News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Mar. 25, 2015, 22 individuals from over nine counties, spanning southeast Tennessee, northern Georgia, and northern Alabama, were arrested for their roles in a large methamphetamine distribution conspiracy centered in Marion County, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM E. CHASE, 69, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing his deceased mother’s social security benefits for more than 25 years.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Under signature of Superintendent Dan Foster, an area of the China Bend climbing area on the west side of the reservoir has been closed to all public use. The closure is in effect to protect nesting raptors in the area from March 25, 2015 to July 15, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Fire Island, New York - On Sunday H&L Contracting resumed dredge operations at Watch Hill on Fire Island. The project, aimed at maintaining safe, public access to marina and docking facilities impacted by Hurricane Sandy, was stalled in early January due to severe winter weather and extensive ice in the Great South Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of North Braddock, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to four years probation, including 12 months of home detention, and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service, on his conviction of income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Zugibe, Rockland County District Attorney, James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and Ed Day, Rockland County Executive, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging 17 defendants with conspiring to distribute oxycodone and heroin in and around Rockland County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Miami, Florida, man today admitted trying to sell seven firearms believed to have belonged to the family of Saddam Hussein, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Eric Campbell has been sentenced to four years, nine months in prison for operating a multi-million dollar surety bond fraud scheme which caused not only financial losses, but also created delays in construction projects across the country and compromised bids resulting in some contracts being awarded to unqualified construction companies.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Chairman Conaway. And thank you for holding today’s hearing to review mandatory biotech laws.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), today introduced bipartisan legislation to safeguard and permanently dispose of the nation’s stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel, which are currently accumulating at separate sites across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 27-year-old Dallas woman appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney and pleaded guilty to a felony drug offense stemming from her role in the March 2014 heroin overdose death of a Dallas teenage girl, Rian Lashley, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Gregory Williams, Jr., 23, of St. Croix, was arrested today and charged in District Court with illegal receipt of firearms, possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and unauthorized possession of firearm, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. Williams made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cannon and was detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 26, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a civil penalty of $116,250 against Neovia Logistics Services, LLC of Irving, Texas, for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing family medicine in East Orange, New Jersey, was sentenced today to nine months in prison for receiving cash kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals and failing to file tax returns on almost $1 million in income over a three-year period, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned three separate indictments charging seven additional members and associates of the Schuele Boys Gang, a group which operated in the Schuele Street area of the East Side of Buffalo. The charges, which include conspiracy to distribute and distribute crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana, carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I have read and carefully considered the Inspector General’s report concerning Deputy Secretary Mayorkas.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 While I disagree with the Inspector General’s report, I will certainly learn from it and from this process. I appreciate and embrace Secretary Johnson’s decision to create a new protocol to ensure the EB-5 program is free from the reality or perception of improper outside influence.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Department Proposes Changes to "Actively Engaged" Rule WASHINGTON, March 24, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a proposed rule to limit farm payments to non-farmers, consistent with requirements Congress mandated in the 2014 Farm Bill. The proposed rule limits farm payments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: An Anchorage, Alaska, man was convicted yesterday for sexually exploiting children in Cambodia over the course of four years and attempting to arrange a child sex tourism trip for himself and others to Cambodia, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Acting Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates released the following statement today at the opening of the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing: “Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy and Members of the Committee, it is an honor to appear before you today. I am very grateful for this opportunity ...
