News from November 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 11, 2015
News Release: On November 9, The Washington Post published “DHS Bid to Go Digital Falls Flat,” a story on the digitization program launched by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2006. The story fails to recognize the progress DHS and USCIS have made in recent years to correct course on this important initiative. Thanks to efforts to modernize our immigration services, we have provided a fresh start to the program. It is now within cost and on schedule.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2015
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael Anglin (age 25) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Charles N. Clevert to 230 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in the December 9, 2013, robbery of the Hampton Service Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The robbery was committed by three masked men, two of whom were armed with a 9mm handgun and an assault rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Antoine Johnson, 26, of Jackson, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to possession of a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former sales manager for the company that makes Glock firearms was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to take bribes and kickbacks, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: KINGSTON, Jamaica - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Ministry of National Security of Jamaica signed a memorandum of cooperation Tuesday in Kingston to enhance their ability to share records containing immigration and criminal histories of Jamaican nationals being repatriated from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Hollister, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the armed robbery of Central Bank in Branson, Mo.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON— Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldaña, and DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Alan Bersin met with Korean Minister of Justice Kim Hyun-Woong and Deputy Minister of Justice Jin Kyung-Joon to discuss a range ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Agency Funding Fix Still Needed to Complete Necessary Work to Make Forests More Resilient to Fire WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2015 -- The U.S. Forest Service has increased the pace and scale of forest restoration by nine percent since 2011, according to a report released today. The significant progress comes ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: A federal jury in Mobile, Alabama, has convicted Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab AS (DSD Shipping) and three employees with obstructing justice, violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), witness tampering and conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: The owners, the director of nursing and patient recruiters of a home-health agency based in Houston were arrested early this morning for their alleged roles in conspiracies to defraud Medicare, to pay illegal healthcare kickbacks and to commit money laundering. The defendants were charged in an indictment unsealed earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Transaction Would Entrench United’s Dominant Position at Newark, New Jersey, Airport – Eliminating Competition and Resulting in Higher Fares and Fewer Choices for Consumers The Department of Justice today filed a civil antitrust lawsuit seeking to block a proposed transaction between United Continental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney for the death of Dontre Hamilton on Apr. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Defendants Stole Identities of Prisoners and Deceased Individuals Two Miami residents pleaded guilty for their role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Three Hostages Were Held in Colombia for More Than Five Years Diego Alfonso Navarrete Beltran, 43, a member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Colombianas (FARC) terrorist organization, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to 27 years in prison on hostage-taking charges stemming from the 2003 kidnappings of three U.S. citizens in Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Breaches Included the Largest Theft of Customer Data from a U.S. Financial Institution in History Defendants Hacked in Furtherance of Securities Market Manipulation Schemes, and Vast Gambling and Payment Processing Schemes Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: A District of Columbia resident pleaded guilty today to a charge stemming from his involvement in a far-reaching stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he and others working with him obtained more than $315,000 through the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking refunds, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: A Hampton Bays, New York man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, for securities fraud and filing a false tax return. Wilfred T. Azar, III, 54, formerly of Queenstown, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr, who also entered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Caused 13 False Tax Returns to be Filed in Just Four Months Claiming $7,470,065 in Refunds A federal jury convicted Charles W. Parker Jr., 49, of College Park, Maryland, today of one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and six counts of filing false income tax returns.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: The Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto (PDF), Canada and Bank of Nova Scotia New York Agency, New York, New York Written Agreement dated November 5, 2015 The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the release ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Design Plastering Inc., Design Plastering West LLC cited for multiple violations DALLAS – A fall from a third-story balcony killed 44-year-old Jorge Carrion Torres as he worked on the exterior of an apartment complex on May 14, 2015. Torres, who had been on the job for one month, was applying stucco ...
