News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Robert C. Brown, aged 45, of Ellaville, Georgia, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2015 to serve 15 years (180 months) in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams in Albany, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, October 31st and November 1st, visitors are invited to witness the power of field artillery that defended the Union garrison during the Siege of 1862. Living History staff and volunteers of the Baltimore Light Artillery will present artillery demonstrations at 1, 2, and 3 p.m....
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Following a robust public process, the National Park Service today published regulations which restrict certain sport hunting practices in national preserves in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: A Coral Springs resident was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release for stealing government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago father who offered to hire a hit man to execute two potential witnesses in his son’s murder trial was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced there will be no charges against former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner, and the investigation will be closing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owners and operators of 10 Southern California businesses were charged today in federal court with illegally selling cosmetic contact lenses without prescriptions. Some of the products that were purchased in connection with this investigation were contaminated with dangerous pathogens that can cause eye injury, blindness and loss of the eye.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that SANTIAGO DE LA TORRE, 45, of Joliet, Illinois, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a 17-count indictment with Making False Statements Concerning Highway Projects and Aiding and Abetting; Aggravated Identity Theft and Aiding and...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: The chairmen of the U.S. Senate and House education committees today called on a federal agency with authority over consumer financial products to immediately halt its “unprecedented" investigation into a college accreditor.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host several events for Bat Week, October 25 through Oct. 31, to highlight the important role bats play in our ecosystem. Park rangers invite the public to visit bat information stations at Oconaluftee Visitor Center in North Carolina and Sugarlands Visitor Center in Tennessee from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Linden, New Jersey, man who was a leader in a boys’ youth organization and a religious education teacher today admitted sexually abusing children and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the former Finance Director of the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council (“AITC"), a non-profit organization which advocates in support of tribal governments throughout Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to five years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - DEA Special Agent Mark Simala was honored this week by United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the 63rd Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony for his bravery in saving the life of a Morgantown man last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Former Connecticut Resident Sentenced to Over Eight Years in Prison for Attempting to Send U.S. Military Technology to Iran.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on House passage of harmful reconciliation legislation that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act and undermine health care for women and families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Michele R. Saldua, age 60, was sentenced today for the crime of making a false declaration under penalty of perjury in relation to a bankruptcy case. Ms. Saldua was a resident of Spokane, Washington...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statements regarding the Department of Justice’s letter finding no evidence that the IRS targeted conservative groups for political reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) announced a $2,145,327 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) grant to organizations providing support for the victims, witnesses and first responders involved in the events surrounding the shootings at the Marysville-Pilchuck High School in October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Carlos Javier Miranda-Molina, 23, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 12 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting U.S. District Judge Dee V. Benson also ordered Miranda-Molina to pay restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Ynessa Brown and Thelonius Robertson with 10 counts of wire fraud, 1 count of conspiring to commit tax fraud, and 5 counts of aggravated identity theft. Brown is also charged with 2 counts of...
