News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that IRA THOMAS, 56, of New Orleans and former member of the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB"), pled guilty today to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Maria Steele Vera, 60, of Dallas, Texas to 33 months in prison and to one year of supervised release for selling stolen merchandise on the Internet, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In April 2014, Vera pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with her scheme. Judge Conrad also ordered Vera to pay more than $70,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JEREMIAH JACKSON, a/k/a “Rocky," age 24, of New Orleans, pled guilty today in the racketeering conspiracy case involving the Frenchmen/Derbingy gang, or “FnD.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Terrance Wilson, 26, of Detroit, Michigan was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in February of 2015 to interstate travel in aid of drug trafficking. Wilson admitted that he transported heroin from...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Plea Resolves Cases Filed in Texas and the District of Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: The drought is effecting lands, wildlife and people across the state of California. At Golden Gate National Recreation Area we are striving to model the best practices in sustainability and conservation while keeping people safe and protecting resources. In response to California’s severe drought, the...
By State Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing today on provocative Chinese territorial expansion in disputed islands of the East and South China Seas, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns about the U.S. losing credibility in the Asia-Pacific by the Obama administration providing no effective deterrent to China’s actions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: On May 12, 2015, the House of Representatives approved the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015 (S. 665 ) by voice vote and the bill is now headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law. Named after two New York Police Department (NYPD) officers who were killed in the line ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 11, 2015, Shane M. Sells (age: 38) of New London, Wisconsin, was sentenced by Chief District Judge William C. Griesbach to 180 months imprisonment for production of child pornography in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 2251(a). Upon his release Sells will be on federal supervised release for the remainder of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: DENVER - David Nunez-Hernandez, age 21, of Denver, Colorado, has been ordered held without bond following his arrest on the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Luke Franey announced. Nunez-Hernandez was first arrested...
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: SHARPSBURG, Md. - Antietam National Battlefield will begin charging increased entrance and campground fees beginning June 1, 2015. Antietam retains one-hundred percent of the fees collected at the battlefield and invests them in park projects that improve facilities and experiences for its visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge John Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte, North Carolina, Division announced today that Donald Ray Morgan of Rowan County, North...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -Two employees of SCM Data Inc. and MMC Systems Inc. were arrested today for their alleged roles in a scheme that fraudulently used the H1-B visa program to reduce skilled labor costs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Healthcare technology company Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (“SMS") has agreed to pay $5.9 million to resolve an investigation into the overcharging of the federal government for purchases of medical imaging equipment. The civil resolution was announced today by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Six Bureau of Land Management (BLM) District offices will be offering opportunities for the public to learn about the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for western Oregon management plan revisions. There will be a media call at 2:30 p.m. PDT (5:30 p.m. EDT) on...
By State Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on May 12, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: In El Paso today, 35-year-old Isaac Hernandez, (aka “ICE"), the leader of an El Paso-based cocaine trafficking organization, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division; and, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup of [H.R. 2252], authored by Congressman Will Hurd (TX-23). The legislation passed out of the Committee with bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) welcomed an agreement that paves the way for further debate on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). Under the agreement, the Senate will vote tomorrow on the Finance-passed customs bill and the trade preferences bill, paving the way for another cloture vote on the motion to proceed to a vehicle to move TPA.
