News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: A Centralia resident pleaded guilty on April 29, 2015, in United States District Court for burglarizing the Buchheit of Centralia farm and home supply store and stealing thirty nine guns, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dakota R. Moss, 19, faces a maximum of up to 40 years in prison for his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The government has moved to dismiss the federal indictment against Keith Matthew Emerald, 33, of Columbia, California, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The indictment alleged that Emerald had caused the Rim Fire, which burned approximately 250,000 acres of land, and that he had made a false statement to federal investigators regarding the origin of that fire.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its hearing series examining the growing problem of prescription drug and opioid abuse. Members discussed the issue with federal officials to learn what they are doing to combat the epidemic and explore how federal policies can better support efforts to develop new and promising treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Tonia Smith, 42, of Perry, Maine, was sentenced to four months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for fraudulently acquiring Hydrocodone and food stamp fraud. She was also ordered to pay $3,933.88 in restitution. She pled guilty to the charges on Nov. 18, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Visitors and local residents are invited to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD)at Grand Teton National Park by joining a bird-watching caravan on Saturday, May 9th. Park Ranger Andrew Langford will visit several park areas that provide the best opportunities to locate, identify, and record birds as part of the annual North American bird count and annual IMBD observance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Cesar Augusto Perez, a/k/a “Erick Alberto Perez," 41, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged on April 30th by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about March 26, 2015, Perez, an alien, and native and citizen of Guatemala, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about July 9, 1999 and April 6, 2006.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Cape Lookout Lighthouse has received a fresh new coat of paint. The exterior paint was at the end of its life cycle due to the harsh weather environment and followed by three recent hurricanes, Irene, Sandy and Arthur, which furthered caused the paint to fail exposing the brick to moisture and deterioration. After Hurricane Sandy, the park submitted and received the funds to repaint the lighthouse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, is one of six new members appointed to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch this week. Besides Dettelbach, the following appointments became effective April 29, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP), a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, France was sentenced today for conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Misused Government Property to Punish Fort Lee Mayor for Not Endorsing Gov. Christie’s Re-election.
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: In March, Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced bipartisan legislation H.R. 1321, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which would prohibit the sale or distribution of personal care products that contain synthetic plastic microbeads. The bipartisan bill would ban the sale or distribution of cosmetics products containing plastic microbeads effective Jan. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kimberly Haslacker, 39, of Romney, West Virginia, was convicted of bank fraud in federal court today after she admitted to using her position as a bank loan officer to obtain fraudulent loans, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 241 months in prison for his role in a criminal street gang that used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Gang Member Sentenced to Life for South San Francisco Murders, Attempted Murder of Federal Agents and Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Victor Flores, a member of the 500 Block/C Street Gang of South San Francisco, was sentenced to life in prison announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Tatum King, and FBI Special Agent in Charge, David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced seven individuals for their roles in a conspiracy to commit stolen identity refund fraud in the Tampa Bay area. Mikeil Royal was sentenced to five years and five months, Brian Gilchrist was sentenced to three years and one...
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) introduced the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. The Raise the Wage Act would also index the federal minimum wage to the median wage, and gradually eliminate the subminimum tipped wage. The legislation would raise wages for nearly 38 million American workers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Sharon Harrison, age 48, of Rosedale, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $1.3 million from four non-profit organizations for which she worked and which received federal funding.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: Alan Mizen, former township financial officer embezzled over $343,000 in public money.
