News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to a Spouse was sentenced on Nov. 2, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAMES CAVE, 44, of Winsted, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to federal firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - George Kalivretenos, 59, of Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for a wire fraud and money laundering scheme in which he defrauded borrowers of approximately $5.6 million. Kalivretenos was also ordered to pay $4.18 million in restitution as part of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ricky Tolson, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Prosecution Brought under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Yonkers Contractor Admits to Violating Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Regulations and Pays $2.6 Million.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment evaluating the authorization of the continued discharge and conveyance of stormwater from Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon in facilities that are part of Reclamation’s Newlands Project.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after President Obama rejected the cross-border permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project after a more than 2,600-day delay:
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: DOUGLAS, Ariz. - It happened so fast. The Douglas-based special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was driving to lunch with his fiancée last May. Seconds later, Jeremiah Gussoni was struggling to free a man trapped in the driver’s seat of a flaming vehicle that had flipped over after being struck by a tractor trailer rig.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: (STRATFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Mark Leigh-James, also known as “Rich," 23, of Stratford, has been indicted on narcotics trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- Grand Canyon National Park invites the public to celebrate Native American Heritage Days on Monday, November 9th, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: President Obama has signed the Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Enforcement Act, marking another critical step in the Administration’s efforts to combat IUU fishing and seafood fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement commemorating the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Higher Education Act, which was signed into law on November 8, 1965.
By State Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 39-year-old Carl Wade Bailes to 135 years in federal prison for production, receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DONALD GAINES, also known as “Stretch" and “Shorty," 35, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a drug robbery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Breanna Polk, 32, of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to six months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of honest services wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The former owner of a local auto business was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison for a scheme that defrauded two insurance companies and netted her $200,000. Lisa Ephrem, 40, of Happy Valley, pleaded guilty in February to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - An Ohio man was convicted yesterday for his role in a sex trafficking conspiracy involving minor girls who were transported to Chicago from Iowa to engage in prostitution.
