News from October 2015
By EPA Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow’s Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing: “E-Manifest: An Update on Implementation," has been postponed to a date and time to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Yesterday, a Federal grand jury returned an indictment against Jorge L. Pagán Kortright and his companies AWD Group Inc. doing business as El Torito USA, Inc., Allied Worldwide Distributors Inc., and All Wheel Drive Corp., for introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce...
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Spring Hill residents Glenn and Kathryn Jasen guilty of wire fraud. They each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The sentencing hearings are scheduled for Jan. 11, 2016. They were indicted on July 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Three former East Cleveland police officers were charged in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy in which they kept thousands of dollars from alleged drug dealers, much of which was seized through illegal searches and fabricated reports, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow’s Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing: “E-Manifest: An Update on Implementation," has been postponed to a date and time to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Trenton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to produce child pornography after secretly filming several victims in the shower. Edward...
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Nathan Burnside, 31, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to distributing 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who handled the case, stated that from April 2008 to December 2012, the defendant received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits on behalf of a family member. During that time, Nybeck falsified information that was submitted to the Social Security Administration that allowed her to continue to receive the SSI benefits. In total, the defendant fraudulently received $36,094 in benefits that she was not entitled to.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - Carlos Moncayo, un trabajador de Queens de 22 años, intentaba ganarse la vida como obrero construyendo una tienda de Restoration Hardware en 19 Ninth Ave. en Manhattan el 6 de abril de 2015. Sin embargo, su vida terminó ese día cuando la zanja de 14 pies de profundidad en la que trabajaba se colapsó y lo enterró debajo de toneladas de tierra y escombros.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Randolph J. Seiler has received the official nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 41st United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota. Prior to this White House nomination, Seiler has served as the Acting U.S. Attorney since March 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Charles Cornelius Smith (35, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to failing to appear in federal court for his sentencing hearing. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison that must run consecutively to the sentence that will be imposed in a second federal case involving the passing of counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. No sentencing date has been set for either case.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Larry T. Hyman, age 59, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, was convicted, following a 3-day jury trial, of conspiracy to embezzle government monies, on October 7, 2015, in the United States District Court in Albany. Senior United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Denise Wasicki, 40, of Yuba City, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to two years and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for two counts of mail fraud in a scheme to defraud a payroll staffing company out of more than $500,000, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Parker Sikand, age 23, of Ellington, Connecticut, was indicted last month on three felony charges of distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine legislative proposals to mitigate the impacts of the drought that has crippled California and many communities throughout the West.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jesus Demas Valencia, 48, of Martinsburg, was convicted of cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, OREGON - After spending days fighting fires, clearing brush and performing arduous physical tasks, U.S. Forest Service employees should return to a safe home base after work. Yet repeated inspections of national forests throughout Oregon during the last 10 years have found the opposite, with the Forest Service cited by federal inspectors for widespread safety violations nine out of every 10 visits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The results of the October 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
