News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Baldwin Park man and former 18th Street gang member pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking offense and admitted that he was the triggerman in the previously unsolved 2006 murder of a person who had failed to pay “taxes" to a member of the Mexican Mafia.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded nine grants to help reduce energy costs for residents in remote rural areas where the cost of producing electricity is extremely high.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of ANTHONY DOANE EDGE, 36, and DEBORAH SUSAN EDGE, 37, each of whom pleaded guilty to manufacturing child pornography. The defendants were sentenced yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $600,000 in grant funds have been awarded to the Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona to continue providing immigration legal advice, case evaluation, and representation to victims residing in a five county service area in southern Arizona. The grant funds were awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women (“OVW"), which is a component of the Department of Justice (“DOJ").
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of an information and plea agreement charging David Donato (58, Brooksville) with bank fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. The information also notifies Donato that the United States intends to seek a money judgment in the amount of $143,878.80, which is traceable to the proceeds of the fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: The Treasury Department released its 2015-2016 Priority Guidance Plan (Plan) on July 31, 2015, identifying 277 projects that Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) consider priorities and intends to work on actively during the period July 2015 - June 2016. One of the projects...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Indian tribes in Kansas are being awarded more than $950,000 in public safety grants from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Clifford Sprague, 37, of Exeter, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being an accessory after the fact to a pharmacy robbery. An accessory after the fact is a person who, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Congress must start addressing the country’s regulatory burden in a common-sense way, Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said as he opened a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday on regulatory reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement during a markup of H.R. 692, the Default Prevention Act, and H.R. 3442, the Debt Management and Fiscal Responsibility Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $154,000 civil penalty against G&B Investment Management (G&B); N3344D Partners, LLC; Two Five Delta, LLC; and Gene Curtis, all located in Utah, for allegedly conducting commercial flight operations in violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Julena Campbell or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. The crunch of frost on the morning grass and the sound of bugling elk in the crisp evening air are all signs of fall, which also means it is time for the Yellowstone Fall Photo Festival. This event, now in its thirteenth year, allows photographers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Earl C. Speedy, age 39, of North Canton, with distributing a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Patricia Green Jackson, age 63, of Baltimore, for theft of government property and other charges arising from a scheme to steal social security benefits. The indictment was returned on Sept. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carlos Jesus Carrasco, 25, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Carlos Carrasco was sentenced to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a Call for Nominations for individuals who wish to serve a three-year term as a member of the Gateway National Recreation Area Fort Hancock 21st Century Federal Advisory Committee. The 30-day period for applications will end on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: As part of the Administration’s effort to increase energy efficiency and double U.S. energy productivity by 2030, the Energy Department is awarding $22 million in funding for five projects aimed at merging wide-bandgap (WBG) technology with advancements for large-scale motors to increase energy efficiency...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Charged Under Federal Law that Prohibits Participation in Violent Civil Disturbance, Ordinary Citizens Concerned About Their Neighborhood Helped to Catch Him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 14, 2015, Grace Carol Dashee, 44, of Peach Springs, Ariz., a member of the Hualapai Indian Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 41 months in prison. Dashee pleaded guilty on May 19, 2015 to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has reached an agreement with the Detroit Public School District under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"), requiring the district to provide sign language interpreters and other aids and services to parents and guardians who are deaf or hard of hearing, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
