News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Dushko Venelinov Vulchev, 38, of Houlton, Maine, and originally from Bulgaria, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to threatening a foreign official and was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to time-served. The defendant was arrested on March 29, 2015 and has been detained since that date.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management Front Range District announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on the Front Range Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Branford Police Chief Kevin Halloran today announced that a federal jury in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA -Kandel Markie Whiting, 35, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 90 months in prison today for receipt and distribution of child pornography. Following his incarceration, he will serve 10 years on supervised release, and he must also register as a sex offender. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Chuvalo Truesdell (404) 893-7124.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Grand Canyon National Park, the National Park Service Office of Public Health, Coconino County Public Health Services District, and other park partners are investigating a positive case of tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) contracted by a recent visitor to the North Rim. Prior to...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on Secretary Arne Duncan’s decision to leave his post at the U.S. Department of Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Kane County a $194,006 grant to implement or enhance local drug court programs. The funding is a part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today a statement following news that Central States Pension Fund, which has 400,000 participants, has filed an application for the suspension of benefits (i.e. benefit cuts) with the Treasury Department under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jon W. McClellan, 55, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison and five years of supervised release for charges of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Tiffany Thomas, 29, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today for health care billing fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today that six Cuban nationals who reside in Florida were indicted today for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and two counts of access device fraud today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize winning PolitiFact News Service awarded Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a rating of “Pants on Fire " for springing a highly misleading chart on Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards during her testimony at Tuesday’s public hearing. The chart falsely suggested that Planned Parenthood performs more abortions than cancer screenings and prevention services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that DuWayne LeDoux, 55, of Kodiak, Alaska, pleaded guilty yesterday, Oct. 1, 2015, in U.S. District Court, Sacramento, California, to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to structure cash deposits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: ST. LOUIS - - James Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced that on its 10th National Drug Take-Bake Day, DEA and its local partners collected 22,321 pounds of unused prescription drugs in the St. Louis metropolitan and southern Illinois area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant, operator of O.I.D. Process, also ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut today announced that CHRISTOPHER BRECCIANO, 37, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 14 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to defraud financial institutions through an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of properties in Fairfield County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The leader of an international money laundering organization, Gurkaran Singh Isshpunani, made his initial appearance in the Central District of California today. Isshpunani, the highest level defendant listed in a 22-person federal indictment filed in November 2014, is allegedly the leader...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Thousands of community members across South and Southeast Texas came together to dispose of more than 32, 600 pounds of unused, expired, or unwanted drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) on Saturday, September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Alphonso Parker (36, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of multiple firearms. He pleaded guilty on May 28, 2015.
