News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment and a previously filed complaint, on Dec. 2, 2014, the U.S. Marshals Violent Felony Fugitive Task Force encountered the defendant while looking for a fugitive defendant. Officers searched Vincent’s 20th Street residence and discovered a.38 caliber revolver along with marijuana plants and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: As part of the House Judiciary Committee’s criminal justice reform initiative , House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), Congressman Mike Bishop (R-Mich.), and Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-Calif.) today unveiled bipartisan legislation to reform federal sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn tax preparer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday to filing fraudulent personal federal tax returns and attempting to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing on the economic and political future of Ukraine, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the U.S. to establish a long-term framework for supporting domestic reform and security in Ukraine. He questioned the Obama administration’s commitment to Ukraine after their hesitancy in providing greater defensive military assistance to help the country defend against Russian aggression.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -KRISTI BIAS, 42, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was sentenced this week by Chief United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 24 months in federal prison for embezzlement from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Chief Judge Miles-LaGrange ordered Bias to pay $251,018.35 in restitution to the tribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Seven individuals were arrested by federal, state and local authorities following a long-term investigation into the trafficking of heroin and oxycodone in the Rochester, New Hampshire area, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. Those arrested include.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Keno Phillips, 41, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and Steve Ivery, 30, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, in indictments returned in Cincinnati.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee, led by full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), demanded answers from Volkswagen regarding the company’s intentional efforts to circumvent...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee this morning began a hearing to discuss several bipartisan legislative proposals to address the growing drug abuse crisis - both with prescription and synthetic drugs - happening in communities across the country. Subcommittee members today heard testimony from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment yesterday against Vernal Moffet, age 29, of Queens, New York, Rushane Kennedy, age 23, of Rosedale, New York and Shavouy Paisley, age 24 of Queens, New York. The indictment charges the three men with possession of unauthorized access devices and criminal conspiracy to possess unauthorized access devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Defendants are Two of Twenty-Nine Charged in February 2014 with Trafficking Methamphetamine in San Juan County.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Bancroft Bags Inc. in West Monroe, Louisiana
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, October 8, 2015 - Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced an award of over $9 million in technology grants to help selected state agencies combat benefit abuse and trafficking by participants in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Projects in Alaska, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, and New Jersey were selected.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Terrence Harper, 41, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with two robberies and an attempted robbery at businesses in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on Dec. 13, 2013, Harper attempted to rob the Family...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who was arrested in 2014 as part of a joint law enforcement effort to capture child predators in southern Nevada, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and 25 years of supervised release for recruiting and enticing a 15-year-old girl to travel across state lines to work as a prostitute in Las Vegas, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee this morning began a hearing to discuss several bipartisan legislative proposals to address the growing drug abuse crisis - both with prescription and synthetic drugs - happening in communities across the country. Subcommittee members today heard testimony from...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its investigation of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Members today heard from Michael Horn, President and CEO of Volkswagen USA, and the Environmental Protection Agency as they work toward understanding the facts and circumstances around this cheating and how it went undetected for so long.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee this morning began a hearing to discuss several bipartisan legislative proposals to address the growing drug abuse crisis - both with prescription and synthetic drugs - happening in communities across the country. Subcommittee members today heard testimony from...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its investigation of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Members today heard from Michael Horn, President and CEO of Volkswagen USA, and the Environmental Protection Agency as they work toward understanding the facts and circumstances around this cheating and how it went undetected for so long.
