News from September 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The Homeland Security Committee’s bipartisan Foreign Fighter Task Force released its final report at a press conference today. The Task Force conducted an extensive, six month review to assess the severity of the threat from individuals who leave home to join jihadist groups overseas and to identify potential security gaps.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A woman with multiple felony convictions has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentencing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced that a Kenyan child pornography producer was sentenced late yesterday to life in prison for participating in the Dreamboard child sexual exploitation website.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held an oversight hearing on the designations of Marine National Monuments, which are unilateral executive actions that usurp established regional fisheries management plans and impose significant economic and environmental impacts regionally and nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Thomas Hegarty, 21, of Rochester, New Hampshire, appeared in United States District Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston Police detective pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to obstruct a FBI investigation related to the Academy Homes Street Gang (AHSG), a violent narcotics trafficking gang that operated out of the Academy Homes housing development in Roxbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Owner of Orlando Health Care Clinic Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Engaging in Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jean Sanborn of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to thirty (30) months imprisonment and three years supervised release in United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Sept. 28, 2015. Sanborn had pled guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody tax preparer was sentenced yesterday to federal prison for defrauding small-business clients out of nearly $900,000 that his clients had given him to pay their federal payroll taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: On Sept. 24, 2015, David T. Walls, Jr., a/k/a "Gun," 36, of Chicago, IL, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: This case involves a student whose service dog performs numerous tasks directly related to the student’s disabilities including alerting to oncoming seizures, preventing her from wandering or running away, and providing mobility support so she can walk independently. Due to her disabilities, the student...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Water utility staff at Grand Canyon National Park will begin repairs to a break in the Transcanyon Pipeline. The break is located north of Phantom Ranch on the North Kaibab Trail in an area known as "The Box.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that a federal grand jury has indicted two men for their involvement in a scheme to illegally purchase and sell firearms and smuggle them to Mexico. Those men are Erik Flores Eloretgui, 33 years old, of Beaverton, Oregon and Robert Allen Cummins, 56...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jeffrey R. Shope, 44, of Blacklick, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of insurance fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: TIJUANA, Mexico - Eleven alleged human smugglers were arrested Tuesday by Mexican law enforcement officers in Tijuana following a tip from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Assistant Attaché Office in Tijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A man who distributed crack cocaine for nearly a decade was sentenced today to more than twenty years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A man who was selling counterfeit merchandise at a “Clearance Sale" located on 16th Ave. S.W. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Sarith Chim, 34, of Long Beach, was sentenced today to six years and four months in prison by U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone pills.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor, urging her colleagues to pass a one year extension of the Perkins Loan Program before it expires this week. In her remarks, Murray explained...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Tiffani Pye Williams to ten years and three months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft stemming from her participation in a tax fraud scheme. She was also ordered to pay $1,533,283 in restitution to the United States Treasury. Williams pleaded guilty on April 23, 2015.
