News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Scheme Tricked Lenders into Funding the Down Payments on Houses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Springdale, UT- Zion National Park began construction of a waterline replacement project on Oct. 19, 2015. The waterline runs along the west side of State Route 9 from Zion National Park’s South Entrance Monument north to a connection near the park’s Emergency Operations Center. The project will be under construction during the weekdays and anticipated to be completed by mid-December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Paso Robles man has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for misappropriating millions of dollars that victims invested in Central Coast real estate projects and for helping a real estate developer defraud a bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced today Alberto Gasca, 31, of Los Angeles, California, to serve 128 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Gasca pleaded guilty in February 2015 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Joshua Brandon Hinkle, 30, of Chuckey, Tenn., was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 110 months in federal prison for his role in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia and western North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSE ALEJANDRO, 30, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Michael Henson will be on hand for a book signing and reading of his writings at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House. Originally from Sidney, Ohio, Michael Henson is author of four books of fiction and four collections of poetry. His most recent work,The Way the World Is: the Maggie Boylan Stories, is winner...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The United States seized approximately 5,000 cases of frozen, processed crab products manufactured by Rome Packing Company, Inc. (Rome), because the crab meat is suspected to be contaminated with harmful bacteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Three individuals who participated in a conspiracy in August 2014 to trafficking two Boston area females, one of them a minor, into Rhode Island for the purpose of offering them for commercial sexual activity have been sentenced in federal court in Providence.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, 10 Democratic Members of the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt pressing the agency to finalize codes for advance care planning in the upcoming final 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Judicial Redress Act of 2015 (H.R. 1428 ) by a bipartisan vote of #-#. Introduced by Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - Edward Dorsey Sr., 43, of St. Anne, Ill., was sentenced late last week to 327 months (27 years, three months) in federal prison for repeated trafficking of crack cocaine. On Friday, Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Colin Bruce added 51 months to Dorsey’s previous sentence of 276 months (23 years.) The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals had remanded Dorsey’s case to the district court for resentencing after Dorsey challenged conditions of his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lake Charles man and a Texas man were sentenced Monday to 66 months in prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that stretched from Lake Charles to Houston.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made these remarks today after Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would make families and communities safer by redirecting federal funding away from sanctuary states and cities that fail to detain illegal aliens, to states and localities that follow the law.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Rep. Ed Royce (CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Eliot L. Engel (NY), the Committee’s ranking member; Reps. Matt Salmon (AZ) and Brad Sherman (CA), the chair and ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Rep. Steve Chabot...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Julius C. Appling, Taj J. Tillison, Tal V. Tillison, Aryonne Johnson, and Andrew Smith, a/k/a Dru, have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with their scheme to deposit fraudulent checks at Wells Fargo and SunTrust banks in the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ricky B. Reaves, 53, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jose Alejandro, 30, of Waterbury, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Jensen, UT & Dinosaur, CO - September visitation numbers for Dinosaur National Monument showed a 30.4% increase for the month over the 2014 September figures. Except for a slight dip in May, all other months in 2015 had increases in visitation. As of Sept. 30, recreational visits for the year tallied a total of 265,762 - a 17.0% increase over the same time period in 2014.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
