News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― The leader of a drug trafficking organization who created and managed a heroin distribution operation run via a hotline telephone between 2008 and 2012 on the city’s west side was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison yesterday, federal law enforcement officials announced. The defendant, PIERRE HENDERSON, was responsible for supervising the distribution of over 30 kilograms of heroin, a federal judge determined before imposing the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Maribel Quintero, 39, has entered a guilty plea to violating the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Mississippi woman for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On May 28, a jury in the District of Wyoming convicted two Cheyenne, Wyoming, residents and a Sedona, Arizona, resident on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstructing a grand jury investigation. The announcement was made by Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline...
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Two Salvadoran MS-13 gang members wanted in El Salvador for unrelated aggravated homicides were removed Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Los Angeles, California.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Timothy J. Swanson, former Countryside Chief of Police and deputy with the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office, to prison. Swanson, 56, of Bourbonnais, Ill., was ordered to serve 27 months in federal prison, to be followed by a three-year...
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Someone once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We don’t need this wisdom to understand the 2016 appropriations process is going off the rails by repeating past mistakes.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: New York, NY -To celebrate National Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, the Statue of Liberty National Monument is presenting three extraordinary performing companies that represent the richness, power, and beauty of the cultures of China, India and Japan. The performances will take place at Ellis Island from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 31.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today that four men have been charged with distributing drugs that resulted in the overdose deaths of three people.
By EPA Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -The Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a markup beginning on Tuesday, June 2, at 5:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider legislation that aims to reform chemical management and modernize and reform a key federal agency. Members will convene for opening statements only on Tuesday and reconvene to consider the legislation Wednesday, June 3, at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former director and a former officer of First Community Bank and Trust in Will County were sentenced for fraudulently making false entries in the bank’s records which generated reports falsely representing that loans were current, when, in fact they were delinquent. MARTIN E. SCHMIDT, JR....
By State Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: OSHKOSH, WI - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made these remarks on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of the “Waters of the United States" rule.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) today called on the Department of Defense to provide answers to the reportedly recent accidental shipment of samples of live anthrax to several domestic and overseas laboratories, some of which are military installations...
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington -What do "cloud computing" and "terra firma" have in common? A suite of mobile phone applications ("apps") that, once all are released, will connect agricultural producers around the world and provide them with shared knowledge on ways to maximize the land's productivity while protecting its resources for future generations.
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession of Firearms During a Drug Trafficking Crime, Felon and Fugitive in Possession of Firearms, Possession of Methamphetamine with the Intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New Jersey men were convicted today for their roles in a drug-dealing business involving the sale of cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and methylone, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Sixteen defendants have been charged in a federal indictment, partially unsealed yesterday, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - A convicted sex offender who made videos of his rape of a 10-year-old boy pleaded guilty to production, possession and distribution of child pornography, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
