News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Brooke Ashley Darby, 29, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for her role in a credit card fraud scheme that targeted local retailers in June 2015, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Sandy Snell-Dobert or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. October proved to be another record-breaking month for Yellowstone, breaking the 4 million mark in visits for 2015. Yellowstone hosted 4,066,191 recreational visits in the first ten months of 2015, an increase of 16.72% over last year and 11.70%...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $51,590. Quote: "By not providing the proper scaffolding and fall protection, Alberto El Romero is taking unnecessary chances with workers' lives," said Nicholas DeJesse, director of OSHA's Philadelphia Area Office. "Falls are the leading cause of fatalities on construction sites, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment on November 5, 2015, charging Kevin Henley, 21, of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with Bulk Cash Smuggling, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, November 15 at the Bear Valley Visitor Center, from 11 am to 1 pm, Point Reyes National Seashore will host an electronic waste (e-waste) recycling collection, joining thousands of local organizers holding recycling events across the country to celebrate America Recycles Day, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: On November 5, 2015, Michael F. Halliday,, a/k/a "Micky," 33, of Elkville, pled guilty to one-count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Three Hostages Were Held in Colombia for More Than Five Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jason Gooden, 29, of Philadelphia, MS, pled guilty on November 9, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to one count of Assaulting a Choctaw Tribal Police Officer, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Luzerne County man has been charged with stealing mail from multiple United States Post Offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Department of Justice has returned $1,126,951.45 in forfeited assets to the government of the Republic of Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael David Wilson, 32, of Delano, was sentenced late Monday afternoon by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to six and a half years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird today announced the final environmental review of an innovative landscape-scale blueprint to support renewable energy development and conservation on 10 million acres of federal public lands, managed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Skruck, 59, of Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role in distributing bath salts and synthetic drugs through local retail stores, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: The Scheme Resulted in $10M in Bad Loans and $5M in Losses to Lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Redirected Funds Intended to Be Applied to Defaulted Commercial Mortgage Loans Into Bank Accounts He Controlled.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Xzavion Dayshaun Ragsdale, a/k/a “Yung Billy," 19, pleaded guilty this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton E. Averitte to one count of attempted sex trafficking of a child, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, California - Martin Wayne Flanders, de 51 años de edad, y antiguo residente de Roseville, fue sentenciado hoy por el Juez del Distrito de los Estados Unidos Troy L. Nunley a seis años y cinco meses de prisión por una trama que se dirigía a propietarios de viviendas que se encontraban en dificultades económicas, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: PRESS CONFERENCE. EVANSVILLE - United States Attorney Josh Minkler will hold a press conference today, at 3:00 pm CST, in the Evansville United States Federal Courthouse, Third Floor, U.S. District Court Law Library. Minkler will be joined by officials from the United States Secret Service, United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after The Washington Post reported that President Obama will nominate Acting Director Beth Cobert as Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM):
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Corey Duane Bowles, 43, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 240 months (20 years) in federal prison, the statutory maximum penalty, for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
