News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jaime Juan Alvarado, 37, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Makwan Jaff, 35, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to interstate stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam Hill, 34, of Sanford, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a final rule, effective Oct. 1, 2015, that implements the required annual adjustment to the fee schedule for mineral cost recovery projects. Specifically, this final rule updates the fees charged to recover costs incurred in processing certain documents...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) offered the following response after Pope Francis’s address to a joint session of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Ten Puerto Rico Police Officers Indicted for Allegedly Running Criminal Organization Out of Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced the leader of an organized retail crime ring that sold and distributed over $12 million in stolen over-the-counter (“OTC") drugs and health-and-beauty (HBA) products, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty to stealing tax refunds totaling $1,428,027.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: CANTON, Ohio - A leading supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations, including several that led a teenaged worker to suffer the amputation of his lower leg.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man pleaded guilty today to drug distribution and firearms violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) sent a letter yesterday to President Obama asking him to clarify whether he intends to waive tax code provisions directed at illicit Iranian behavior, including its support for terrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tiffany Saunders Carraway, age 34, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property arising from a scheme to falsify her income and living arrangements to illegally obtain food stamp and Medicaid benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - - Carlos Avalos-Cervantes, 30, and Martin Diaz-Lara, 26, both Mexican nationals currently living in Walla Walla, Washington, were arrested in the remote mountain area early in the morning on Sept. 23, 2015, on charges of conspiracy and manufacturing with intent to distribute marijuana, ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Phoenix Produce Company of Chicago, Ill., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A man who had pledged assets as collateral for a United States Department of Agriculture farm operating loan and then sold those assets without notifying the Department he was doing so, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Neal LaPointe, age 31, of Sacramento, California, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Sept. 28, 2015, and pled guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Sexual Exploitation of a Child, and Distribution of Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors. He also pled guilty to a separate Indictment charging him with Failure to Appear.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Hazleton man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Wilkes-Barre before Senior United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo, to a federal heroin trafficking charge and was then sentenced to prison.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: PINE RIDGE, S.D., Sept. 29, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded nearly $20 million through 385 grants to help support the start-up or expansion of rural small businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing to consider the various financial and economic challenges in Puerto Rico.
