News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brian Alexander Hall, 27, of Windsor, Maryland, was convicted of heroin trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Darrell L. Duncan, age 34, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced Wednesday, November 4, 2015, in federal court by Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. after his guilty plea of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Following a three day federal trial, a Montana jury found William Krisstofer Wolf, 53, of Bozeman, guilty on two counts: Illegal Possession of a Machine Gun and Possession of a Firearm not Registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. Sentencing is set for March 3, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Moab Field Office is seeking public comment on the proposed permanent restriction of Corona Arch and Gemini Bridges to rope use, including ziplining, highlining, slacklining, climbing, rappelling and rope swinging.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that on Nov. 13, 2013, law enforcement officers searched the defendant’s residence on Chippewa St. in Buffalo. Officers recovered a laptop computer being used by Marlnee. A subsequent forensic examination determined that the computer contained 952 images of child pornography. Some of the images depicted children under the age of 12 years old. Some of the images also contained depictions of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Chaka Fattah Jr. Convicted of Fraud and Tax Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (the park) is proposing to construct a sustainable, multi-use trail system for pedestrian, bicycle, and horse use on the north side of the park in Moore and Potter Counties, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA today announced results from the 2015 National Drug Threat (NDTA), which finds that drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of motor vehicle deaths and firearms. In 2013, over 46,000 people in the United States died from drug overdose and more than half of those were caused by prescription painkillers and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part of the ongoing effort by U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute mortgage fraud, three defendants were sentenced today for their roles in separate mortgage fraud schemes, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the guilty plea of ROHIT BANSAL, who was formerly employed as an associate at...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Tulalip and Suquamish Tribes in Western District of Washington to Receive Access to Federal Criminal Databases and Technical Assistance from Department of Justice.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Darrell Issa (R-CA) hosted a bipartisan briefing on fair chance hiring policies, including the Fair Chance Act, legislation they introduced to require the federal government and its contractors to wait to ask about the criminal histories of job applicants until they receive conditional offers of employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Linda Weston, 55, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to life plus 80 years in prison. Weston pleaded guilty on Sept. 15, 2015 to all charges in a racketeering and hate crimes case that involved holding disabled adults captive in locked closets, basements, and attics in Philadelphia’s...
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: Michael Oppenheim Made False and Misleading Representations To His Clients and Converted To His Own Use $22 Million Of His Clients’ Funds.
By State Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed four bipartisan measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gregory Scott Baker, 48, of Newcastle, pleaded guilty today to conspiring commit mail and wire fraud, conspiring to launder monetary instruments, and filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Bandar Alsaidi, 28, and his brother, Talal Alsaidi, 31, both of Buffalo, who were convicted of unauthorized use of food stamp benefits, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Bandar Alsaidi was sentenced to 12 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Tweeted False Information About Publicly Traded Companies, Causing Over a Million Dollars of Losses.
By State Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Dear President Abbas: We are writing to express our deep concern over the recent wave of Palestinian violence in Israel and the West Bank. Unless immediate action is taken to end incitement and bring the situation under control, this escalating violence - including stabbings, shootings and other terrorist...
