after pleading guilty on Nov. 20, 2014 to a federal charge of Arson with Injury. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Whitcher to five years' imprisonment and a three-year term of court supervision upon release from federal prison. Whitcher was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $324,629.90.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday, to filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 22-year-old Monroe County resident was arrested yesterday for allegedly distributing heroin during June and July of last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A woman who failed to surrender to serve a previous sentence for illegal re-entry was sentenced Feb. 27, 2015, to 12 months in in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, highlighted a Fiscal Year 2014 annual report by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that evaluates implementation by federal agencies of the Federal Information Security...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced nine bills Wednesday, including S. 579, the Inspector General Empowerment Act, a bill to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978. This legislation would strengthen the independence of inspectors general, the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former union official pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of union embezzlement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email for official State Department business...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, March 4, 2015 - A new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut shows that children are eating healthier food at school and discarding less food since updated healthy school meal standards took effect in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ALEXSANDR RABIKOV, a native of Belarus and permanent resident of the United States, living in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area, and his girlfriend, YULIA BELOMYTTSEVA, a Russian citizen also residing in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area, were indicted by a federal grand jury Feb. 11, charging the couple with conspiracy to steal government funds and commit aggravated identity theft. They made their initial appearance in federal court in St. Louis today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Gregg A. Kaminsky has been sentenced for wilfully failing to file a Foreign Bank Account Report with the U.S. Department of Treasury in connection with his concealment of income and assets in accounts in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Thailand over several years, as well as his failure to report certain income earned in the virtual world, “Second Life.".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. March 4, 2015 15-014. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Presenters Sought For Seventh Annual Winter Photo Festival...
