News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was invited to speak at the University of Guam’s (UOG) School of Education Masters Class (MAED) on Oct. 26, 2015, at the University of Guam.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: The Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission will be holding its three hundredth meeting on Monday, November 16th at the Seashore Headquarters, Wellfleet, MA.There will be a reception in recognition of the event to be held at 3 PM in the lobby of the seashore headquarters.There will be refreshments followed by remarks by Rich Delaney, Advisory Commission Chair, and George Price, Park Superintendent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment on November 5, 2015, charging Kasimir Asim McClean, 37, of St. Thomas with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Michael Carvalho to five years and five months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to pay a money judgment in the amount of $2,223,083.44, representing the amount of...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA) announced he will retire at the end of the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- George W. Lewis, Jr., 50, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St.Thomas to one count of impersonating a federal officer and one count of blackmail, United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Katherine Albert-McNaughton, 37, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for forging securities and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property. She was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $470,352.39.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA) announced he will retire at the end of the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON TORRANCE, 44, of East Haddam, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in a fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester to charges of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Jonathan Belcher, 37, of Mt. Gay, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to distributing oxycodone. Belcher admitted to selling oxycodone to a confidential informant at his residence on Aug. 25, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Statement: UAS Registration Task Force Day Two
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Nov. 6, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo. to meet with U.S. Air Force senior leadership and speak with cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. While at the Academy, Secretary Johnson ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2015 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement regarding the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, November 5, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced two new inductees, Cesar Chavez and Dr. Mary-Dell Chilton, into the U.S. Department of Agriculture Hall of Heroes. Established in September 2000, the Hall of Heroes recognizes those who have had a lasting impact on agriculture and America's rural communities. The honorees will be recognized permanently by plaques in the entry hall of USDA's Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: The United States filed a complaint seeking to permanently bar an Aberdeen, Maryland, woman and the tax preparation business she operates from preparing federal tax returns and promoting a frivolous tax avoidance scheme, the Justice Department announced today. The complaint against Charese Johnson, doing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Settlement Addresses the Bank’s Errors Affecting Nearly 68,000 Accounts of Homeowners in Bankruptcy The Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee Program has entered into a national settlement agreement with Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (Wells Fargo) requiring Wells Fargo to pay $81.6 million in remediation for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: A four-count indictment was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio charging four men with conspiring to travel to Yemen to provide thousands of dollars to Anwar Al-Awlaki in an effort to support violent jihad against U.S. military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: A Glenn Dale, Maryland, man and former U.S. Postal Service contracting officer was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for receiving bribes in connection with the awarding of mail delivery contracts. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein of the District of Maryland and Special Agent in Charge Paul L. Bowman of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: A federal jury convicted two former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) derivative traders – including the bank’s former Global Head of Liquidity & Finance in London – today for manipulating the London InterBank Offered Rates (LIBOR) for the U.S. Dollar (USD) and the Yen, ...
