News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Farhan Ali Abu Siam, 42, and Mohammed Abuawada, 26, both of Philadelphia, were charged yesterday by indictment in a conspiracy to defraud a government assistance program, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the federal Food Stamp program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Assaulted Victim in Glover-Archbold Park.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Employer name: K.W. McAvoy & Son Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) Program for Summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former director of a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Marshall, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $100,000 from the shelter and defrauding the state on federal grants earmarked for victims of crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Charles Riley, Jr., age 45, of Salisbury, Maryland, today 20 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and for two counts of possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Billy Roy Myers, 39, of Charleston, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to one year and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Myers pled guilty in December of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ESWIN ESTUARDO MARTINEZ-REYES, age 42, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - The owner, office manager and three doctors associated with a pain management clinic located on the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti border were indicted yesterday for illegally distributing prescription pills, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted six men - five residents of Chambersburg and one from Harrisburg - as part of an investigation of an alleged sex trafficking ring operating in six states and the District of Columbia.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to review a draft of the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) put forward the discussion draft, which builds on the committee’s bipartisan, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Manuel Saldivar-Farias aka “Z-31" or “El Borrado" has been charged with conspiracy to possess marijuana allegations after illegally entering the U.S., announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.),...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that 11 tribal communities will receive nearly $6 million to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies on tribal lands.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to review a draft of the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) put forward the discussion draft, which builds on the committee’s bipartisan, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 31-year-old McKinney, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner and operator of a New Orleans-based medical clinic and an accountant pleaded guilty today in federal court in New Orleans for their roles in a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington -Director of Ford's Theatre Society Paul R. Tetreault and Acting Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks Karen Cucurullo announced the commemorative programming planned forFord's 150: Remembering the Lincoln Assassination, events marking 150 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Revenue Inspector for the City of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve to 12 months’ probation as a result of his conviction of extortion under color of official right. ELIAS GARZA, 55, of Chicago...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Defendants Yasser Ashburn And Jamal Laurent Face Mandatory Life Imprisonment; Defendant Trevelle Merritt Faces Ten To Life.
