News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Over $1.3 Million in U.S. Currency and 153.1 Pounds of Drugs Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, today announced multiple guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute heroin from within B&D Detailing, an auto detailing shop adjacent to the now-shuttered Thunderguards Clubhouse on Northeast Boulevard in Wilmington.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal criminal complaint charging ANTON MARTYNENKO, 32, with production, advertising, receipt and possession of child pornography. MARTYNENKO was arrested on Nov. 20, 2015, and made an initial appearance yesterday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn., before Magistrate Judge Janie S. Mayeron.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jean Valbrun, 27, of Mattapan, Massachusetts, was found guilty by a jury today in U.S. District Court of possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as, crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH T. MORRIS, 52, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating two investment schemes that defrauded individuals out of more than $200,000.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, NY -Dredging is underway at Fire Island National Seashore to improve public access to marina and docking facilities affected by Hurricane Sandy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a cable TV hunting show host and four other individuals charged in the investigation have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Anchorage United States District Court for their participation in a multi-year poaching operation on the Noatak National Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - -A federal grand jury indicted thirteen defendants for conducting a state-wide conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and the distribution of controlled substances, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Led Plan to Carry Out Bombing of Crowded Shopping Center in Manchester, England During Easter Holiday as Part of Global Terrorism Plot by al-Qaeda.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced Boggs Paving, Inc. (Boggs Paving), its president and part-owner, Carl Andrew “Drew" Boggs, III, and four others on charges stemming from the illegal use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain government-funded construction contracts, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Michael Angelo Sapp, 40, of Nampa, Idaho, and formerly of Florida, was found guilty last Friday following a three-day jury trial in federal court on charges that he possessed over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 28, 2015, the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman’s Office hosted a public teleconference regarding U.S. Department of State (DOS) Consular Returns to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Representatives from the USCIS Service Center Operations and DOS’ National ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Yesterday, Sunday, I was in New York City to observe first-hand the NYPD's active shooter exercise in the City’s subway system. That exercise, planned weeks ago, was partially funded by the Department of Homeland Security, and it highlights the many different ways our Department supports state and local law enforcement counterterrorism activities.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and other senior officials spoke by phone today with several hundred Jewish community stakeholders as part of a call organized by the Jewish Federations of North America’s ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today awarded $2 million in grants to support research on nutrition education and obesity prevention for disadvantaged children and families at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Sunny Grove Landscaping & Nursery Inc. (Sunny Grove), a landscaping company in Ft. Myers, Florida. The settlement resolves the department’s investigation of Sunny Grove for discrimination against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Two Utah companies are running a nationwide abusive scheme that purports to use false tax deductions and claims of the solar energy credit to reduce their customers’ federal income tax liability, according to a complaint filed today by the Justice Department. The United States’ complaint seeks to stop ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: A Tampa, Florida, woman pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and issuing false bomb threats, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Conspired With Others to File False Tax Returns Using Stolen Names and Social Security Numbers A Phenix City, Alabama woman was sentenced today to serve more than seven years in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced today.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, together with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, co-chaired the 26th U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) in Guangzhou, China, on November 21-23, 2015. They were joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ...
