News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on October 5, 2015, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Belle-Clair Fairgrounds and Expo Center have entered into a Settlement Agreement. The Settlement Agreement was reached after the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 2: 0 p.m. Full Committee hearing . Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining Abortion Procedures and Medical Ethics at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider . 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses. *. Dr. Anthony Levatino, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Las Cruces, New Mexico. *. Ms...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Montgomery Joseph Isner, 47, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for bank fraud, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - The United States has entered into a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Autobuses Regiomontanos Inc. that ensures their buses are accessible to people with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Autobuses Regiomontanos is a bus transportation company located in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Benoit Placide, a/k/a “Snow," a/k/a “Mario," 26, of West Palm Beach, was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution in the amount of $742,955 for his role in a massive identity theft tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Tri-State Roofing and Sheet Metal Co., PO Box 1231, Charleston, West Virginia. The inspection site was the State Capitol Complex, Building 3, in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Teacher Was Accosted While Walking Home.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) spoke today with James Menendez on BBC World Service about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, which concluded today in Atlanta, Georgia. Rep. Levin, who attended the trade talks in Atlanta, has been outspoken on the need to get the trade agreement right for workers and the middle class.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 30, 2015, Heintina Roor-Potman, also known as Heleen Potman, 52, of the Netherlands, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison, ordered to pay restitution, and to forfeit $3,200,000.00...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold hearings this week to discuss a number of important issues facing America’s children and workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Postell, 52, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, on one count of wire fraud announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Zoie Susuico, the first place essay winner at the middle school level, was the student counterpart for the U.S. Attorney for Law Week 2015. Ms. Susuico is an 8th grade student at McCool Middle School, Department of Defense Educational Activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement this morning on President Obama’s announcement of two new national marine sanctuaries - the first in 15 years - in Maryland and Lake Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Guam Social Work Conference 2015, “Celebrating Diversity in Micronesia: Empowering and Developing Communities Together," held on March 18-20, 2015. U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who is handling the case, stated that on July 20, 2012, Medina police officers and members of the Orleans County Major Felony Crime Task Force searched Rissew’s then-residence at 305 Catherine Street in the Village of Medina. Officers found and seized in excess...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - The female former fugitive sought in a sophisticated tax fraud/identity theft scheme involving more than 800 victims has been convicted, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Thalia Diaz Camareno, 30, of Houston, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, while her husband - Antolin Julio Nazario, 34 - entered his plea April 27, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found the on-time mail delivery performance...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Darnell Roy Baker, a.k.a. "Forty," 26, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty today to charges returned against him by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. Specifically, Baker pled guilty to Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Rosetta San Nicolas was invited to speak at Wettengel Elementary School for Career Day on May 21, 2015. AUSA San Nicolas spoke to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 20 years for supplying crack cocaine to a drug trafficking operation in Junction City and Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
